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Yup. Johnnie's:

http://johnniespastrami.com/

There are folks who regularly drive all the way down from Santa Clarita to have a pastrami sandwich for dinner.

The kid's meals (yes... certain adults, too) come in a cardboard Chevy:



It's on Sepulveda near Washington Blvd. Just around the corner on Washington is the equally famous Tito's Tacos. People love Tito's though I've always had some trepidation about the mystery meat.

The Chuck Barris Culver City Hot Rod Show is May 12 this year. If you're into all things 1950s-60s, please visit Culver City and give Johnnie's a try.

Loves me a pastrami sandwich 2-3 times a year, but everyone's gotten so "lean-crazy." I need to have some bubbly, drippy FAT in there. TELL me they're not fat averse! It's the same with bacon - bacon that's too lean is like sex without the orgasm. A nice reminder of what you're there for, but not quite "it."

Johnnie's is not for the cholesterol/fat/salt-free. Pure indulgence. All such dreamy goodies and more can be found inside. I think this is why people come from Valencia. I make myself ride my bike out to the Marina, up to Will Rogers Beach, then back before I indulge. It's soooooo gooooood....

Come on down to the Chuck Barris Hot Rod show May 12- my wife is showing her top-fuel dragster (yes, my crazy wife is into drag racing, oy). We can do Johnnie's.

When I get out there someone will have to direct me to this place. We have a pretty good place for Pastrami sandwiches here but their specialty is the Ruben. And every sandwich comes with a delicious Potato Pancake. I always get the pastrami and put the pancake on the sandwich. Put some Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard on it...lip smackin' good!


http://izzys.com/menu.php

Just think - when they start playing rap music in elevators, you'll be old too.

What would Wiz Khalifa played by Mantovani sound like?

Oh God! Sad to say but, at one time in my career, I worked for the local Muzak company. Yes, it was I that switched tapes. Until they automated. My first job in Talk radio was with the AM part of my employers operation. The FM was upstairs where my mentor was the voice of the "Easy listening" station. The FM version of Muzak. Ugh! But the good part was, the checks didn't bounce.

Me too during college. Background music and sound support systems. Relay logic was a many mysteried thing. Splicing tape with bits of tin foil to trigger switching reels. And the guys that invented multitrack tape cartridge mechanisms stayed up nights.

To answer my own question - Wiz will probably translate fine to elevator music.

Wow! I could actually listen to that. In fact, I was hearing it as a smooth jazz piece.

Me too. That kid is good. I liked what he's doing.

Even Back and Yellow could be elevator music.

I think that in the hands of the right musician almost any piece can be transposed to fit a different genre. II almost got fired once for playing Michael Jackson in a Jazz format. Then a week later a album came in with that same song done by a jazz artist. Kinda made me look clairvoyant.

This comes up from time to time on Stephanie's show, but my grandmother had one of these for us to play with in her house:


Time Bomb! by Milton Bradley!

I like that JK mentioned the topic of emulators.

If you want to relive memories of the past, you can emulate just about any older computer on a new one, or emulate older game consoles or arcade games on them as well. We've known since Turing it's possible to emulate hardware through software, and you can do it....

It's interesting how much programming energy goes into peoples' sense of nostalgia, but there is a warm fuzzy feeling to seeing the original Lode Runner from the 1980s boot up on your new shiny 2012 PC.... and it will run a lot smoother. (In fact, some of these games have to be artificially slowed down or they would run too fast on a new machine, even in emulation.)

Here's a site devoted to various Windows (and some Mac and Linux) emulation software.

http://www.emulator-zone.com/

It's even possible to emulate current gaming consoles, but of course, if you're getting ROM files of existing current games, you're almost certainly violating IP. And, of course, when you're emulating current as opposed to older hardware, there tends to be a speed slowdown.

BTW, this site used to have emulators for the old Atari 2600, 5200, consoles or 800 computer, etc., but they had to take them down not because the emulators were illegal but the Atari company is still around and said they couldn't use their name.

I had a Sega Genesis console back in the 90s, and it was fun to run the Genesis emulator on my Mac to replay some of those games, recently. The trick with any of these emulators is getting the ROM files for games, whose legal status is .... debatable.