Burger Chef next to Sierra Jr. High
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:06 am
This was my first burger place that I used MY money to buy a hamburger! My family had been driving up to the McDonalds on Shields and Blackstone for the occasional dinner menu change, I guess that is where I got my first taste of fast food burgers. When I started Sierra Jr. High, I convinced my best friend to occasionally go without spending our lunch money at the cafeteria and instead, drop by Burger Chef on the way home from school. The campus was closed to leaving for lunch so that was our only option if we wanted to buy our own burger. We would have to eat dinner with the family in a couple of hours after school but we always had room for both. I found a couple of pictures of the way the restaurant used to look. I’m not sure when it actually closed. The first picture is how the sign looked from Cedar and the next one is representative of the layout with the central front door as the only entrance.
The only bad thing about the place is that since it was central to both McLane students as well as Sierra Jr. High students and that must of been the reason that there where a lot of fist fights there. I remember one huge one in particular that I got caught in, sad really. Of course by today's standards, nobody ever got shot so I guess it was only minor disturbances. But tell that to the tooth I got knocked out. However, the burgers and french fries were great.
The only bad thing about the place is that since it was central to both McLane students as well as Sierra Jr. High students and that must of been the reason that there where a lot of fist fights there. I remember one huge one in particular that I got caught in, sad really. Of course by today's standards, nobody ever got shot so I guess it was only minor disturbances. But tell that to the tooth I got knocked out. However, the burgers and french fries were great.