Advertising is more affordable for local merchants in the Central Valley than in the Bay Area I presume.
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Yes, good point. A single location store can efficiently buy local radio in a smaller geographic market because their market is the same as the stations market. A single location store in the San Francisco. Metro is paying for coverage from Santa Rosa down to the bottom at Gilroy and every point in between; so most of the coverage and cost is wasted, reaching people who would never drive to a single location, store or business in just one place in the market.
I really enjoyed the mellow rock format back when they were 'The Tide' KTID. Living in Sacramento at the time I listened to the simulcast on the AM 1510 daytimer signal, which was fairly listenable. I don't remember if they were 10 KW or 1 KW. I remember they also briefly did Adult Standards as 'Star 1510, after the demise of Magic 61.
The 1510 frequency has seen it's share of format changes through the years.
The 1510 frequency has seen it's share of format changes through the years.
You should checkout K-TIDE (KTYD) 99.9 Santa Barbara, by far one of the best Classic Rock stations, although they probably wouldn't want to call it that. Never the less it's perennially one of the best stations of its type. In my humble opinion better than KLOS or KGB.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And they have had plenty of time to refine and perfect the format. They first went AOR back in the mid-1970s.
Oh, this is a real place. I misread the original post as "Ted's Steakhouse" (from the Phil Hendrie show...)They lost their lease for the original (since 1955) on Powell and moved around the corner to Ellis Street in 2020:
Tad's Steakhouse - Union Square, San Francisco, CA
We hope you will enjoy your stay and get a chance to dine in our San Francisco dining institution. We've been a local dining favorite for over 70 years. Serving over 2 million steaks si...tadssf.com
It's nobody's idea of a great restaurant, with Forbes once having described it as "a step up from fast food."
JACK-FM (sort of)?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I think the esteemed Mr. Hendrie, when he was at KVEN/1450 in my home market of Oxnard-Ventura CA, got wind of what had been a long-established local eatery on Victoria Ave. called Ted's Sizzling Steaks. (KAAP, which everyone knows by now I programmed from late 1978 to mid 1981, had a trade account with them and I was allowed to use it for a late lunch after my shift about once every other week.)
It was very reasonably priced for the time and didn't overspend on the restaurant itself; even though not in a high rent area, it was decently sized and clean ... what we used to call a "family restaurant". They must have done well with their radio advertising -- they were on practically every station in the market, and had their own jingle -- because we still had the trade account when I left KAAP after an ownership change. (I didn't get to use the trade account at KBBQ/KBBY, where I landed next, unfortunately.)
It looks like they've spiffed up the new location. The old one was a bit dowdy though not awful. If I recall correctly, it was on two levels.
Fire at Steakhouse Blamed on Arson
A venerable east Ventura steakhouse was charred early Thursday morning in a $15,000 fire that authorities say was deliberately set.
www.latimes.com
After the fire, it became another steakhouse (DW's?) then a coin shop. It's a Starbucks now...
We see more than a few of them even on our visits to see the grandkids in Georgia.
One out of every 8 vehicles in the United States wears California license plates.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Fire at Steakhouse Blamed on Arson
A venerable east Ventura steakhouse was charred early Thursday morning in a $15,000 fire that authorities say was deliberately set.
After the fire, it became another steakhouse (DW's?) then a coin shop. It's a Starbucks now...
The damage from the 1997 arson was repairable. When the founder, Ted Will, passed away in 2005, the restaurant was sold and became DW's Country Cafe. The Ventura County Star reported in 2018 that the cafe moved to a strip mall on Johnson Dr. when the building (and another on the parcel housing a hot tub store) was to be torn down for the Starbucks; where did you get the reference to a coin shop from?
Google Street View back issues (click on "See More Dates")
Dec 2008 (the first really legible view) - DW's was anchoring a small strip mall on the property, along with a bail bonds store, a hair salon, and a chiropractor. The other building (a white A-frame) was a flower shop
Jun 2011 - The chiropractor's is now a tattoo parlor, a couple of other shops are abandoned/closed, and the A-frame houses a "We Buy Gold" outfit (possibly a coin and/or jewelry shop?)
May 2015 - DW's, Bail Bonds, Tattoos, and a new Live Scan (fingerprinting) shop. At the A-frame, there is a "grand opening" sign for "Hot Spring" (the hot tub store?)
No substantial change until Nov 2018, when two new buildings are seen going up. Starbucks opens where the A-frame was, while the second building (according to GSV) is unoccupied.
OK, I think I know more than I ever needed to know about DW's Country Cafe, Ted/Tad Steakhouse, or whatever....I lost track.
Well at least nobody brought up Harris' on Van Ness...Uh, oh.
It's in a totally different (but somewhat related) category, but I was also partial to Lori's Diner, which was one of those 50s-styled restaurant chains (given my somewhat unusual interest in 50s music, is anyone surprised by this?)
When I was young, my mother and I would go on lunch dates at the Sutter St location relatively often with someone she was doing some business with at the time.
There was also one over at Ghirardelli Square we went to once (must've been back in '03 or so), and there was a location in Concord for awhile that we never went to (it since became something else. I forget what).
Haven't looked around in years, nor have I been by the old Sutter St location since at least 2001 or 2002, but I suspect it went defunct quite some time ago.
As I'm writing this thread, it occurred to me that to better reflect much of what has been discussed in this thread, the title should be changed to something like, "Discussion of arcane San Francisco factoids and footnotes that time mostly forgot."
"560," while it's a nice, simple title that's easy to type, just doesn't cut it as an adequate descriptor.
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When I was young, my mother and I would go on lunch dates at the Sutter St location relatively often with someone she was doing some business with at the time.
There was also one over at Ghirardelli Square we went to once (must've been back in '03 or so), and there was a location in Concord for awhile that we never went to (it since became something else. I forget what).
Haven't looked around in years, nor have I been by the old Sutter St location since at least 2001 or 2002, but I suspect it went defunct quite some time ago.
As I'm writing this thread, it occurred to me that to better reflect much of what has been discussed in this thread, the title should be changed to something like, "Discussion of arcane San Francisco factoids and footnotes that time mostly forgot."
"560," while it's a nice, simple title that's easy to type, just doesn't cut it as an adequate descriptor.
c
Oddly enough, we had lunch at Harris Ranch on the drive back from San Simeon yesterday,
How does this work if you lease a car? My car has Scottish plates, because that's just where the leasing company is based so it's where the car is registered. If you go to Ireland, lots of cars outside Dublin have Dublin plates, often for the same reason. Is California just full of car lease companies?