Adam Sobolak

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:23:18 -0500

Ah, what blog posts can do--it sparked me to notice today that the Casa Lisboa sign on Augusta in Kensington is almost certainly a cousin to the Mothers sign...

Chester Pape

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:44:13 -0500

There was a Mother's location on Yonge, between Bloor and Davenport, no concert at the Masonic Temple was complete without a Mother's submarine before or after.

David Toronto

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:42:21 -0500

I remember Mothers and ate there sometimes but my favourite was the Crest Grill. There was where the taxi drivers ate and the bagels and cream cheese was a treat. Their specialty was rice pudding. Restaurants in that area in the early '70s served honest and real food at reasonable prices. The Hungarian restaurants on Spadina near Baldwin were very filling for $3.00. Mothers was capitalising on the woes of Mr. Submarine who tried to expand too quickly and found that loan repayments were exceeding revenues from the newly opened stores. Mr. Submarine was just getting going then and most people were not familiar with it hence Mothers fortune. An assorted cold cut with double meat would cost about $2.00 at that time, the single assorted being $1.25. A case of beer was about $5.00. *sigh* Thems were the days.

Torontoist: A Motherly Sign

Adam Sobolak

Chester Pape

David Toronto