This morning I was reading the Frankfort State-Journal's website online, which is something I don't usually do, but I was interested in what the Frankfort paper had to say about Beechwood's win over Frankfort High Friday night. As I was looking for THAT article online I saw another article that said that--after decades in business--the Cliffside Restaurant closed for good last weekend.
I remember as a teenager delivering hamburger on occasion to the Cliffside Restaurant, and I remember as an even younger child stopping there with Dad on the way home from the grocery store. He was making a delivery of hamburger as well, but my memory isn't focused on that. We both had an ice cream cone (I remember mine was butterscotch) and I wasn't supposed to tell Mom (Sorry, Dad, if I just got you in trouble. Lighten up on him, Mom. It was 35 years ago!).
Anyway, the closing of the restaurant makes me a little sad. Though I haven't been in there in 20 years, I always had fond thoughts of it (And I suspect that Cliffside Restaurant is the type of place that is much nicer in memory than in reality anyway). It's just another of the "old" Frankfort establishments that have gone away over time. Like Sweasy's Grocery, the Cliffside Restaurant was a relic from another era, when restaurants and towns had individual identities. Sweasy's Grocery was supplanted by a Kroger that looks just like the Kroger in Erlanger which looks just like the one in Louisville which looks just like the one in Batavia, and the Cliffside Restaurant was supplanted by an Applebee's that looks just like the one in Florence which looks just like the one in Lexington which looks just like the one in Crestview Hills.
Such is life.
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P.S. The comments at the bottom of the Cliffside article are really funny. Don't people have anything better to do than argue with one another online? On the other hand, I guess they could say, "Don't you have anything better to do than read the arguments of other people online?"
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