It's that time.

Time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Berry Show is on the air.

Today, Michael Berry Show is sponsored by Victoria Station.

Victoria Station was a chain of railroad-themed steakhouse restaurants.

And at the peak of its popularity in the 1970s,

the chain had 100 locations in the United States.

The very first location, however, was opened in San Francisco in December of 1969.

The restaurant was constructed out of five box cars and two cabooses around a central lobby service area.

A fellow could walk right in and order prime rib, a steak, or even shrimp.

You can barbecue it, boil it, braille it, bake it, saute it.

There's shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fry, deep fry, stir fry.

There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, apple shrimp.

Shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich.

That's about it.

The restaurant was grossing $90,000 monthly during its first year of operations.

Now, I went and done did the math on that.

That has the buying power of roughly $750,000 today.

But that success didn't last forever.

They closed the last restaurant here in America in 2017.

Now, if you ever get yourself a hankering for some Victoria Station,

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