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🗓️ 16 August 2025
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One of the shortest-lived fast food chains came and went in the late 1960s.
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0:47.4 | Thank you. In the 1960s, Southern California was home to one of the more unusually themed dining experiences, |
0:55.0 | and one of the most short-lived road into town in 1969, the Lone Ranger Family Fast Food Restaurant. |
1:00.3 | Writing the popularity of the beloved masked hero from the TV show, The Lone Ranger, |
1:09.3 | which aired on ABC from 1949 to 1957, which was actually a pretty long time from 1957 to 1969. |
1:10.5 | So they were really banking on. |
1:12.3 | They really went for it. |
1:14.2 | I mean, they were like, it's been 12 years since the show has been on, iconic as it is. |
1:18.6 | Yeah. |
1:18.9 | Listen, we know it's in the zeitgeist now. |
1:21.3 | We think, we hope. |
1:22.9 | How about this? |
1:24.7 | Fast food. |
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