Check out these cool photos from Taco Bell #1235 in Olathe KS, a suburb of Kansas City MO. The restaurant is now longer a Taco Bell (at 1157 East Santa Fe Street) but a new one is directly across from it.

The store opened May 20th, 1976 and had 38 seats. A drive-thru was added January of 1983. It’s fun to look at how the restaurants were decorated and run compared with how they are nowadays.

Dining Room 2 (1983-84) shows spanish tile on counter, dark woodgrain formica, and the new “Par Microsystems” cash registers. Gone were the old Sweda cash registers, where staff had to know the prices, and ring people up like a retail store!

Dining Room 4 (1986) was when striping had already been applied to the walls, in anticipation of replacing the tufted orange booths with the familiar tables with natural wood edges, and colors corresonding to these stripes, still in use in many locations. Our stripes were green and orange. Some locations had blue and peach, etc.

Real case of lettuce heads, being prepped the old way, thru a Hobart machine with slicer blade.

Who doesn’t want to go back to a simplier time…a time when all you had to worry about was a little homework, how to flirt with girls and not turn red-faced, whether or not to watch The Secret World of Alex Mack or go skateboard in the front yard.

I miss so much about that time. Coming home and having to decide between Pizza Rolls or Bagel Bites, watching Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, TGIF, Snick!, Saved By The Bell, Fresh Prince, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life….I could go on and on. Who didn’t think they could come out victorious on Double Dare, Guts, Wild & Crazy Kids or Legends of the Hidden Temple?

Having to choose between playing on the 14-foot trampoline, swimming, skateboarding, playing with the sling shot, the sweet R/C cars, or the awesome board games like Mouse Trap, Jenga, Operation, Hungry Hippos, Clue, Monopoly or Break the Ice.

Eating all the great snacks like Fruit Roll-Ups, Ritz Crackers, Fruit By The Foot, Big League Chew, Top Ramen, Butterfingers, Girl Scout cookies, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cookie Crisp, Fruity Pebbles…I really could just go on and on and on about everything from my childhood…I loved it and miss it so much. So rather than continue to just rant and rave about what I miss, how about some awesome videos that show a lot of it.

What do you miss most from this time period?

You Childhood in 94 Seconds

Remembering the 90′s

90′s Toys

Awesome 90′s commercial

Best Cartoons of the 90′s