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.

I love Elmo and I love Taco Bell. What do you get when the little red guy decides to take a trip down to the home of the cheesy chalupa supreme? This hilarious incident.

The only problem I see here is that he did not order any Fire sauce. You’ve got to, always, order a whole bag of the stuff. I personally ask for a boat load so that I can horde them in my office drawer so as to have them on hand to be used on everything and anything, it’s that good.