B-R-RADFORD: Still using your electric blanket these “dog days”
of summer? For July – and even by Bradford standards – it’s been
pretty chilly around here this so-called summer.

So consider this: Donald Comes of Route 46, Crosby, tells us he
had a temperature of 34 degrees on Wednesday morning. In fact, ice
crystals were forming.

We know it’s snowed before in June. In fact, readers have
verified snow in every month except July and August. If this keeps
up, we might break that record!

CARROLS: Dave Rathfon of Bradford has another follow-up on the
Carrols restaurant once located where Burger King now sits.

Dave, who was the manager at the Bradford location before moving
to other restaurants in the chain, writes: “Carrols Development
Corp. still exists today controlling the largest number of
franchise Burger Kings.”

“Two of the television commercials that they filmed in my
Carrols in Westport, Conn., was first, the ad campaign for the
‘roast beef hero’ sandwich and the other was for a trial run on
‘crispy chicken,’ which had a trial run in the Syracuse, N.Y.,
area. The chicken commercial had a World War vintage tank, half
painted orange and lime green (Carrols logo colors) with a
weird-looking, chicken-dressed guy coming out of it. Carrols Crispy
Country Chicken just could not compete with KFC.

“My wife, Mary Ann Yaros Rathfon from Bradford, was in both
television commercials as a counter/cashier girl. She was a second
assistant manager at the Carrols in Norwalk, Conn. She had to sign
a release paper for the commercials because she was not a member of
Screen Actors Guild and could not get paid!

“Do the RTS readers remember that Carrols also had a burger
called The Brute which was like the Burger King Whopper?

“During the Oil Centennial in 1971 in Bradford, I came up with
idea to serve a green milkshake, which, I got green food coloring
to add to the vanilla milkshake from my Aunt Ruth and Uncle Fred
Johnson, owners of the Davis Bakery. The name of the green shake
was ‘The Gusher’ which the name was Mary Ann’s idea, who worked for
J.C. Penneys (ad and display department) in the Bradford Mall. The
Gusher shake was a one-time deal only served at the Bradford
Carrols!

“Carrols restaurants still exist in the country, Finland.”