Banana's Steak House v2 - Oak Lawn, IL - Vintage Restaurant - Unisex Hoodie rr_track_halloween A distressed green baseball glove

A distressed green baseball glove sits centered between a green interlocking "GS" monogram on the left and a green baseball on the right

Baseball in small-town Illinois back then wasn't entertainment

Before air conditioning or major league broadcasts

Mikey's two-day rule lasted about forty-five seconds before he speed-dialed his way into answering machine infamy

Banana's Steak House v2 - Oak Lawn, IL - Vintage Restaurant - Unisex Hoodie rr_track_halloween A distressed green baseball gloveBanana's Steak House stood at 9401 South Cicero in Oak Lawn, Illinois, the kind of place that defined suburban dining through the 1970s and 1980s. Steakhouses like this one anchored their neighborhoods, where regulars knew the staff by name and celebrations always meant the same corner booth. Oak Lawn held onto places like Banana's because they were irreplaceable. Part of our Vintage Restaurant collection, celebrating the classic American menus of