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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 2186481, member: 504"] I haven't been there in decades, but Harry's Place had always been hands down the best tasting burger, probably 35% fat. It used to be only burgers and cheese burgers, but from the description they've modernized a little. At Harry's you always got burgers with bees swarming the picnic tables. But at the time it was on the main road from the Hartford area to the shore East of the river, there would be totally empty places in Colchester and Harry's was packed. That was 1950's and 60's. They tried a franchise on Asylum St. in Hartford near Main maybe late 70s early 80s that didn't last. True story. When Rt. 2 was being constructed, for many years, it stopped on one side of Colchester and began again on the other. The reason was so as not to by-pass Harry's. Why? The owner of Harry's was a gentleman named Ruby Cohen (no relation) who also happened to be a state legislator. Funny how that worked. [/QUOTE]