I've had a couple of things on my mind about the old stomping grounds that I couldn't satisfy through normal internet means, and thought maybe you could help.
Having attended Highland Park School from 1954 to 1958, I was scolded regularly for playing on the "Hinky-Dinks". The "Hinks", if you're unfamiliar, were long piles of dirt originally intended as elevation for a railroad line that was never built. I've managed over the years to learn a lot about the proposed railroad and its demise, but the thing that has nagged at me is the origin of the name "Hinky-Dinks". It had to mean something, once upon a time.
The other thing that I have sought in vain for, for a very long time, is a picture of the "BeefBurger". The "Beef" was a hamburger place in the Brooklawn Shopping Center in a building that was shaped like a hamburger. Try convincing some people that the place you hung out at as a teen was a building shaped like a hamburger.
Any of this sounds familiar? Is there hope?