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What were the previous businesses where LC Antiques & Time in Medford used to be? — Carol, via email The antique store and watch repair shop, best known for its bright green sign with a clock inside an oversized “Q,” is likely among the building’s more distinctive incarnations. The building, at 624 S. Riverside Ave., started in 1964 as a restaurant and later served as a credit union branch, according to Jackson County property records and the Mail Tribune library’s trove of Polk Directories and Bell Telephone books. The Sizzler Steak House opened in 1964, but it doesn’t appear to have been tied to the well known chain of Sizzler steak, seafood and salad bar spots — not to mention cheese toast — that we know today. The chain started in Culver City, California, in the 1950s, before becoming commonplace on the West Coast in the 1970s and ’80s. The 1964 Sizzler appeared to have been working from a similar playbook as the chain, however; it advertised “All Dinners at Family Prices” in the 1965 phone book. The restaurant’s similarity to the chain is a possible reason why the sibilant name didn’t last. By about 1969, the restaurant had changed its name to the Dinnerhorn Steak House, though proprietors remained the same — listed in Polk directories as Irv and Fay Lattimer. Owing to some gaps in our directory collection, when exactly the restaurant closed in the 1970s isn’t clear, but by 1980, the building was a Wood Products Credit Union branch, which had the building through the 1990s. For those who don’t closely follow the name changes of financial institutions, Wood Products Credit Union is now known as Northwest Community Credit Union. So, when did the Sizzler chain arrive? Medford residents have been ordering steaks and seafood from the counter at 700 Biddle Road since 1979. Send questions to “Since You Asked,” Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected].