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(The Atlantic Cities)   Long after Pizza Hut abandoned their iconic red-hut restaurants, one blogger makes it his life's mission to document all buildings that used to be a Pizza Hut. "They can't really hide from their past"   ( theatlanticcities.com) divider line
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WorkingInParadise
2014-01-14 09:06:55 AM  
UTBAKFC (in case you were wondering)

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hugheric
2014-01-14 09:17:03 AM  
I remember being terribly hungover and driving up and down Mass Ave all mother licking day trying to find the KFC that google insisted was there.  I finally stopped to turnaround in a bank parking lot and noticed the striking resemblance in architecture the bank had to a KFC.  That was the day I realized there was no god.
 
Mokmo
2014-01-14 09:47:16 AM  
Just sent that blogger a few google maps links of some of the restaurants that were lost in the great pizza purge of Quebec City. 
Well not that great, but basically franchisee who owned them all went under, only one or two were bought by managers.
 
fonebone77
2014-01-14 10:55:14 AM  

emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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My grandfather used to own an old Nickerson Farms.  My mom worked there when she was a kid.  My aunt eventually bought it and tried to run it as a museum/gas station but it was in a weird place that no one ever really stopped at.  Its now a vinyard and winery front and it seems to do pretty well in that roll.
 
TV's Vinnie
2014-01-14 11:13:10 AM  

Omahawg: the carne asada burrito, tv vinnie! DO IT!

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Me no likie having an "ass volcano".
 
TV's Vinnie
2014-01-14 11:20:48 AM  
Strip malls deprive us of this timeless experience. Last year I went to a Smashburger and went back recently to the exact same spot to see that it's a Pepperjax now. The only external visual change was the sign.

Also, now that Quizno's is going under, a lot of former franchises are now vacant. Our's was taken over by a local start-up called Mad Ox Bakery and there are still some signs of it's former tenant's presence, like the color schemes of the walls.

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RatBomb
2014-01-14 12:10:00 PM  
Anybody know what this restaurant is? They blurred out that one sign...

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InterruptingQuirk
2014-01-14 12:16:35 PM  

RatBomb: Anybody know what this restaurant is? They blurred out that one sign...

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Common error you find Google street view making when it thinks it has encountered a license plate or a persons face.
 
peacheslatour
2014-01-14 12:22:20 PM  

fonebone77: emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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My grandfather used to own an old Nickerson Farms.  My mom worked there when she was a kid.  My aunt eventually bought it and tried to run it as a museum/gas station but it was in a weird place that no one ever really stopped at.  Its now a vinyard and winery front and it seems to do pretty well in that roll.


I have to know, what kind of museum was it?
 
RatBomb
2014-01-14 12:28:12 PM  

InterruptingQuirk: RatBomb: Anybody know what this restaurant is? They blurred out that one sign...

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Common error you find Google street view making when it thinks it has encountered a license plate or a persons face.


Oh.  Well, that's no fun...
 
InterruptingQuirk
2014-01-14 12:46:13 PM  

RatBomb: InterruptingQuirk: RatBomb: Anybody know what this restaurant is? They blurred out that one sign...

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Common error you find Google street view making when it thinks it has encountered a license plate or a persons face.

Oh.  Well, that's no fun...


Sometimes they can be. Wrap your head around waht's going on here:

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Contrabulous Flabtraption
2014-01-14 12:57:05 PM  
This is both idiotic and interesting.
 
madgordy
2014-01-14 01:22:11 PM  
In Seattle
Shakeys = Korean
Pietros Gold Coast = Japanese
Pizza Hut =  vacant

Old IHOP = Thai
Old Arby's = Indian
Old Wendy's = Vietnamese
Old KFC = Churches FC

the pizza huts in Burien, Des Moines, Federalway and Kent have all gone under
 
zez
2014-01-14 01:44:27 PM  

emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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I still see abandoned ones on the old highways next to the interstate, I always thought they were Stuckey's though, or were they called different things in different places?
 
valkore
2014-01-14 02:03:17 PM  

WorkingInParadise: UTBAKFC (in case you were wondering)

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Okay, I love that one.  Somebody had to make the decision on whether to take down the bucket, or just paint it white.  I can't believe taking it down would have been more costly or time consuming than painting it white, so why wasn't it taken down?  Maybe the dude wanted to slap a banner on it at some point?
 
The Flexecutioner [TotalFark]
2014-01-14 02:08:37 PM  

emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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almost like the old Howard Johnson restaurants I remember.  i think we had one in Louisville in the 80s and 90s but i have no idea if it was still there.
 
skrame
2014-01-14 02:11:18 PM  

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Pizza Hut may not have the best pizza, but their breadsticks are amazing. Best chain pizza breadsticks hands down.


NO!

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Mr. Shabooboo
2014-01-14 02:14:25 PM  

adeist69: Mr. Shabooboo: ultraholland: enthralledgeishagirl: There's a freaking McDonalds in Dachau? I'm going to go punch someone. Seriously, that is farked up.

Yes, the town. No good place to eat within the concentration camp. I just thought it was amusing that this was the first thing I saw getting off the train at Frauenhoferstrasse; those small pictures on the right are of the concentration camp, so I took this as a corporate endorsement.

So you can't get a pizza fresh from the oven?


/Yes, that is a tasteless joke..


Truly tasteless, now go wash your mouth out with soap.

/wait for it.......


That joke has also been rendered tasteless...

/just like Mrs Gruenwald
 
LV426
2014-01-14 05:14:00 PM  

emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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OMG!!!! Never been but the one located in Picacho Peak AZ had it's roof collapse a few weeks ago. Never made into anything else. When it closed it stayed that way. No one ever tried to do anything with it and time plus vandals took their toll.  It's a sad shadow of it's former self.

The only Pizza Hut within 40 miles that had a buffet closed and was turned into a coffee place. Still mourning it's passing.

And why is every old Taco Bell building in Tucson now a check cashing place????
 
groppet [TotalFark]
2014-01-14 05:43:25 PM  

seancdaug: For many years starting in the 1930s, the Baltimore/Washington area had its own local burger stand called Little Tavern. It was very similar in style to White Castle, with an emphasis on slider-sized burgers ("buy 'em by the bag," the motto went). By the early 1990s, they started to disappear, but old locations are ridiculously easy to spot due to the restaurants' small size (barely more than a shed) and iconic, green-roofed "Tudor house" styling.

Because of the unique architecture, there's really not many things you can repurpose an old "Club LT" into, and the majority have wound up as donut shops, or cheap Chinese restaurants. And a couple of Subways, I think, since apparently you can franchise a Subway into any building with at least two and a half walls.

http://agilitynut.com/eateries/lt.html


Yeah the one in Bethesda was turned into a Chinese place and they painted the roof yellow. The one in Wheaton lasted a while but they tore it down. On the wall next to it they found an ad for the company that had the building next to it before that had been painted on in the 50s. Looked pretty cool I think it was for a paint shop. But they ended up painting hte little tavern on a mural across the street at the metro station.
 
cynicalminion
2014-01-14 06:00:25 PM  
also:
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and:
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one of the latter here in town is a "you're not fooling anyone" furniture store...
 
cfreak [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2014-01-14 06:15:17 PM  

12349876: Shadow Blasko: Holiday Inn "Holidomes"

That would be a fun challenge now.  Holiday Inn quit branding 1 and 2 story hotels a little while back.


There's one in Lubbock TX. I'd never even heard of such a thing but they had a good deal on a room when I was there visiting family at Thanksgiving.

Pretty empty and old looking though. Doubt it will exist that way much longer.
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2014-01-14 06:20:32 PM  
The Pizza Hut that I can almost spit on from my house is still the "hut" style building.
 
Optimal_Illusion
2014-01-14 09:11:19 PM  

Gotfire: emersonbiggins: Nickerson Farms, anyone?  You've all seen one somewhere.

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There's one on interstate 35 in Texas near the Oklahoma border that is now a pr0n store with a huge "XXX" emblazoned on the roof.   It's for the truckers who like to get their jack off on while hauling garbage to put on the shelves of your local Wal Mart.

I've seen that one!  I need to go visit the place some time, just to see if the inside matches the promise of the outside.
 
Tio_Holtzmann
2014-01-15 08:40:47 AM  

violentsalvation: ultraholland: violentsalvation: Ah, Nürnburger King.

I lost it when I saw this at Dachau

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Arbeit McFries


Hahahaha! God bless you. That's horrible and I appreciate it.
 
Tio_Holtzmann
2014-01-15 08:45:16 AM  

belhade: Tony Hawk's truck was a Pizza Hut, your argument is invalid.


Goddamn, f*cker, that gleaming the cube reference came out of nowhere. I salute you.
 
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