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That Was The Week That Was: July 2020 3 comments
I'll Be Home For Christmas 1 comment
Back again.
Always nice to head somewhere warm during the Winter months. When your blood is getting too thin for South Carolina, you know you're getting old..
Don Pablo's Mexican Kitchen, 8717 International Drive (Orlando): October 2016 10 comments
Well, Don Pablo's continues to dwindle away to nothing. As I wrote here, I used to like to go to the Columbia Mall location. Then when that closed, I was working in Augusta and used to like to go to that location. Then that closed, and I would hit the Charleston location from time to time, then that closed and I would stop by the Charlotte location once or twice a year, then that closed, and I would try to go to the Arlington location when I was in DC on business (hard if I had no car..), then that job evaporated and I would stop by the Atlanta location once a year or so, then that closed and I would hit the Greenville location when I had a leisurely weekend, then that closed, but I figured I could still hit the Orlando location on one of my periodic runs through Florida..
Well, no more. Orlando closed in October after the chain filed for Chapter 11 on 4 October 2016, as I found well after the fact.
It wasn't a total loss, driving down International, I had seen another Mexican place, Chuy's, so I backed up to there and had an excellent chile relleno, probably the best one I've had since I was in San Antonio.
Oh, and I don't think I know of a good way to be fired
but this *definitely* is not it.
Borders Books, 1051 Sand Lake Road (Orlando): 2011 2 comments
Commenter Terry's remarks on the Hostess bankruptcy, and his list of other vanished American icons brought to mind once more Borders Books. I have posted before about the closed stores I found in Gainesville and Tampa.
Those stores have now been re-purposed. This store which I found in Orlando on Sandlake Road opposite a huge mall, as of August had not been. In fact, all the fixtures and some of the office equipment are still in place just as if the book supply truck could pull up any minute.
The distinctive look of a Borders puts me in a nostalgic mood, as though I might once more spend my Kansas City evenings there, drinking coffee and poring over racks of books I could never find in Columbia, Fayetteville or Aiken, or leafing through low circulation magazines I had known of only by repute until seeing them there.
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity-Jig 7 comments
Well, that was fun!
Normal posting should resume today barring any work emergencies piled up in the last 3 weeks.
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