{"id":10845,"date":"2015-11-23T02:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T07:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2015-11-23T02:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T07:15:38","slug":"planet-hollywood-2915-hollywood-drive-myrtle-beach-7-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10845","title":{"rendered":"Planet Hollywood, 2915 Hollywood Drive (Myrtle Beach): 7 September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Planet Hollywood<\/i> in Myrtle Beach was always an interesting building to drive by. I thought it looked a bit like an elephant \"hoovering up\" (as our Brit friends might say) customers from the parking lot through that trunk-like canopy and into the elephant's head. There also seem to be some scary teeth involved.<\/p>\n

In the event, though I drove by many times, I only ate at Planet Hollywood<\/i> once. I'm guessing it was back in the 90s, and I had an unobjectionable, but completely unexceptional hamburger. I have heard in recent years rumors that the place was in financial trouble, and I can only guess that people wised up to the fact that a burger's proximity to Bruce Willis's tennis shoes or whatever does not make it worth $15 -- the place limped through the 2015 Labor Day weekend and threw in the towel on the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The night pictures above were taken on 3 May 2012, while the post-closing pictures below are from 3 October 2015, a gray day coming just before the bottom dropped out on 4 October (though it was not anywhere near as bad on the Waccamaw Neck as in Columbia). I find it interesting that while they did not spend a lot of effort destroying the celebrity handprints around the building, they *did<\/i>* spend considerable time defacing the nameplates that would have told whose hands they were. (Though they did miss a few).<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to my sister)<\/p>\n

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