{"id":1114,"date":"2009-12-04T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-11-03T01:50:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:50:43","slug":"gooney-birds-sports-grill-2250-sunset-boulevard-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Gooney Birds Sports Grill, 2250 Sunset Boulevard: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/p1070842.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/p1070842_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/p1070843.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/p1070843_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had just turned out of <i>Grecian Gardens<\/i> on the adjacent block when I remembered about <i>Gooney Birds<\/i> and decided to get a few pictures.  Of course that was after supper -- perhaps I'll add a day shot the next time I'm in the area and think about it.<\/p>\n<p>I only ate at <i>Gooney Birds<\/i> once.  I had a burger, and it was perfectly acceptable, but not something so incredibly good that I would pass dozens of other burger places to get over there.  I don't recall much about the decor now, but at this remove, I'm wondering if the eponymous 'Gooney Birds' could have been <i>The Gamecocks<\/i> -- most years it seems as though it would fit well enough.<\/p>\n<p>As do many buildings fitted out as restaurants, <i>Gooney Birds<\/i> has found new life as a Chinese Restaurant.  (The other possibility would be a <i>Lizards Thicket<\/i>, but there was already one of those in the same parking lot :-)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 3 Nov 2010<\/b> -- Here's a daylight picture, finally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180129.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180129_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just turned out of Grecian Gardens on the adjacent block when I remembered about Gooney Birds and decided to get a few pictures. Of course that was after supper -- perhaps I'll add a day shot the next time I'm in the area and think about it. I only ate at Gooney Birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}