{"id":7695,"date":"2013-04-22T23:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T04:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2017-11-14T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T04:45:09","slug":"dennys-airport-boulevard-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7695","title":{"rendered":"Kettle Restaurant \/ Denny's, 2203 Airport Boulevard: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000431_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000431_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000431_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000432.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000432_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000432_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000432_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000433.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000433_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000433_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000433_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This almost vacant site on Airport Boulevard at the south-west corner of the Airport Boulevard\/I-26 interchange was definitely a restaurant, and not that long ago -- certainly into the late 1990s.  As I recall it was bought up and razed for some sort of road construction.<\/p>\n<p>I remember eating there a few times for late night fare, and was 100% positive that it was a <i>Denny's<\/i>.  However, I can't verify that in either the 1997 phonebook, or the 2005 one, and I'm not getting any definite google hits for a Denny's on Airport Boulevard (except in other cities).<\/p>\n<p>I'm not a big fan of <i>Denny's<\/i> -- somewhere there must be one with exceptional service and food that looks like the pictures, but I haven't found it yet.  They have their uses though -- I'm reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/thedevilspanties.com\/archives\/8337\">this web comic<\/a> (though it is for another late night institution).  I remember working a project on Fort Benning and the only good part of my day being when we hung it up at midnight and being able to have a grilled cheese sandwich on the way back to the hotel..<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, whatever they plan to do on this lot, it seems to be taking them a long time to do it.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 24 April 2013<\/b>:  Added a street address, took the question mark off of <i>Denny's?<\/i> and added the <i>Kettle Restaurant<\/i> based on the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This almost vacant site on Airport Boulevard at the south-west corner of the Airport Boulevard\/I-26 interchange was definitely a restaurant, and not that long ago -- certainly into the late 1990s. As I recall it was bought up and razed for some sort of road construction. I remember eating there a few times for late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2417,159,174,355,3],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2203-airport-boulevard","tag-airport-boulevard","tag-i-26","tag-late-night","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}