{"id":8061,"date":"2013-08-08T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2014-01-21T23:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:12:02","slug":"international-house-of-pancakes-1031-assembly-street-late-july-2013-demolitionrebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8061","title":{"rendered":"International House of Pancakes, 1031 Assembly Street: Late July 2013 (demolition\/rebuild)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, while this was not unexpected (as commenter Jay raised the flag months ago), it was still a shock when I drove downtown the other night looking for some Harvest Grain & Nut Pancakes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I guess that over the years I have eaten at this IHOP<\/b><\/i> dozens of times. It was kind of like riding in an airplane to go in there: You were always sitting closer to someone else than you really wanted to be -- the positive spin would be \"intimate\", but the place was *tiny<\/i>*, and you never knew quite what sort of conversation you would be overhearing. Still I enjoyed my visits. The waitresses seemed to keep an eagle eye out for my glass needing a refill, and the fare was basic enough that it was always pretty good.<\/p>\n

The State has an article<\/a> on the tear-down and rebuilding of this IHOP<\/b><\/i>. Apparently it has been there since 1968, which sounds about right to me. The new building will be bigger and have a patio. From going by the site, it appears to me that they will be extending their site onto the vacant lot on Assembly<\/b> between the IHOP<\/b><\/i> and the neighbooring law office.<\/p>\n

This was the last classic look IHOP<\/b><\/i> in the Columbia area. The other one<\/a> was torn down in the early 2000s and not rebuilt.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Jay)<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 21 January 2014<\/b> -- Laissez les bon temps rouler!<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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Well, while this was not unexpected (as commenter Jay raised the flag months ago), it was still a shock when I drove downtown the other night looking for some Harvest Grain & Nut Pancakes. I guess that over the years I have eaten at this IHOP dozens of times. It was kind of like riding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","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=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}