{"id":863,"date":"2009-10-17T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=863"},"modified":"2010-04-11T00:39:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T05:39:27","slug":"the-hungry-i-1709-decker-boulevard-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"The Hungry I \/ Yum Yum&apos;s Oriental Restaurant, 1709 Decker Boulevard: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungry_i_pizza.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungry_i_pizza_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungryi01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungryi01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungryi02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hungryi02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/yum_yums_oriental_restaurant.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/yum_yums_oriental_restaurant_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'm pretty sure this pizza joint on Decker, now the <i>R & R Lounge<\/i> didn't make it through the 1970s, as I was very conscious of pizza, and think I would have noticed it driving (or riding) by.   On the other hand the location, in a little strip mall near Percival Road with not much parking probably would not have been very inviting.  (In fact, this section of Decker may have have come <i>up<\/i> since the 1970s).  The pictures are not great because the sun was against me, and I didn't want to stand right in front of that open door snapping away.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the merits of the pizza, I'm pretty sure I can safely say <a href=\"http:\/\/tralfaz-archives.com\/coverart\/K\/kingston_trio_hungry.html\">The Kingston Trio never gigged here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11 April 2010<\/b>:  <i>The Hungry I<\/i> was definitely gone by 1977, as that is when <i>Yum Yum's Oriental Restaurant<\/i> had a Bellsouth Yellow Pages ad for the same storefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm pretty sure this pizza joint on Decker, now the R &#038; R Lounge didn't make it through the 1970s, as I was very conscious of pizza, and think I would have noticed it driving (or riding) by. On the other hand the location, in a little strip mall near Percival Road with not much [&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-863","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\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}