{"id":9651,"date":"2014-06-03T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2014-06-06T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:01:07","slug":"dinos-1801-decker-boulevard-25-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9651","title":{"rendered":"Hombre's \/ Dino's, 1801 Decker Boulevard: 25 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If I ever ate at Dino's<\/a>, it was probably in the 1960s. I have the vague feeling that we did stop there, but that was so long ago it's hard to be sure. Certainly that place, like Zesto<\/i> has the aesthetic of that era. I probably would have gone in the 1980s when I developed a taste for Greek Salad, but by that time I was living out of town.<\/p>\n

I don't know when the original \"Dino\" retired or sold the restaurant, but for many years it was run by Steve Kim. Tragically, Mr. Kim was murdered, at the restaurant, on 22 February 2011. This senseless crime was part of a bizarre spree by a career criminal who shot and killed himself as police finally caught up with him<\/a>. Mr. Kim's son-in-law stepped into the breach, and the family was able to re-open the restaurant<\/a> and carry on for several years. Now the place is closed once more, it it remains to be seen what will take its place.<\/p>\n

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

UPDATE6 June 2014<\/b> -- It turns out the place was called Hombre's<\/i> in the beginning, or at least before it was Dino's<\/i>. Hombre's<\/i> is in the 1970 phonebook and Dino's<\/i> is in the 1976 one, so it changed sometime before the mid 1970s.<\/p>\n

I have added the 1976 Bellsouth<\/i> ad for Dinos<\/i> and the 1970 ad for Hombre's<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1494,92,78,93,3],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1801-decker-boulevard","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-dentsville","tag-greek","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","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=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}