#old restaurants

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Mom- cook your own breakfast.

The Village Voice - Feb 20, 1957

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The Oldest Restaurant In Every State [MAP] — VinePair

Today, there are new and exciting restaurants opening their doors every week, eager to serve their dishes to guests. But what about the esta

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Old restaurants.

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Somerset Hills Bars and Restaurants of the Past

Somerset Hills Bars and Restaurants of the Past

Every town in the world has restaurants and brothels that come and go. There’s always reasons why they come and go, but what remains is the history and the memories of what used to be.

The Somerset Hills has a great history or bars and restaurants that have come and gone. Some last the test of time, and others cave in to the change in attitude, trend, or a demographic shift. We’ll go back all the…

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Blast from the Past: The Forgotten Restaurants of Royal Caribbean

Blast from the Past: The Forgotten Restaurants of Royal Caribbean

As Royal Caribbean continues to roll out the new dynamic dining feature throughout their fleet, with a host of new eateries and dining options available, some of the line’s popular restaurants have been closed. Here we look at some of the Royal Caribbean’s past eateries as the doors have shut and as last orders are served.

Jade

Offering a selection of Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Indian cuisines;…

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You say you want a revolution?

(Richard Stacks, Baltimore Sun photo, June 14, 1964)

It revolved, once an hour.

When it opened in 1964, the revolving restaurant at the Holiday Inn (at Lombard and Howard streets) was called La Ronde.

The Holiday Inn was cool enough to host The Beatles when they played Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1964. Or at least it was close enough to the Civic Center.

The Sept. 15 edition of the Baltimore Sun ran a story, "Beatles Quit Baltimore," that gave a few details about the band's post-concert party at the Holiday Inn:

"Held at La Ronde, the hotel's top-of-the-building revolving restaurant, it apparently started at 33 r.p.m.'s and swung at 78.

There was a full-course prime ribs of beef dinner, cognac and brandy, with desserts and the Beatles' own hands-across-the-sea drink, which as every 14-year-old knows, is scotch and Coke-mixed."

When La Ronde opened, the developers of the Holiday Inn said it was the first revolving restaurant in the Northeast. A Baltimore Sun story published on the eve of its opening, explained how it was supposed to work:

"The revolving restaurant at Holiday Inn-Downtown will turn at the rate of one revolution an hour offering patrons a panoramic view of the harbor and other points of interest.

The exterior walls do not move and the kitchen which forms the core also is stationary."

Sometime in the early 1970s, the restaurant's name was changed to Circle One. It opened, and closed, at least twice.

Today, the rooftop facility at the Holiday Inn is used as a banquet facility, but it no longer revolves -- and hasn't for about 30 years.

But there is no record in the Baltimore Sun of when the rooftop restaurant took its fateful last spin, sometime around 1980. By then, Baltimore was in the thrall of its sparklingly renovated Inner Harbor, and people wanted to be on the ground, by the water, not looking at it from 12 stories above.

Click here to see then-and-now images of your favorite Old Baltimore restaurants, including Haussner’s, Martick’s, Marconi’s and more.

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Old political haunt.

{Annapolis, Maryland series. No. 11.}