They closed because DQ corporate wants all DQ locations to serve hot food. The location was too small for hot food prep. So, corporate DQ would not let them open.
Such a cute little building. I love the walk up windows. Dont see old school DQs like this any more. From what you shown, the equipment does not look that old. Now the reason for the 2 power meters are, 1 is for the main building power, and the other meter is for the HVAC heating and air conditioning. Most of these older buildings did not have natural gas so you had to have electric heat, and electric heat uses a lot of electric current so the main meter service was not ample enough so they added a dedicated electric service just for the heating and air. The 2 meters on this dq are just basic Itron Centron meters. I have many in my collection. I love the fact you bowl on AMF lanes. AMF pinsetters are the best in the business. Now Brunswick pinsetters are junk. I have worked on many. Dont like Brunswick at all. Great video.
The McD's where I used to work is that same type of building. It used to have an outdoor play place, but they took it out, expanded the front end and installed a huge indoor play place. I'll have to get a picture of it. We have two if those taco bells like that. The other one is a newer one. I miss Arby's. Ours closed like a decade ago.
Well up in keokuk iowa their McDonalds isnt the same anymore the building they made it look crappy I miss the old one they had I mean the red brick floors and the seats they had is the swivel seats and a spot to have a party and the whole place was handicap friendly.
*We had our DQ close in Foxborough "due to an emergency." Never found out the emergency, and one day the signs just disappeared as well as all the drive thru menu boards. Never to reopen. Equipment was all left for the longest time.*
I swear when I visited Greentree last year to see my uncle last that Dairy Queen was open! Can't believe it's closed, we went there all the time. Great video as usual!
Good morning Wallie! Great video, sad to know this Dairy Queen closed! I know you would have liked to own that sign, but you had respect and left it there! Thanks for another great video, and have a great day! 🍨🎂😀
There is a very small DQ in Jackson Center (a tiny little town in Mercer County, PA) that actually has a Brazier in it! Also I enjoyed seeing the old school aesthetics McDonald’s. They renovated the one in my town to look like a “Starbucks,” too. And the Pizza Hut in my town is still a dine-in with a weekday lunch buffet and as well as Tuesday/Wednesday night buffets.
All of ours at Colorado Springs save one we’re converted to grey or dark grey boxes that were not as brightly lit as before. The one exception was one that had been remodeled on the outside to a 50’s-60’s era appearance on the outside (the inside had been remodeled again in late 2019 and was due to reopen inside when the COVID hit, it finally has allowed inside dining in the last few weeks).
We had a dine in Pizza Hut like that one here in Orem, UT. I think it closed about 10-15 years ago. It sat vacant for quite some time. It was finally demolished about 5 years ago and now there is a chic-fil-a there now.
I work at a dairy queen and the one I work at is on route 19 going towards Cranberry in one direction and going towards Zelienople in the other direction.
I 100% agree with you on the Pizza Hut restaurants. I enjoyed going there because they also had a salad bar that you could get with the pizza buffet .Now I think they're way overpriced and under fed. compared to what they used to be. Remember when Wendy's had a salad bar .. it was fantastic one of the best salad bars. You would think with healthier eating today all these restaurants would be bringing back the salad bars but they seem to all gone by the wayside, that's really ashame too. Keep up the great videos and love you love for the older vintage styles.
There’s a dine in Pizza Hut with lunch buffet still going in Newton,IA . Our older 70s style Mc Donald’s building got torn down summer 2017 and got rebuilt as one of the newer style buildings and has an touchscreen pop machine now. It opened sometime in November that year.
yesterday i saw out a Hardee's window an abandoned old school BP with the BP logo and Welcome sign still painted on the canopy. Didn't see if the sign by the road was stripped. most likely not since most of them are left untouched unless turned into something else. It looked like it could of been open but i need of a new coat of paint like some of the unrenavated 2000 BP's with the newer green sunflower logo. I believe it had an auto center instead of a convenience store although i could be confusing it with one i found on google maps.
Good video, 2 thumbs up. Funny how that Dairy Queen is just ice cream. I never seen one of those. The ones here in TX are fast food and ice cream. Thanks for the video, cool stuff. Also, Happy Belated Birthday.
Cool I grew up bowling in a League for NASA here in Maryland Yes showing my age, we bowled duckpin vs ten pin. Duckpin Bowling was invented in Baltimore Maryland :)
👍 I think many companies learned from Pizza Hut that brand-franchised unique buildings are hard to resell and harder to modify without spending a bundle. To this day, I see chiropractor offices, donut shops, nail salons, etc. in former Pizza Hut Buildings and you Just Know what used to be there . . . and that they sadly went out of business. In my area too they are building replacements of former eateries in the said grey boxes. They can just take the old signage down and slap a new sign up and call it Done if they want. I don't even think people WallieB26's age or younger could pick out an old Pizza Hut Store . . . just like tape decks or albums for some.
There is an OLD Dairy Queen on route 8 as you head to Butler. I'm sure you've seen it before. You need to take Kayla and go take pictures. Lol. As far as I know, they're still operating. They were last fall.
Well pizza hut owners have been going through chapter 13 and selling and closing their buildings and so has McDonalds and dairy queens it's sad really.but now theres a jewelry store or company is closing now call jared/zales..
@corey the nomadic maintenance guy Well Jared is part of zales.but quincy mall is losing stores right and left for pass a few years now and zales.and Jared are the last anchor stores in that mall now if they go that mall is so totally screwed that mall has been around longer than the keokuk iowa mall..
I kinda wonder if maby the fire marshal shut them down for only having one exit and they were getting ready to remodel and the cost was just too much. We still have dine in pizza huts here in New Mexico and they still have buffets and are upgraded also
What you said on this video reminds me of the restaurants where I live. They all look alike and are too small. One of our McDonald's is little. Thanks to the pandemic some are closed except for the drive thru windows.
I know, we went to a Pizza Hut in Columbus, Ohio and they didn't have a dining room. We still have a dining room in Pizza Hut here in Cambridge, Ohio. Talking about Cambridge, they tore the Kmart gas station down. It tore at my heart.
I work part time at a McDonalds....it still looks like this, with a “coffee shop” look on the inside. I actually just filmed the outdoor shopping complex that it’s in...not sure if I’ve made it public yet.
What a cool looking DQ! I wonder what happen why they never reopen it? Where I live they update/renovated the McDonalds. We used to have one that looks like that one in this video.
Uhh there’s a ton of dine-in Pizza Huts all newly remodeled down here in North Carolina. There are still a ton of old-school McDonalds down here too! Might wanna come check some out! (Don’t eat at Pizza Hut... It’s really bad down here! Their buffet is so old.. Moldy salad!)
We have a taco bell here, that is the first original design. They closed it down, and moved it to a new plain design building. That old one is still there to this day.
My local McDonalds got remodeled twice (2010 & 2016) and I agree that they're starting to look more like a Starbucks right now. Looks like the one behind the abandoned Dairy Queen had a lucky escape though hehe! XD
I have visited here in a dream...but I've never physically been there.....but the dairy queen and the McDonald's just how everything looks was exactly how it was in my dream....the Dairy queen is identical
Its gotta be a western Pennsylvania thing, the Pizza Hut’s here in eastern Pennsylvania seem to be doing really good. Most of them are eat in with a buffet
South Central PA. Ours are still eat in, but the one with the buffet closed a couple of months ago and only had a buffet sporadically. It was a "call before you come" basis to see if they were even doing the buffet.
Yes I'll take Butterscotch Ice Cream cone, oh wait they stopped offering those years ago. There is small DQ by my dads house I'll have to take a picture of it next time. Omg that old school McDonald's is beautiful.
For example if they're going to reopen that Dairy Queen for example they would have to do a thorough cleaning before they would reopen that if they were going to reopen that store
I went to a DQ without indoor dining like that in Pittsburgh. I almost thought this was the one until I checked the upload date that was before I went there in July 2020
Yes you are very much right. These restaurants are getting rid of there old look that made each place unique. Now you starting to see bland looking buildings with no style to them. Seems like a dull light brown is the new look. Along with a dull since of customer service.
My small town used to have a Dairy Queen until we got a McDonald’s came to town and cut into their business. It was turned into a bank and is now abandoned. People here really want a Dairy Queen back and almost got one but it ended up not working out for some reason. As for our McDonald’s it was really cool it was decorated with our high schools colors and had a display for old McDonald’s collectibles now it is just like all the other bland McDonald’s.
I remember the old taco bells of the seventies and the ones back then look more like an adobe type of building and that was before they started using the Bell as a logo the old logo was a Mexican wearing a sombrero with an Afghan over his shoulders having a siesta too bad you were not around in the 1970s because in the 1970s you got to see fast food places and so forth that some of them still had their mid-1960s look the whole way up to at that time 1970s current look.
My cousin is a manager at the McDonalds one day I dropped her off and looked around the DQ and no signage remained. I am not from the area and thought it might have been the previous location of the ice cream shop across the street
Hi Wallie, Can you try to make a video at the Chambersburg Mall in Scotland PA (A outskirt of Chambersburg).It is one dying and hurting mall indeed Thank You
I would like to reach out to the owner to see if they would be interested to sell this building. Please help me if you can. Any one here knows who owns this building?
I have a Dairy Queen near me that still has the promotional "Brazier Burger" sign up! And its still open! Plus i believe this is the oldest design you can find for the "Brazier Burger" sign. The inside still has that 1970s style walls, booths, and overall feel. The roof is a pretty faded though, and the letters for the address are falling off, but the sign is still in pretty good shape. Heres the place if you are interested : www.google.com/maps/@39.3395086,-82.1038351,3a,81.2y,321.3h,90.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6pq3khrdL9HsgZoZdtA-QQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Edit: just to say the reason this is such a big deal for me is because all the DQs serve hot food, but back in the 1960s/1970s, most of them served cold foods, and the Brazier Burger promo was to let people know that they served hot foods, so now the sign is pretty much pointless, and now becoming harder and harder to find these old promotional signs, especially these older styles of signs.
Every single building seems to be made from the same cookie-cutter mold anymore. I actually get confused as to what store is what sometimes. I also miss the small ice cream only Dairy Queens, they really had character to them. We live in such a sterile, bland present day.
We had an old 90s style DQ in my town that shut down and moved to an abandoned KFC so they could serve hot fod and the KFC was big enough due to there being a buffet line in it so they moved and now the old DQ is a bank, good memories in that old, moldy DQ
We have 2 dine in Pizza Huts here. I didn't know they were doing away with them. Our eastside Taco Bell is just like that one, the westside one were I go is a shoebox.
You LOVE Kit Kat blizzards too? I do too! My favorite candy bar. I heard it, my mouth opened and wish I didn't have to take a bus to my Dairy Queen. Surprised they shut it down and didn't reopen it. Sorry you could not get your blizzard. Though it's nice to have an independent ice cream dealer in the area. I'm BIG on astetics too and use your praise "Starbucks shoe box" when describing the lack of originality in building. Why do they have to change these places. People are still going to go there, and they look brighter with the old designs from the 70s, 80s and 90s. The new design quick serve food places look dark and depressing. If it's making money, leave them alone. I would think a buffet would add more customers to Pizza Hut. Even more upsetting is taking the beer away because it pairs so well with a good pizza. (showing my food snob side.) And thanks for making me hungry for Kit Kat Blizzards, Arbys and thirsty for Beer!!!! :)
Spot on take on the classic aesthetics these chains once had. Now they look like they're designed by the same guy and just given different color schemes. There's a new Taco Bell in my town and nothing about the building gives off Mexican food or southwest vibes. idk maybe its not as important as it was in the 80s and 90s to have buildings that stood out. Wendy's went a step further with their generic logo that looks like it was made on Microsoft Paint for Windows '98 in 2 seconds.
Great video, Wallie! I too, do not like when a place is renovated to look bland and unremarkable. The Taco Bell stood out as it has unique architecture..
I actually worked at this Dairy Queen the project manager did a garbage remodel and screwed over the owner, and she had multiple health problems at the time so she couldn’t keep up with it
maybe they were going to remodel but they found out they didn't have enough money so they just decided to close it just a thought or maybe they decided to open a new one
They closed because DQ corporate wants all DQ locations to serve hot food. The location was too small for hot food prep. So, corporate DQ would not let them open.
What they don’t have room for a microwave?
All the fast food places had there unique look, there losing there charm, in fact the food had gone to hell too.
@@ericheld4382 hmmm
@@ericheld4382 hmm
F- corporate
Such a cute little building. I love the walk up windows. Dont see old school DQs like this any more. From what you shown, the equipment does not look that old. Now the reason for the 2 power meters are, 1 is for the main building power, and the other meter is for the HVAC heating and air conditioning. Most of these older buildings did not have natural gas so you had to have electric heat, and electric heat uses a lot of electric current so the main meter service was not ample enough so they added a dedicated electric service just for the heating and air. The 2 meters on this dq are just basic Itron Centron meters. I have many in my collection. I love the fact you bowl on AMF lanes. AMF pinsetters are the best in the business. Now Brunswick pinsetters are junk. I have worked on many. Dont like Brunswick at all. Great video.
The McD's where I used to work is that same type of building. It used to have an outdoor play place, but they took it out, expanded the front end and installed a huge indoor play place. I'll have to get a picture of it.
We have two if those taco bells like that. The other one is a newer one.
I miss Arby's. Ours closed like a decade ago.
Well up in keokuk iowa their McDonalds isnt the same anymore the building they made it look crappy I miss the old one they had I mean the red brick floors and the seats they had is the swivel seats and a spot to have a party and the whole place was handicap friendly.
Arby's Curley fries I like to put those into the sandwiches so good.
*We had our DQ close in Foxborough "due to an emergency." Never found out the emergency, and one day the signs just disappeared as well as all the drive thru menu boards. Never to reopen. Equipment was all left for the longest time.*
Darn no banana spilt??
Well what the hey?
I swear when I visited Greentree last year to see my uncle last that Dairy Queen was open! Can't believe it's closed, we went there all the time.
Great video as usual!
Good morning Wallie! Great video, sad to know this Dairy Queen closed! I know you would have liked to own that sign, but you had respect and left it there! Thanks for another great video, and have a great day! 🍨🎂😀
The old Rita’s building used to share the left side with a Blockbuster Video. I remember always going there back in the day :)))
There is a very small DQ in Jackson Center (a tiny little town in Mercer County, PA) that actually has a Brazier in it! Also I enjoyed seeing the old school aesthetics McDonald’s. They renovated the one in my town to look like a “Starbucks,” too. And the Pizza Hut in my town is still a dine-in with a weekday lunch buffet and as well as Tuesday/Wednesday night buffets.
9:05 Is That McDonald's Still There, Or Has It Been Renovated To The Shoebox Design?
It's been renovated into a boring grey shoebox like the rest of them.
All of ours at Colorado Springs save one we’re converted to grey or dark grey boxes that were not as brightly lit as before. The one exception was one that had been remodeled on the outside to a 50’s-60’s era appearance on the outside (the inside had been remodeled again in late 2019 and was due to reopen inside when the COVID hit, it finally has allowed inside dining in the last few weeks).
We had a dine in Pizza Hut like that one here in Orem, UT. I think it closed about 10-15 years ago. It sat vacant for quite some time. It was finally demolished about 5 years ago and now there is a chic-fil-a there now.
I work at a dairy queen and the one I work at is on route 19 going towards Cranberry in one direction and going towards Zelienople in the other direction.
I was born 1984 , I do agree with you @ Wallie about the new look ( I like the old looks better of the buildings also )
I have gone by there on a Port Authority bus several times over the past few months. One of my relatives lives near Dairy Queen in Green Tree.
I 100% agree with you on the Pizza Hut restaurants. I enjoyed going there because they also had a salad bar that you could get with the pizza buffet .Now I think they're way overpriced and under fed. compared to what they used to be.
Remember when Wendy's had a salad bar .. it was fantastic one of the best salad bars. You would think with healthier eating today all these restaurants would be bringing back the salad bars but they seem to all gone by the wayside, that's really ashame too.
Keep up the great videos and love you love for the older vintage styles.
Never seen a Dairy Queen like that but, cool! Awesome video!
Carla Dickerson Me neither, looks very small due to the lack of an indoor dining area but still cool :)
There’s a dine in Pizza Hut with lunch buffet still going in Newton,IA . Our older 70s style Mc Donald’s building got torn down summer 2017 and got rebuilt as one of the newer style buildings and has an touchscreen pop machine now. It opened sometime in November that year.
I remember those old Dairy Queen's you could only order Ice Cream only at that time, and they would be only open for the summer!
I just came across this and it makes me sad. My mom used to take my sister and I numerous times. Such great memories.
yesterday i saw out a Hardee's window an abandoned old school BP with the BP logo and Welcome sign still painted on the canopy. Didn't see if the sign by the road was stripped. most likely not since most of them are left untouched unless turned into something else. It looked like it could of been open but i need of a new coat of paint like some of the unrenavated 2000 BP's with the newer green sunflower logo. I believe it had an auto center instead of a convenience store although i could be confusing it with one i found on google maps.
also passed by an abandoned Kmart near the Greenwood mall in SC. Could of swore the signs were up when I passed by the first time
Good video, 2 thumbs up. Funny how that Dairy Queen is just ice cream. I never seen one of those. The ones here in TX are fast food and ice cream. Thanks for the video, cool stuff. Also, Happy Belated Birthday.
Cool I grew up bowling in a League for NASA here in Maryland
Yes showing my age, we bowled duckpin vs ten pin. Duckpin Bowling was invented in Baltimore Maryland :)
👍 I think many companies learned from Pizza Hut that brand-franchised unique buildings are hard to resell and harder to modify without spending a bundle. To this day, I see chiropractor offices, donut shops, nail salons, etc. in former Pizza Hut Buildings and you Just Know what used to be there . . . and that they sadly went out of business.
In my area too they are building replacements of former eateries in the said grey boxes. They can just take the old signage down and slap a new sign up and call it Done if they want. I don't even think people WallieB26's age or younger could pick out an old Pizza Hut Store . . . just like tape decks or albums for some.
That McDonald's is modern compared to the ones I went to as a kid.😂
We use to have one, in a few down from that had the airplane on top of the building
That McD's has since been 'modernized' ...again
There is an OLD Dairy Queen on route 8 as you head to Butler. I'm sure you've seen it before. You need to take Kayla and go take pictures. Lol. As far as I know, they're still operating. They were last fall.
Well pizza hut owners have been going through chapter 13 and selling and closing their buildings and so has McDonalds and dairy queens it's sad really.but now theres a jewelry store or company is closing now call jared/zales..
@corey the nomadic maintenance guy Well Jared is part of zales.but quincy mall is losing stores right and left for pass a few years now and zales.and Jared are the last anchor stores in that mall now if they go that mall is so totally screwed that mall has been around longer than the keokuk iowa mall..
I kinda wonder if maby the fire marshal shut them down for only having one exit and they were getting ready to remodel and the cost was just too much. We still have dine in pizza huts here in New Mexico and they still have buffets and are upgraded also
What you said on this video reminds me of the restaurants where I live. They all look alike and are too small. One of our McDonald's is little. Thanks to the pandemic some are closed except for the drive thru windows.
it closed down about 3 Dairy Queen but hey thank you for another great video
Cool video, I always like the Oreo Blizzard but I ought to try the Kit Kat one, that sounds pretty good.
I know, we went to a Pizza Hut in Columbus, Ohio and they didn't have a dining room. We still have a dining room in Pizza Hut here in Cambridge, Ohio.
Talking about Cambridge, they tore the Kmart gas station down. It tore at my heart.
Awesome video wallie!
I work part time at a McDonalds....it still looks like this, with a “coffee shop” look on the inside. I actually just filmed the outdoor shopping complex that it’s in...not sure if I’ve made it public yet.
Great Video! Thanks WallieB!
Great video, thanks for sharing it with us
Awesome video wallie
Fun video WallieB. Thanks.
There was a family toy Warehouse in Greentree that closed
James Dell. My mom worked their in the late 80s
@@vincelupi4918 that's cool I liked that toy store I knew of 2 others one in Greensburg and one in Robinson near walmart
What a cool looking DQ! I wonder what happen why they never reopen it?
Where I live they update/renovated the McDonalds. We used to have one that looks like that one in this video.
Was Dairy Queen opened in the winter?
Not this one.
The Taco Bell in White Oak, PA still looks old school 90’s. As of March 2020.
You should see the old old taco bells. It look like mission with a bell in the middle.
That is a really cool estetic taco bell!!😂
that's a cool 90s TB, but there were ones in my area that had an actual bell in the structure of the roof.
We have a seasonal DQ where I live, I wish they would expand, and have one open all year round...I love DQ! We have two dine in Pizza Huts.
Interesting AMF bowling in Australia has been bought and rebranded by a arcade company and its now called zone bowling but its still AMF in the USA?
It is; it’s either ANF, Bowlero, or Bowlmor (after buying out nearly a hundred Brunswick owned-and-operated in 2014).
“AMF”, not “ANF”…
Uhh there’s a ton of dine-in Pizza Huts all newly remodeled down here in North Carolina. There are still a ton of old-school McDonalds down here too! Might wanna come check some out! (Don’t eat at Pizza Hut... It’s really bad down here! Their buffet is so old.. Moldy salad!)
We have a taco bell here, that is the first original design. They closed it down, and moved it to a new plain design building. That old one is still there to this day.
Why is it the really old ones?
My local McDonalds got remodeled twice (2010 & 2016) and I agree that they're starting to look more like a Starbucks right now. Looks like the one behind the abandoned Dairy Queen had a lucky escape though hehe! XD
Not too many dairy queens where i am in Greensboro North Carolina anymore
Good video 😀 A Dairy Queen here, closed a year ago and was turned into an Enterprise Rent a car
I have visited here in a dream...but I've never physically been there.....but the dairy queen and the McDonald's just how everything looks was exactly how it was in my dream....the Dairy queen is identical
All dairy queens is remodeled in pueblo metro area and my best friend is owner of dqs. Most regular McDonald's is remodeled expect lit mac McDonald.
The one that recently closed on McFarland Rd in Mt. Lebanon is even more baffling
Its gotta be a western Pennsylvania thing, the Pizza Hut’s here in eastern Pennsylvania seem to be doing really good. Most of them are eat in with a buffet
South Central PA. Ours are still eat in, but the one with the buffet closed a couple of months ago and only had a buffet sporadically. It was a "call before you come" basis to see if they were even doing the buffet.
Yes I'll take Butterscotch Ice Cream cone, oh wait they stopped offering those years ago. There is small DQ by my dads house I'll have to take a picture of it next time. Omg that old school McDonald's is beautiful.
For example if they're going to reopen that Dairy Queen for example they would have to do a thorough cleaning before they would reopen that if they were going to reopen that store
Happy belated birthday buddy
We have a dine in Pizza Hut in Lakewood and Erie Pa has one too I believe
There is still a yum yums and mayberry in Greensboro been open for 50 yrs and still the best
I went to a DQ without indoor dining like that in Pittsburgh. I almost thought this was the one until I checked the upload date that was before I went there in July 2020
Great video!!👍👍
Thank you for the Great video
Yes you are very much right. These restaurants are getting rid of there old look that made each place unique. Now you starting to see bland looking buildings with no style to them. Seems like a dull light brown is the new look. Along with a dull since of customer service.
My small town used to have a Dairy Queen until we got a McDonald’s came to town and cut into their business. It was turned into a bank and is now abandoned. People here really want a Dairy Queen back and almost got one but it ended up not working out for some reason. As for our McDonald’s it was really cool it was decorated with our high schools colors and had a display for old McDonald’s collectibles now it is just like all the other bland McDonald’s.
Those McDonalds and Pizza Huts are much more common over here in the Pacific Northwest
The Pizza Hutt in Moon Township has a dine-in restaurant.
I remember the old taco bells of the seventies and the ones back then look more like an adobe type of building and that was before they started using the Bell as a logo the old logo was a Mexican wearing a sombrero with an Afghan over his shoulders having a siesta too bad you were not around in the 1970s because in the 1970s you got to see fast food places and so forth that some of them still had their mid-1960s look the whole way up to at that time 1970s current look.
They’ve since updated the McDonald’s and the Taco Bell. They didn’t update the Arby’s yet. I agree with you on lack of aesthetics.
You never know they might still be planning to reopen it might just be super hard to find the equipment to get that place running.
Or maybe not
I’ve been in a Pizza Hut that you can dine in. Funny thing, all they did to remodel it was paint the roof black!
My town has two Wendy’s, 1 has the old asthetics, and 1 got torn down and rebuilt with the new, boring asthetics.
Awesome video dude
My cousin is a manager at the McDonalds one day I dropped her off and looked around the DQ and no signage remained. I am not from the area and thought it might have been the previous location of the ice cream shop across the street
Cool video !!
Hi Wallie, Can you try to make a video at the Chambersburg Mall in Scotland PA (A outskirt of Chambersburg).It is one dying and hurting mall indeed
Thank You
I would like to reach out to the owner to see if they would be interested to sell this building. Please help me if you can. Any one here knows who owns this building?
I have a Dairy Queen near me that still has the promotional "Brazier Burger" sign up! And its still open! Plus i believe this is the oldest design you can find for the "Brazier Burger" sign. The inside still has that 1970s style walls, booths, and overall feel.
The roof is a pretty faded though, and the letters for the address are falling off, but the sign is still in pretty good shape.
Heres the place if you are interested : www.google.com/maps/@39.3395086,-82.1038351,3a,81.2y,321.3h,90.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6pq3khrdL9HsgZoZdtA-QQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Edit: just to say the reason this is such a big deal for me is because all the DQs serve hot food, but back in the 1960s/1970s, most of them served cold foods, and the Brazier Burger promo was to let people know that they served hot foods, so now the sign is pretty much pointless, and now becoming harder and harder to find these old promotional signs, especially these older styles of signs.
Every single building seems to be made from the same cookie-cutter mold anymore. I actually get confused as to what store is what sometimes. I also miss the small ice cream only Dairy Queens, they really had character to them. We live in such a sterile, bland present day.
We had an old 90s style DQ in my town that shut down and moved to an abandoned KFC so they could serve hot fod and the KFC was big enough due to there being a buffet line in it so they moved and now the old DQ is a bank, good memories in that old, moldy DQ
We had a very unique McDonald’s near me. It was built in 1981 and sadly, it was just rebuilt a mouth ago. :-(
I love their chocolate dipped cones and hot fudge sundaes :P wish I worked there lol
We have 2 dine in Pizza Huts here. I didn't know they were doing away with them.
Our eastside Taco Bell is just like that one, the westside one were I go is a shoebox.
my sonny bbq in my town is closed up due to high renovation and low employment there and it was all was buys
This one looks similar to the one in Grafton, West Virginia, in my opinion.
You LOVE Kit Kat blizzards too? I do too! My favorite candy bar. I heard it, my mouth opened and wish I didn't have to take a bus to my Dairy Queen. Surprised they shut it down and didn't reopen it. Sorry you could not get your blizzard. Though it's nice to have an independent ice cream dealer in the area.
I'm BIG on astetics too and use your praise "Starbucks shoe box" when describing the lack of originality in building. Why do they have to change these places. People are still going to go there, and they look brighter with the old designs from the 70s, 80s and 90s. The new design quick serve food places look dark and depressing. If it's making money, leave them alone.
I would think a buffet would add more customers to Pizza Hut. Even more upsetting is taking the beer away because it pairs so well with a good pizza. (showing my food snob side.)
And thanks for making me hungry for Kit Kat Blizzards, Arbys and thirsty for Beer!!!! :)
I totally agree with you on the aesthetics! These places nowadays all look so bland!
Spot on take on the classic aesthetics these chains once had. Now they look like they're designed by the same guy and just given different color schemes. There's a new Taco Bell in my town and nothing about the building gives off Mexican food or southwest vibes. idk maybe its not as important as it was in the 80s and 90s to have buildings that stood out. Wendy's went a step further with their generic logo that looks like it was made on Microsoft Paint for Windows '98 in 2 seconds.
Dairy Queen the best. I would always get the sundae’s.
Great video, Wallie! I too, do not like when a place is renovated to look bland and unremarkable. The Taco Bell stood out as it has unique architecture..
I love Dairy Queen food.
happy birthday
The remodeled McDonalds look like prisons. Taco Bell ain't far behind...the purple stripe they have is the only colorful element.
you hit a gold mine with several old restaurant! directly behide each other!
yeah I only have 1 DQ around me and it's a grill and chill and all of my pizza huts dine in closed except for 1 and my MD is old like that one
I thought the one in Elwood Indiana was small 😂
Did that McDonald's have a play place still because I think them taking them out has cost them some customers
I actually worked at this Dairy Queen the project manager did a garbage remodel and screwed over the owner, and she had multiple health problems at the time so she couldn’t keep up with it
maybe they were going to remodel but they found out they didn't have enough money so they just decided to close it just a thought or maybe they decided to open a new one
I love the classic McDonald's design