Where U-Haul Trucks Go To Die But Actually Keep Working Forever
You know that guy down the street with the rusty old Ford Aerostar on his lawn, that’s stacked to the roof with old magazines or tools or whatever? Apparently U-Haul does that on a corporate scale. When their trucks die, the cargo boxes become storage lockers.
They literally just pull boxes off the trucks, drop them onto a “foundation” of a few cement blocks, repaint, and rent ‘em out. It’s a solid repurposing, I’ll give them that. U-Haul says 5,200 truck bodies have been effectively turned into buildings to date.
(Jalopnik.com)
Monday, August 31, 2015
Saturday, August 29, 2015
I Was Saddened When This Place Closed Up
The OC Food Scene, 20 Years Ago
The next change is more symbolic but equally telling: the closure of Garden Grove's legendary Belisles. I only went once but it changed the way I thought about food completely. I had an epic breakfast, a giant cast iron skillet brimming with hash browns, bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy. Enough food, in fact, for 6 people instead of just myself and two of my equally big-eating friends.
The closing of Belisles was a bloodbath worthy of Custer's Last Stand, with the Garden Grove Redevelopment Agency bulldozing the old dame to build a hotel that never came to fruition. And now there is a fucking Joe's Crab Shack there.
(OCWeekly.com)
The next change is more symbolic but equally telling: the closure of Garden Grove's legendary Belisles. I only went once but it changed the way I thought about food completely. I had an epic breakfast, a giant cast iron skillet brimming with hash browns, bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy. Enough food, in fact, for 6 people instead of just myself and two of my equally big-eating friends.
The closing of Belisles was a bloodbath worthy of Custer's Last Stand, with the Garden Grove Redevelopment Agency bulldozing the old dame to build a hotel that never came to fruition. And now there is a fucking Joe's Crab Shack there.
(OCWeekly.com)
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