Bad news: the Alexandria/Rt. 1 Chi-chi's (described here) has been torn down sometime in the past few months. We hadn't been that direction in a long time and had to make a run to Lowe's because of a comical bathroom caulking/remodeling issue (the people that owned our house before us? WORST HOME IMPROVEMENTERS EVER) and bam - 'twas gone. In it's place stands a ridiculously garish TJI Fridays.
It's a crying shame they didn't reuse the existing building, even if it was crumbling into the ground. And they didn't put a Carraba's there? I would have loved to see a fake-Italian-deep-south-carolina-ish-accented chain eating establishment take over the heap of faded 80's day-glo paint and fauxdobe.
See that word, "fauxdobe?" I just made it up. I am funny.
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Truly a shame. I wish I would have had the opportunity to snap some shots of the Pleasant Hills, PA location before it was torn down.
Darn it. I just saw some modern plaster-like material used to make a fake adobe structure and told my wife "look at the fauxdobe".
Here only four months after you invented the word. If only I could have moved to Taos a few months earlier!
Well done by you. At least I know who to attribute the word to ;-).
David Wheeler
April 1st 2008
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
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