{"id":137914,"date":"2019-02-22T20:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/windmills.html"},"modified":"2019-02-22T20:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T03:49:52","slug":"windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/windmills.html","title":{"rendered":"Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the deep dark history of Stuff I Grew Up With &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Van De Kamp restaurants were pretty generic coffee shop types of places. I remember going to them (with my mom) for coffees, lunches with friends, etc., when I was a tot.<\/p>\n<p>What set them off from anywhere else was that they were designed as giant windmills. Because, you know, Dutch name, windmills.<\/p>\n<p>The chain was originally a bakery, and though the company finally vanished in 1990, there are still a few remnants of it. In particular, this now-Denny&#39;s restaurant in Arcadia, California, which we drove past last weekend. The colors are different from the classic VdK shops (in favor of Denny&#39;s), but the windmill was still rotating &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6661038112365960721\/6661038120354763426'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XJ76oDLWgA0\/XHDC4PcU0qI\/AAAAAAAGe84\/OAJ0U2zDfkseGZYS57LCCVT3_FPT-HakQCJoC\/IMG_20190219_095045.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fSfibZ2AaPV'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the deep dark history of Stuff I Grew Up With &#8230; Van De Kamp restaurants were pretty generic coffee shop types of places. I remember going to them (with my mom) for coffees, lunches with friends, etc., when I was a tot. What set them off from anywhere else was that they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/windmills.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windmills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190219_095045.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31376,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/cool-another-reason-not-to-eat-at-dennys.html","url_meta":{"origin":137914,"position":0},"title":"Cool &#8212; another reason not to eat at Denny&#39;s","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Nov-12 11:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"At least the ones John Metz owns in Florida. \u00a0Since his solution to ACA provisions and costs (apparently to make up for the fact his employees don't have health insurance, which makes me really not want to expose myself to his staff) is to put in an explicit \"Obamacare surcharge\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":321,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/03\/you_have_a_righ.html","url_meta":{"origin":137914,"position":1},"title":"You have a right turn in &#8230; seven &#8230; leagues &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-May-03 9:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"How technology would have made the Fellowship's life easier. 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