"Mohammed said also that he planned additional terror attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building and New York Stock Exchange, the Panama Canal, Big Ben and Heathrow Airport in London, the San Diego Zoo, the European road company of "Cats," that small French village where Johnny Depp lives, and the original Wendy's restaurant in Columbus, Ohio."
I love the inclusion of "the original Wendy's restaurant in Columbus, Ohio," a Historic Landmark done in by the unstoppable power of the Automobile Civilization.
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2007-02-24-original-wendys_x.htm> Wendy's to close original restaurant Updated 2/24/2007 6:58 AM ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Wendy's International Inc. said Friday that sagging sales will force it to close the restaurant where the nation's third-largest hamburger chain began in 1969. The iconic restaurant, filled with memorabilia and photographs of the late Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas, will close March 2.
"This is a very difficult decision, but the truth is we kept it open for sentimental reasons much longer than we should have," company spokesman Denny Lynch said.
Thomas, who died in 2002 of liver cancer, opened his first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers on Nov. 15, 1969. He named the restaurant after his 8-year-old daughter, Melinda Lou, nicknamed Wendy. He later became a nationally known figure as a Wendy's pitchman in television commercials.
But the original restaurant, just a few blocks from the Ohio Statehouse, is unable to generate sufficient sales at night or during weekends, when government buildings are closed, Lynch said.
The restaurant has no drive-through window, has limited parking and soon would have required substantial building improvements, Lynch said. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>