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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Pining for the Places We Can No Longer Eat

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We asked you to send us stories about places you can no longer visit – and nearly everyone wrote in about a beloved closed restaurant. So today, we hear your stories of places you can no longer EAT. We still want to hear your stories about other places you can no longer visit (beyond restaurants). Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Or, record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Dylan here.

0:05.0

So a while back we put out a call for you to share stories with us about places that you could no longer visit,

0:12.8

places that you had once loved and lost that were gone.

0:17.5

And surprisingly to us, most of the responses

0:21.7

we got back were actually about restaurants.

0:25.0

There was something about these places, these locations that you could go and eat and they felt homey and special and weird and

0:34.8

interesting and now they no longer existed that really really seemed like they

0:41.0

struck a chord with everyone.

0:43.3

So today, we decided to compile these stories,

0:46.7

stories of places that you loved and lost,

0:50.3

where you dined and then they were destroyed.

0:53.4

Here is the episode of places you can no longer eat.

0:57.2

Hi, my name is Trevor Brown.

1:01.0

I'm calling about a place that is no longer there. That was one of the most

1:07.0

magical restaurants that I ever got to go to growing up as a kid. We as a family went over to Columbus, Ohio pretty regularly to go out to eat.

1:20.0

And the most amazing place that we ever did go to on the occasion was the place called the

1:26.6

Kajiki, otherwise known as the Kajiki Supper Club.

1:31.8

Apparently, and I didn't know this as a little kid,

1:34.0

it was one of the most magnificent, like Tiki-themed restaurants in the country.

1:39.0

But as like an 8-year-old walking into this restaurant,

1:42.0

it was just an amazing adventure to go on from

1:46.8

going across the moat into the opening area with the water fountain and the black lights and the glowing milky water to going in and the

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