My reactions to restaurant closings come in three varieties:
- Dang! It only just opened! We never got to eat there!
- Shoot! That was one of our favorite joints!
- How the hell did it last so long?
On the bus home last week I noticed a restaurant that belongs in the third category. Ying’s Drive-In was an old-school Chinese-American restaurant that had been on Lake City Way in Seattle for 45 years. I used to get off the bus there when we lived around the corner from it. I couldn’t figure out how it stayed in business; I never saw anyone eat there. Julian always assumed that it was a money-laundering operation. Chances are the property was sold for another soul-less apartment or townhouse complex–or a self-storage place.
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