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Old 05-04-24 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by smd4
The best thing about Van Nuys was the 94th Aero Squadron restaurant next to the airport, but it closed two years ago. And the Anheiser Busch brewery.
Huh! Never knew about that restaurant but my Dad occasionally convinced us that a visit to "Busch Gardens" would be just as good as to Disneyland, and a hella lot cheaper for him!
They did have some exotic birds in an aviary, but...it was no Adventureland! Unless you consider it adventurous to watch workers dump bucketloads of wood chips into vats of boiling "wort"; which is/was the secret to legendary "beechwood aging" of Budweiser. I don't recall if Busch got any woodchips (since that was the economy brand).
In the same neighborhood there had been a GM assembly plant that built Pontiacs, IIRC, and also long ago shuttered.
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