![]() ![]() In December 1990, it was subleased and reopened as Bugsy's Hideaway, but that restaurant closed about a year later and then reopened as 94th Aero Squadron. Its location also made it somewhat hard to find. ![]() It worked for a while but closed in 1986 because it wasn't making any money and the food's quality went down, the Times-Union reported. And we said, let's tell the story of Guadalcanal where they fought in the jungle." "We asked ourselves how we could use this setting. "The runway lights were ghostly, and the tower searchlight was romantic as it rotated around," Tallichet said. Restaurant officials thought they had made a bad mistake because it was back in the woods and you could hardly see Craig's runway, he said. The property was on the side of Craig field in a thicket of pines and palmettos and by rumor, rattlesnakes, he said. Its theme came about by accident, Tallichet, a California businessman and a military aviator in World War II, told the Journal in 1982. ![]() The restaurant was owned by David Tallichet, board chairman of Specialty Restaurants, and was part of a corporation that had 47 similar outlets in California, Texas and Florida. Still, reviewers described the building's interior as "charmingly rustic" and "somewhat strangely romantic." Enter the women's restroom, for example, and you heard Churchill's famed "We shall fight on the beaches" speech that he delivered in June 1940.Ī cocktail lounge included a large dance floor and a big screen on which movies and newsreels from the 1940s were projected. ![]() Even the restrooms were steeped in the theme. Headphones connected to air traffic control dialogue, if diners so desired, while tape-recorded machine-gun fire could be heard after leaving your car. Servers wearing Red Cross pinafores or Army Air Corps tunics delivered orders of Thunderbolt Deep Dish Cheese Pie, Guadalcanal Chicken and Veal Corsair. There were recruiting posters, framed covers from Yank magazine, pictures of aircraft carriers listing in battle, fighter planes streaming smoke, bomber crews lounging around B-17s, ammo cases and helmets. Combat memorabilia crowded the stucco walls from floor to ceiling. Heavy wooden beams formed lintels and lined the ceiling while flames flickered in open hearths from under artificial logs, a Times-Union story said. ![]()
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