tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post7860041235543930125..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: Restaurant at Oriental Pavilion - Still Closed After 63 YearsClarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-27773051860440046112013-01-15T14:11:10.647-05:002013-01-15T14:11:10.647-05:00Why not--that's exactly what happened to the o...Why not--that's exactly what happened to the old Elephant House about 20 years ago.Bob Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662020602196356914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-58357681689440642642013-01-15T11:08:09.994-05:002013-01-15T11:08:09.994-05:00Is there any indication of what the restaurant was...Is there any indication of what the restaurant was replaced with? I'm recalling a bunch of small staircases that limit access to the area by wheelchairs and strollers (and I thought Moses loved wheels), but not much else. This restaurant looks like a big chunk of real estate to just vanish into the woods.The Snobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08651104992931398542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-83352059546325008812013-01-15T10:10:35.279-05:002013-01-15T10:10:35.279-05:00"Resident historian"--that's a BIG r..."Resident historian"--that's a BIG responsibility, so I shouldn't rely on stuff I vaguely recall reading long ago, but IIRC the Master Builder didn't leave us entirely restaurant-less. Moses built a hot dog stand under the Oriental Pavilion. When that caught fire it burned down the rest of the Pavilion.<br /><br />On the subject of the Pavilion, I wonder if the Alliance will ever correct the deficiencies of the '80s recreation? It looks to me like there's some sort of internal rain gutter that wasn't done right. In any case, the wooden edges of the rebuilt Oriental Pavilion started to rot soon after it was completed. Not the Alliances fault of course--I think that restoration was pre P.P. Alliance. The Dept.of Parks didn't have a good track record on historic reconstruction. The early '70s restoration of the boat house boasted of replacing the original terra cotta with a modern high tech material which started to crumble soon after it was finished which lead to still another restoration that actually got it right.<br /><br />As to the elusive Maison Fong, I find the phony Yelp review kind of funny and sort of hope that they leave it up.<br /><br />Bob Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662020602196356914noreply@blogger.com