I guess the one at San Jose is gone, which is a shame. I loved their brunches and the french onion soup. My friends and I ate there after my first small plane ride, and we got good and drunk on cheap champagne to celebrate.
I’ve heard periodic rumblings about closing Reid-Hillview, San Jose’s GA airport. So far it’s managed to stay open but I’m afraid with the current budget problems the city will likely close it. Another damn shame.
Boom Trenchard’s! There’s a name from my childhood. I don’t recall ever eating there, but my mom worked at MYF and my dad learned to fly there, so I heard the name frequently. I’m pretty sure I only went to the location after it became 94th Aero Squadron.
(Hijack: Other places I member from childhood are Pinnacle Peak, Case Miguel (which was on the airport and didn’t have a ‘de’ in the name), Organ Power Pizza, Fillipe’s Pizza, Ricky’s (a pancake place), and Picnic’n’Chicken. Oh, and my first motorcycle came from Kearny Mesa Yamaha.)
I’ve eaten in the one in Cleveland-but several years ago they totally revamped the decor, turning what had looked like an air force base into just another fancy restaurant by stripping out almost all “military” trappings.
Believe it or not, that goofy Picnic’n’Chicken barn building is still there on Clairemont Mesa Bl. It’s a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. It’s been used as a Churches Chicken (I worked there in HS), and then it was the strangest looking Subway I’ve ever seen. I thought for sure they’d bulldoze it after Subway moved out, but I guess it’s part of Kearny Mesa’s cultural heritage or something.
What a blast from the past. I remember the one in Torrance, CA. being *the *place to go on dates in high school, especially before a dance. A few years later we found out it had a pretty happening bar. Cool place. I wish we had one here. Actually we did have one here but it closed many years ago.