Lets see…
The library across from where I grew up became a bank its now an insurance agent…
One of the convenience stores in my neighborhood is a title loan place, the other is a distilled water outlet.
Winchell’s Doughnuts became Pizza Hut! (Do I win a prize for finding one that turned into a Pizza Hut?)
The other Winchell’s is a title loan place…
Hmmm in my town they tore down a sucessful Pizza Hut and replaced it with an unsucessful Taco Bell, which then became an Arby’s. Or it might have been the other way around, I hear this by proxy. It makes no sense but then my brother who worked at the Hut for an unnaturally long time* said the owner was an idiot and an @$$hole…
I once saw a place that had a number of incarnations, never lasted, but two I remember in sequence was a dog groomers which then became a take-out spaghetti place. (Akk, cough, removes fur from plate…)Eventually the place was torn down…
*As in my brother kept his highschool job for 5 years. Of course for six months of that he lived with me in Vancouver, and worked at a different Pizza Hut.
In Houston, many old Pizza Huts now houses local taqueria chains. Taquiera Arandis comes to mind, but there are others.
Here in Roswell, GA. our local Pizza Hut is now a car rental place.
On a side note, in my home town has a business that is a liquor store and an auto tag/drivers license business. (In Oklahoma, Auto Tag agencies are privately owned.) That always seemed like a funny mix.
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We had a bank that got turned into a bar, then a store, then a restaurant, then a bank again, then a restaurant again, the a BBQ place, it’s empty now. Through all the changes, it still looked like a bank.
One of the old Taco Bells around here reopened as a hamburger place called “Spanky’s”. I guess they had hand spanked hamburgers, because on the roof, they painted “Hand Spanked” in giant neon letters. I still laugh everytime I do past there.
Funny. Same thing happened in my town. There were actually 2 Pizza Huts though. One that was a Winchells. The other was Pizza Hut until it closed and became a Mexican restaurant.
My favorite ex-Pizza Hut is in Austin.
It’s a Chinese restaurant, and in referred to as “the Chinese Pizza Hut”. Has been for 12 years, that I know of.
A former Pizza Inn has become a ‘massage parlor’ wink, wink, nudge nudge…
hmmm…
OK, there’s an out of business Pizza Hut in my town. It’s just been purchased by the owner of one of the most successful restaurants in town.
If the trend is correct, it’ll be a Mexican place soon.
PleaseOHPleaseOhPlease!
The Catholic Church some friends of mine were married in is now a bar!
That’s just plain wierd…
There are two other deserted restaurants on the boulevard that have been empty over a year. Fazoli’s fizzled about 2 years ago. Lately, I’ve seen some tidying being done to the property, and the boarded windows are unboarded, but there’s no sign to indicate what’s going to be there. It started life as a steakhouse, then became a “Po’Folks” - Fazoli’s lasted the longest.
Across the street is the former Applebee’s which closed late last June, and for months, the sign out front read “ReOpening July 3!” They’d started reroofing, but quit when there was only felt over the plywood. Most of the felt has blown away, so you know there’s water damage now in the roof. There’s a for sale sign out front.
Oh yeah, and just up the street from these 2 is a former Boston Market that’s now a chicken wing joint. It’s across the street from the old movie theater that became Service Merchandise, and is now Office Max.
Ah, the changing face of suburbia!
DC & Baltimore had the Little Tavern chain, nearly all of which are now either gone or converted to other uses. The ones that kept the steep-pitched roof are easily recognizable.
It seems the only classic Little Tavern still in operation is in Ocean City, MD.
Is that the one on 3rd or 4th west in Salt Lake City?
We too have a Pizza Hut with lousy northbound access and a bad parking lot, but it’s on the main drag of our little town and there’s no other sit-down pizza place for miles, so it stays in business.
And what’s with the Brick Oven? When we lived in Virginia Beach one opened near us - they remodeled an entire storefront to put it in, must have cost some $$ - and it only lasted about a year. Really average food, and they were chronically understaffed. Fortunately a real Italian guy bought the place and the food there now is wonderful - pizza with real buffalo milk cheese! I miss it. 
Some of these posts bring to mind:
One of our Pizza Hut’s is now a law office! :eek:
A Catholic Church in Salt Lake City?? That’s like a Baptist church in Springfield, MO!