Creepy Abandoned Chi-Chi’s
Behold, the crumbling turquoise and salmon stucco:
A nasty hepatitis A outbreak in 2003 was the beginning of the end for the Chi-Chi’s chain – the last U.S. restaurant closed its faux Southwestern doors in 2004.
But the Chi-Chi’s legacy lives on in the abandoned cantinas that remain in dozens of mall parking lots across America, and the Creepy, Abandoned Chi-Chi’s blog is there to document each and every fading hot sauce mural and squatter’s pallet. Many of the restaurants are like eerie Tex Mex ghost towns, the strands of tacky colored lights still hanging forlornly from the ceiling, begging for suburban explorers to stake their claim.
via Slashfood
November 4, 2007 | Posted by Jenn in Fiendish Destinations
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