{"id":16157,"date":"2018-02-12T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T23:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2018-02-12T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T23:39:20","slug":"georgia-diner-in-elmhurst-to-close-march-25-queens-chronicle-central-mid-queens-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/02\/12\/georgia-diner-in-elmhurst-to-close-march-25-queens-chronicle-central-mid-queens-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Diner in Elmhurst to close March 25 – Queens Chronicle: Central\/Mid Queens News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Georgia Diner Vagina Signage<\/p><\/div>\n

To be replaced by a ‘181-foot-tall mixed-use tower’. Hmm.<\/p>\n

To me the most notable thing about the Georgia Diner was how its peach signage looked like a giant vagina. They also had a couple of non-working payphones in the foyer, and my attempt to photograph them was met with suspicious stares from a couple of people who worked there. That’s my picture above from January, 2007<\/a>. I can’t say I spent much time or money at this place, but I associate it with the sessions I spent getting my eyeballs gouged at a nearby retinal specialist’s office. This was when doctors thought I might have macular degeneration. The Georgia Diner seemed claustrophobic and its interior somehow made me uneasy. It is, however, the only restaurant I’ve ever been in where I was able to order a banana. Well, it is the only place I ever requested<\/strong> that item. A banana just does not seem like something one orders separately at a regular sit down dining establishment, but I guess that kind of anything-you-want flexibility is what diners are all about. All of which reminds me of an early goal I had when moving to New York. I wanted to go to the fanciest place around, which at the time I thought would have been the Russian Tea Room or Petrossian, and order something like a a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a corn dog. I’ve never done that but some day…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Georgia Diner in Elmhurst to close March 25 – Queens Chronicle: Central\/Mid Queens News<\/a><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be replaced by a ‘181-foot-tall mixed-use tower’. Hmm. To me the most notable thing about the Georgia Diner was how its peach signage looked like a giant vagina. They also had a couple of non-working payphones in the foyer, and my attempt to photograph them was met with suspicious stares from a couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/01_121-1-5.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4cB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}