Arcadia, California: Windmill-themed Business (Gone)
Denny's chain restaurant opened in late 1990s featured a Danish-style windmill above its ruffle collar roof. The windmill, which turned until 1989, was part of a Van de Kamp bakery/restaurant (1967) at the site.- Directions:
- NE corner of Historic Route 66 and Santa Anita Ave.
- Hours:
- 2018: Windmill vanes missing.
- Status:
- Gone
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No longer has the windmill. Denny's is still there, but the windmill is absent.
[Bruce, 09/13/2018]The windmill blades fell off in December. Fortunately no one was injured. To be repaired.
[Jing, 03/21/2018]The windmill [blade] has fallen off and is supposedly going to be put back up in the future.
[Zak, 03/18/2018]
Good place to stop and use the restroom on your road trip!
[Crystal, 08/06/2014]And a nice piece of roadside architecture preserved and nestled atop a Denny's.
New Denny's diner in Arcadia has a large windmill above it.
[S. Winston, 11/07/1999]Denny's chain restaurant opened in the late 1990s featuring a non-operational Dutch-style windmill above its ruffle collar roof. The windmill is an artifact from an earlier tenant where it made a little more sense -- a Van de Kamp Bakery.
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The windmill, whose blades hadn't moved in years, was repaired and its blades set spinning exactly 18 months before they fell off.