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SnakesTancredi t1_jaa4h4k wrote

It’s a restaurant. I remember going there as a kid. Kinda like a diner style place.

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AdministrativeBall58 OP t1_jaa4tlh wrote

Still there?

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SnakesTancredi t1_jaad49w wrote

I think they’re renovating or did renovate it. Last time I was there a bunch of the old hotels were converted into condos and fixed up.

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thebruns t1_jaam3fq wrote

Did it rotate?

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SnakesTancredi t1_jaaspvk wrote

Nah. It’s stationary. Kinda disappointing because as a kid I wanted to go in the spaceship and then it was a restaurant, and then it didn’t even do anything! Stupid beautiful view….

Also. One thing to note. There’s more than one of these style of buildings. It’s been awhile but I know I was in one that was a restaurant. The other was supposedly a penthouse but I can’t confirm it because of time and because I don’t know if the other is still there.

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5uck3rpunch t1_jaaw1my wrote

This person is correct. It was a restaurant. I ate there only once as a kid. So sad to see this hotel like this.

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joebotx68k t1_jaajimo wrote

Ah, the saucer on top of the Royal Hawaiian. As a kid spending my summers in the Crest I always imagined it was some kind of cool control room, or an arcade full of the world's rarest games. Never actually went inside so I never found out!

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xXMcFuddyXx t1_jaasza2 wrote

So there's still a chance, however small, it is precisely those things you imagined.

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Tbyrd13 t1_jacsz3x wrote

We always stayed next-door at the Singapore and I always wanted to go in the spaceship!

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joebotx68k t1_jacujae wrote

Nice! There was and still is a lot of cool buildings in Wildwood. We always stayed at the Bonanza, which, unfortunately, has been bulldozed and turned into condominiums. I will always remember the woody smell of the lobby, and the little banjo clock on the wall....

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TacoBellTacoHell t1_jadam6i wrote

>We always stayed at the Bonanza

You just unlocked a deep core memory of my childhood.

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BakedPastaParty t1_jab1apd wrote

This was my landmark my junior and senior years of prom when I was too drunk to figure where i was!!! The UFO was my "Mothership" and it was 3 blocks in the other direction of my condo......good times......

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RangerExpensive6519 t1_jaaets8 wrote

Royal Hawaiian owners quarters. Nice guy and a nice place.

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lmball2 t1_jaaoxxe wrote

Wow what memories this brings back for me. The smaller building on the left is the Astronaut Motel where my family stayed every summer for 20 years. Now many of the old motels have turned into condos. Is this still the Royal Hawaiian?

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mulder406 t1_jab73om wrote

Miss the old hotels n motels in wild wood gave the place fun character for me just my opinion

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ratinthecellar t1_jab1f1d wrote

It's a flying saucer disguised as a restaurant. Alien cockroaches may try to use it to escape in the future. Or maybe they did already and my mind was wiped.

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LEDFOUR t1_jac9qjj wrote

You think that’s just a cool restaurant, but it really is a spaceship hidden in plain site! There are two more in Queens!

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storm2k t1_jacrp32 wrote

the motel's restaurant. most of the motels along the crest had a coffee shop style restaurant on their top floors or roofs that served breakfast and lunch. idk how many of them still operate.

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coreynj2461 t1_jadujn3 wrote

Used to go to the saratoga inn for breakfast and lunch. Great owners and people

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