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Former IHOP locations

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 15:38
by Dean
In San Bernardino CA on Highland Avenue, noticed a former International House of Pancakes (IHOP) location. It is now CASA SANCHEZ.

The original sites were large "home"-looking sites.

Wondering if many others still exist.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 16:08
by Brian Lutz
There's one former IHOP in Bellevue WA near the corner of Bellevue Way and Main that is now occupied by a Korean restaurant. It appears to have been built sometime in the mid-1960s, and shows up in some 1969 photos in the Eastside Heritage Center's collection.

Google Maps link

There's also another of the older style IHOP restaurants in the Overlake area of Bellevue which is still an IHOP, alhtough it's gone through a number of remodels over the years. Based on HistoricAerials, it was built sometime between 1968 and 1980.

Google Maps Link

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 20:29
by Jeff
There are a ton of those out here.

There is one in Montebello that was an IHOP until late last year, when it became Alexanders.
There is another one in Pomona on Holt and East End that hasnt been an IHOP in years.
There is one that is an IHOP still in Covina, Arcadia, West Hollywood, and more I'm sure I cant rememeber.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 22:12
by Groceteria
NC has a at least three still operating as IHOP that I can think of offhand: Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, University Parkway in Winston-Salem, and Battleground Avenue in Greensboro.

Last time I was there, there were also still-open locations on Lombard Street in San Francisco, on El Camino somewhere down the Peninsula, and in Bakersfield (I forget the street), among others. But you'll have to map those yourselves...

The Raleigh and Bakersfield locations still had original exterior signage as well, as I recall.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 02:37
by Brian Lutz
As an addendum to the above post, here is a link to the 1969 photo of the former Bellevue Way IHOP.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 14:27
by Dean
Jeff, the Whittier Boulevard location in Whittier, west of Colima Road...

Still there? As IHOP or something else?

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 19:38
by Jeff
No, torn down about 5 years or so ago.

The sign is still there (or was still there).

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 15:20
by mike t. whittier ca
Jeff, the Whittier Boulevard location in Whittier, west of Colima Road...

Still there? As IHOP or something else?[quote][/quote] They built a new IHOP on Whittier Blvd. by the whittwood Mall a couple of years ago.....

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 16:07
by storewanderer
There is one in Reno, NV just north of the intersection of South Virginia and Plumb.

There is also one in South Lake Tahoe, CA.

Both are still open as IHOP.

Such tiny kitchens in these units.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 17:15
by Jeff
mike t. whittier ca wrote:They built a new IHOP on Whittier Blvd. by the whittwood Mall a couple of years ago.....
This was a former Coco's that used to be a Ruebens Steak House even before that.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 00:06
by TheStranger
San Bruno still has an active "cottage" location on El Camino Real, while the Arden-Arcade area in Sacramento (at Watt/El Camino) has one that has been closed for about a year or two.

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 10:19
by Dean
Jeff wrote:
mike t. whittier ca wrote:They built a new IHOP on Whittier Blvd. by the whittwood Mall a couple of years ago.....
This was a former Coco's that used to be a Ruebens Steak House even before that.
Is this the site immediately on the corner as you turn into the center?

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 20:24
by Jeff
Fronting Whittier Blvd, on the side by Sears/The Broadway..

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 17:44
by TenPoundHammer
I found a couple of the old-school ones in Detroit:

19505 Grand River, Detroit, now a Corned Beef restaurant

449 N. Wayne, Westland, now a coney island

And one that's still open:

Royal Oak

Re: Former IHOP locations

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 18:21
by Groceteria
Found this while looking for something else in the Google Books Life Magazine archives. It's a list of all IHOP locations in 1967.

http://groceteria.com/forboard/ihop-1967.jpg