After an arsonist set fire to their downtown location, the Carter family - mainly son Verdon and his wife Olive - agreed to run the restaurant on the condition that Doner allow them to included a Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru.
"My brother was a good friend of Col. Harland Sanders, and he wanted to have that take-out business," Mac Carter said this week. "It must have been good for things there, because they were serving 1,000 meals every day in the summer."
"The food was great and it was extremely busy, but they couldn't make a go of it," said Mac, who helped his brother last minute travel web sites try for the licence twice, to no avail. last minute travel web sites "That got the ball rolling in the wrong way."
"My mother came out of retirement to run the business, but didn't manage last minute travel web sites it for too long," Mac said. "There wasn't another restaurant or hotel like it north of Toronto. It is very sad, the way the hotel went downhill. It is definitely a landmark in Orillia's history."
"It was one of the only places you could go in town that wasn't last minute travel web sites crazy," last minute travel web sites said Paul Weber, who remembers the rowdier atmosphere at the Champlain Hotel's Pow Wow Room. "It was one of the best places to go, the toast of Orillia. They'd have live music in there. It was quite the party place."
last minute travel web sites Because of its unique futuristic "Googie" style architecture, most notably marked by the rooftop sundial and round dining room featuring panoramic views, the building was at one time considered for a heritage designation, said Mark Fletcher, last minute travel web sites chairman of the Orillia municipal heritage committee.
Trouble for the unique building last minute travel web sites started with the collapse of a canopy after the hotel was decommissioned in 2008, under the ownership of Royal Host. The restaurant had already been closed down by the company four years prior for financial reasons.
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