Church's Chicken, College Station

Picture is from August 2019.
This restaurant operated as a Wienerschnitzel from 1993 to 2002 (in any case, the older Bryan location still is open. In 2003, it reopened as Church's Chicken and closed in or around October 2021, and like the Wienerschnitzel, Church's Chicken (or rather, "Church's Texas Chicken" as it's known now) still operates a location near downtown Bryan.

As of May 2024, interior demolition is going on (though it never did remove the building's signage).

UPDATE 05-13-2024: Post rewritten.

Former Aggie Cleaners on College Main

Courtesy Project HOLD, mid-1990s
As always, one of the goal of the current "new posts" is to dismantle the older posts that combined various properties. In this post, we're revisiting Northgate to cover 111 College Main, which was previously covered back in 2014. In my day at A&M it was "Gatsby's on Main", with a sign that said "Since 2004". By 2014, this was mildly impressive, which they celebrated with having drinks at 2004 prices. (I did not participate in that, that's just what I remember). But, Gatsby's did end up closing, with a replacement bar, The Dragonfly, opening in May 2018 (Gatsby's closing is unavailable). Aggie Cleaners was in the space prior to Gatsby's, from as early as 1980 to as late as 1998.

Rename in March 2020 to eliminate "address posts".

Chili's Texas Avenue

I never ate at Chili's all that often, so I don't have memories of it.

One of the themes of the future posts coming up (though not all of them) is a trip back to 2014 to cover some places in the Eastgate area where I actually lived. It's all part of improving the Eastgate article which hasn't been touched since 2014 (as of this writing). These pictures were taken in 2014, not long before the signs were upgraded to the newer logo, and I believe by this time many Dallas stores had been upgraded already. Today it has the upgraded prototype.

Picture of the older sign.

Chili's #235 was built in 1991 and has upgraded on the inside and outside more than once.

Pizza Hut, University Drive East

In 2014, the sun was starting to set on this Pizza Hut, figuratively and literally. (Picture by author)
With the recent news that Yum! Brands is closing some 500 sit-down Pizza Hut locations, that is, the ones that haven't already been closed down, it's high time for a look back at the sit-down Pizza Hut that College Station once had at 102 University Drive East (there was another short-lived Pizza Hut on University Drive proper in Northgate, and I promise I'll cover it soon enough). From newspaper archives and other sources, the Pizza Hut opened in 1974 but closed around July/August 2017. It did retain its iconic 1980s logo for a while after Pizza Hut started rolling it in more stores (probably as late as 2007), and today is home to additional parking for Fuego Tortilla Grill. The roof was redone in brown around this time.