{"id":29986,"date":"2015-02-20T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=29986"},"modified":"2015-02-20T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T21:19:45","slug":"save-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=29986","title":{"rendered":"Save the Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-29988\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29988\" title=\"150211_blog-photo_original-taco-bell\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150211_blog-photo_original-taco-bell.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150211_blog-photo_original-taco-bell.gif 640w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150211_blog-photo_original-taco-bell-300x196.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is just goddamned adorable<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It started with some hard-shell tacos and a dream.\u00a0Glen Bell thought\u00a0up crunchy, Americanized taco shells, making the traditional Mexican chow more fast food friendly. In 1962, Se\u00f1or Bell opened his very first Taco Bell in a modest Mission-style building in Downey, California, a city rich with fast-food history (it is also home to the world\u2019s oldest operating McDonald\u2019s restaurant, which opened in 1953).<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are roughly 6,000 Taco Bell restaurants in the U.S. including the run-down, crappy one across the street from my house in Eagle Rock. Now, the small cinderblock structure in Downey where mass-market Mexican food arguably began, faces an uncertain future. Although the structure hasn\u2019t held a Taco Bell for close to two decades, it has played host to a number of other taco joints, the most recent being local chain &#8220;Seafood and Tacos Raul&#8221;. After that restaurant closed last year, \u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"The Downey Conservancy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedowneyconservancy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downey Conservancy<\/a> became concerned that the building was under threat of demolition.<\/p>\n<p>#SaveTacoBell at least the Downey Taco Bell. You can tear down the one in my neighborhood instead.<\/p>\n<p>via\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.preservationnation.org\/2015\/02\/11\/savetacobell-americas-first-taco-bell-is-threatened\/#.VOehJlbenCM\">Preservation Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just goddamned adorable It started with some hard-shell tacos and a dream.\u00a0Glen Bell thought\u00a0up crunchy, Americanized taco shells, making the traditional Mexican chow more fast food friendly. In 1962, Se\u00f1or Bell opened his very first Taco Bell in a modest Mission-style building in Downey, California, a city rich with fast-food history (it is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1487,1486],"class_list":["post-29986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-downy-taco-bell","tag-save-taco-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30004,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions\/30004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}