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February 06, 2006
le virage
le virage
Originally uploaded by in retrospect.
i spent the weekend at home with my dad in walnut creek and managed to get a record of the fantastical le virage restaurant on north main street.
i remember when i was a tiny four-year old girl perched on the armrest in the back seat of my mother's vw hatchback staring out the window and would gaze at this restaurant painted with scenes of people clearly having such a fabulous time, i wanted nothing better than to eat a le virage.
but it was, in 1975, the fanciest restaurant in town and not suitable for a small child. apparently.
i had forgotten about the restaurant for years until one day i was taking the BART train to my father's house and remembered my long forgotten fantasy of dining there.
and it had closed just two weeks prior.
so this trip i had to at least capture the scene that captivated the culinary imagination my very early childhood.
Posted by heidijanet at February 6, 2006 10:06 PM
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Part of that painting is Edouard Manet's "The Cafe concert": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Manet
Posted by: julius at February 8, 2006 03:56 PM
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