--just local to several distinct locales. I didn't realize DC was one of them. They were also in parts of South Florida, and in Houston but not elsewhere in Texas that I know.
Kind of like Schlotzsky's, which was local to Carnegie Hall for a few years but then closed within months of my finally reaching it!
A weird thing with Carvel is that all the stores here in the mid-Hudson Valley spun off into a separate chain, Carnival (unrelated to the Long Island ice cream truck company), after Tom's death. A few Carvel stores have opened and closed here over the years since then, but without the old familiar locations they just didn't have the draw anymore. I see on the webbage there's one in Hopewell now and one "coming soon" in Red Oaks--where, last I knew, there was still a Carnival across the road!
I didn't know they had merged with Cinnabon and Seattle's Best recently. As all these stupid fast-food conglomerates grow, every one of them seems to be trying its hardest to ditch the local flavor and reinvent each of its brands as a longtime nationwide brand. Now even Nathan's want you to believe they've been the whole country's favorite ever since FDR served them to royalty.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:55 am (UTC)Kind of like Schlotzsky's, which was local to Carnegie Hall for a few years but then closed within months of my finally reaching it!
A weird thing with Carvel is that all the stores here in the mid-Hudson Valley spun off into a separate chain, Carnival (unrelated to the Long Island ice cream truck company), after Tom's death. A few Carvel stores have opened and closed here over the years since then, but without the old familiar locations they just didn't have the draw anymore. I see on the webbage there's one in Hopewell now and one "coming soon" in Red Oaks--where, last I knew, there was still a Carnival across the road!
I didn't know they had merged with Cinnabon and Seattle's Best recently. As all these stupid fast-food conglomerates grow, every one of them seems to be trying its hardest to ditch the local flavor and reinvent each of its brands as a longtime nationwide brand. Now even Nathan's want you to believe they've been the whole country's favorite ever since FDR served them to royalty.