Posted on 05/13/2023 9:04:43 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
When NFL players took a knee during the National Anthem in 2016, a tradition was born at Rainbow Oaks Restaurant.
Owners Duke and Jonell Maples, who remodeled and reopened the restaurant in 2009, decided to start playing the National Anthem at noon, seven days a week.
"It was my way of waving my middle finger at the NFL," said the retired Marine. The restaurant is filled with patriotic memorabilia and American flags. A Marine Corps flag flies under the American flag atop the restaurant and inside, it's obvious the clientele has support for and by the military and law enforcement. The restaurant, located on the west side of I-15, is also frequented by bikers, especially on weekends.
The Maples sold the restaurant (but not the land) to Jeanene Paulino in December. Interviewed at the cashier's stand last week, the new owner said she plans to continue all the same patriotic activities, including the National Anthem.
The restaurant has been in national headlines and social media the past couple of weeks after a woman visited the restaurant and declared on TikTok that the restaurant's activity was "the most dangerous situation I've ever been in."
"Our country is in sad shape if the National Anthem is anything but something to be proud about," Duke Maples countered at the restaurant last week just before the National Anthem was played.
Paulino, the new owner, said she was the real estate broker who listed the business for sale before buying it herself in December. "It was difficult to find a buyer with the same heart as Duke and Jonell," she said. "I stand with what they've established here, and it mirrors my feelings."
The Maples agreed to stay and help with the restaurant operation for a year as Paulino learns the business.
(Excerpt) Read more at villagenews.com ...
Rainbow is the name of this unincorporated area of North San Diego County. Rainbow is the last parcel of San Diego County before crossing the County Line into Riverside County and the City of Temecula.
It’s just east and right behind the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, and north of the numerous Navy and Marine bases in San Diego.
The area has been called Rainbow for a long, long time, going back to the 1880s when the word rainbow had no political connotation to it.
The area, previously known as “Vallecitos” (little valley), was renamed “Rainbow Valley” in the late 1880s, after Mr. James Peebles Marshall Rainbow, who bought a homestead there. JPM Rainbow was a farmer, a rancher, and a Republican who had been nominated for Sheriff and who served in County Government as a Supervisor.
See: https://sandiegohistoryseeker.com/2016/01/11/a-man-called-rainbow/
Unfortunately, the leftist freaks hijacked the word rainbow in the 60s or 70s …
Thanks for the details.
If kids these days (meaning any born after Baby Boomer Generation) had to live through things like that maybe they wouldn’t be the ME-ME, Look at Me !, I just turned 15 and nobody gave me a new car for my birthday present, useless, lazy, expecting a handout of everything, American hate mongers that they are.
Used to drive old 395 from San Diego to March AFB in the 70’s...
I remember this place!
Cheers er
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