Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Flames Restaurant in San Jose Destroyed by 4-Alarm Fire
NBC Bay Area ^ | Saturday, Jan 18, 2014

Posted on 01/18/2014 3:56:26 PM PST by nickcarraway

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last
To: jiggyboy

Local news story and the people who own the place and their employees are good people too.

Sadly, the employees are now unemployed.


21 posted on 01/18/2014 4:25:58 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

I thought you mentioned you liked that place. I don’t think I had been at that one in years. I always used to wonder if it was related to Three Flames.


22 posted on 01/18/2014 4:27:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Huskrrrr

This is the one down on Hillsdale


23 posted on 01/18/2014 4:27:52 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

Comment #24 Removed by Moderator

To: Vendome

Didn’t the breakfast place near Nob Hill used to be a Flames, several iterations ago?


25 posted on 01/18/2014 4:29:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

bummer ate breakfast there nearly every sunday morning for 20yrs


26 posted on 01/18/2014 4:31:20 PM PST by sappy (criminaldems)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: F15Eagle

Not so much for the giant billowing fire as it is for you having a heart attack at 0230. It is not easy looking for house numbers posted in all sorts of different locations (or missing) while trying to see over the flashing lights and avoid hotting the cars parked in the street.


27 posted on 01/18/2014 4:33:20 PM PST by Clay Moore ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Your memory is better than mine - its been the Uptown Los Gatos Diner for as long as I can recall.


28 posted on 01/18/2014 4:37:33 PM PST by skeeter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

LG Cafe, I should say.


29 posted on 01/18/2014 4:38:38 PM PST by skeeter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

oh noes ! that’s too bad.
I saw the remains this morning and will miss the place.


30 posted on 01/18/2014 4:38:50 PM PST by BuddaBudd (F U B O)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Which Snob Hill?

The one in LG?

THE Iron Skillet has been there forever.

I don’t think it was a 3 flames.


31 posted on 01/18/2014 4:40:20 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

I could be wrong, but I think it was at one time. Didn’t it also used to be called something with, “skillet,” in the name?


32 posted on 01/18/2014 4:44:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

It’s not called iron skillet now, is it?


33 posted on 01/18/2014 4:46:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

The Iron Skillet?


34 posted on 01/18/2014 4:50:34 PM PST by skeeter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

Comment #35 Removed by Moderator

To: Clay Moore
Not so much for the giant billowing fire as it is for you having a heart attack at 0230.

and to lower the odds of a no knock SWAT raid on the wrong address. Posting names, photos, and a pro-police union sign might be a good idea too.

36 posted on 01/18/2014 5:08:25 PM PST by Reeses
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Huskrrrr
Really? That Winchester House is awesome.

A National treasure.

Amazing what too much money, insanity, and liberal guilt can achieve.

37 posted on 01/18/2014 5:29:19 PM PST by boop (Liberal religion. No rules, just right!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Reeses
When the sheriff showed up at our door at midnight, at least they had the courtesy to knock. It didn't matter that they walked right by the VFD fundraiser address sign on the way down the driveway. The sign that should have clued them in that the well known drug house they intended to go to was about a mile up the road.
38 posted on 01/18/2014 5:53:14 PM PST by Clay Moore ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

On Santa Teresa Blvd. near Nob Hill Market? I think it was still a “Flames” when I was there about a year ago. It had gone way downhill. There used to be numerous mile-high cakes and pies in the display case. Now there were only a couple and they looked “old .” And...the place smelled like sewage. Too bad, I used to like them, as close to a real diner as you’d get in So. San Jose.


39 posted on 01/18/2014 7:47:40 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

My sister lives only about four blocks from this restaurant.

And there was that big warehouse fire a week ago Thursday. I work a block away from that one.

There have been a LOT of fires in San Jose in the last week. At least the fire at the Flames doesn’t sound like arson (the one up the street from me last week was).


40 posted on 01/18/2014 8:04:44 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson