We Had To Destroy The In-N-Out In Order To Save It

It's a uniquely-American approach to historical preservation. Reminds me of a McDonald's I saw once in Meridian, MS. There, they destroyed an olde ice cream parlour in order to build a new McDonald's, which was dedicated in fond memory of the olde ice cream parlour, and which featured all kinds of tidy display cases containing olde ice cream parlour bric-a-brac:

The only gift Baldwin Park gave to the world was In-n-Out, and you know this to be so when its hometown paper, the San Gabriel Tribune, describes the chain's oldest-remaining location as the "city's most notable landmark." It hadn't been open since 2004, because In-n-Out officials had unveiled a newer location nearby and planned to refurbish the older space--dating back to 1954--as a museum.

That's not going to happen anymore. The Tribune reported yesterday that In-n-Out had that structure demolished so they could--yep!--build a replica of that building to use it as a museum.