Ceiling Fan Sightings on 12/21/2021

[Adin Panthers]

So I took a trip at the bus to visit other places, and the first stop I saw is a 2 amp American made Hunter Original in a closed down Baja Fresh. At first, I thought it would be removed since it closed in 2019. 2 years later, it's still there. There's 2 more of them, but I could only get a photo of one. Sorry for the bad photo.

On the way home, there's a spinner fan in the bar adjacent to the Mexican restaurant. I took a photo of it from a distance because I'm under 21 years old and I'm not allowed to be in the bar.

[fancollector12]

Nice sightings! We lost our Baja Fresh about a decade ago, but it did have 5-blade white Classic Originals installed (one might have actually had only 4 blades installed). There was also another Baja Fresh probably 30 mins away from me that closed a year or so after my local one, and they had one white Passport III in the entrance, and the rest of the fans were white 5-blade Classic Originals. I never got up close to the one 30 mins. away from me, but saw them through the side windows from the road. I don't think the fans are there anymore, as the closest Baja Fresh to me became another restaurant (I think a yogurt shop?), and the other one has gone through several restaurant changes since being a Baja Fresh.

The same shopping centre that my local Baja Fresh is in has a TGI Friday's, and, up until the very early 2000s, they had a bunch of black 5-blade Classic Originals. The TGIF is still there, but the fans were removed long ago.

Also in that shopping centre are two more restaurants: one used to be an Uno Chicago Grill that was filled with black 52" Classic Originals (one installed with 4 blades over the entrance, 3 or 4 more in the bar also installed with 4 blades, and the rest in the dining areas all installed with 5 blades. The outdoor patio had 3 or 4 Weathered Brick Hunter Sea Airs. When Uno Chicago Grill closed in c. 2009, Famous Dave's moved in a year later in 2010, and all of the fans in the dining areas got removed (as well as the one in the entrance), although the bar fans still remained, and the Sea Airs got replaced by some generic black 52" outdoor builderfans. Then Famous Dave's closed in c. 2017, and in 2018, Miller's Ale House moved in, and is still there. This was the first major demo and remodel since Uno's originally built the restaurant in the '90's, and they totally gutted it. The bar Originals were removed, and they expanded the bar to be outdoors, and replaced the 52" outdoor builderfans with what I believe to be 52" black Hunter Cassius Outdoor fans.

The other restaurant in the shopping centre is an Outback Steakhouse, which had several brown Emerson Legend II's (and one or two replacement gold Hunter Custom Home II's) inside, as well as 4 white GE Vent (GEV) 52" 5-blade Hampton Bay Landmarks on the outdoor patio dining area. The outdoor Landmarks got replaced by Hampton Bay Grayton II's in c. 2003-04, and all fans were finally removed in a c. 2007-08 remodel. Outback is still there, though, albeit with no fans.

On the other side of that shopping center was a Toys 'R' Us that opened in the early 1990's, and had several white Dayton/Marley industrials. It closed with Toys 'R' Us's bankruptcy in 2018, and became a HomeSense store, and all fans were (unfortunately) removed. There was also an ice cream store (originally a Carvel, then an independent store), and they had 2 or 3 Appliance White 1990's-era 52" Emerson Northwinds installed. Those fans got removed in the mid-2000's, when it became a Sally's Beauty Supply store.