Post #448816 by TorchGuy on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 6:00 AM

Run-down hotel? Yeah it is. A few rooms boarded up - room service/cleaning use shopping carts - I am NOT kidding! Mid-century cool, though absolutely.

The Uncle Billy's in Hilo looks like it's been abandoned for 20 years from the outside but, no, it is in use. Uncle Billy (he's real) is a paraplegic or similar in a wheelchair, and is known locally for buying businesses, then running them into the ground by never spending a cent - the local legend is that family members bought his electric chair for him, as he refused.

My father bought an Uncle Billy's hot dog (that sounds disgusting, "Uncle Billy's hot dog") at a stand in Hilo. Said it was quite bad.