Post #735346 by howlinowl on Fri, Jan 16, 2015 9:17 AM

Reminds me of the old 391st Bomb Group restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida. Found some pics online....I seemed to remember there being more planes, but I moved to Port Saint Lucie in 1999 and maybe these pics were taken after the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, maybe they lost a few during the storms. Closed in 2006.

http://www.pbase.com/jdonnelly/391bomb_group

I seem to remember that the guy who owned the restaurant also owned the "Memphis Belle" B24 replica that was used in the movie. Got to tour that plane in the early '90s, let us go up inside and sit in the seats and all. Told him I was suprised that he let people do that, with "souvenir" collectors out there possibly taking pieces with them. You could also go for a ride in the plane the next day....it was something like $400 a head, I didn't have that kind of cashflow to justify the expenditure.

howlinowl

(edit: Memphis Belle was a B17, not a B24 as I mentioned above)

[ Edited by: howlinowl 2015-01-16 17:23 ]