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'''Oscar's Restaurant''' is a [[Brownsville]] eatery located at 2805 West [[Cervantes Street]]. It was opened in the early 1940s as the '''Brownsville Restaurant''' by [[Oscar Woerner]]. It was soon renamed Oscar's for Woerner, whose pancakes earned him the moniker "hot cake king." The restaurant was purchased in [[1980]] by [[Helen Rollo]], who sold the business in September of 2015 to the Ashcraft family. The Ashcraft's are now trying to restore the restaurant to what it may have looked like back in [[1946]]. | '''Oscar's Restaurant''' is a [[Brownsville]] eatery located at 2805 West [[Cervantes Street]]. It was opened in the early 1940s as the '''Brownsville Restaurant''' by [[Oscar Woerner]]. It was soon renamed Oscar's for Woerner, whose pancakes earned him the moniker "hot cake king." The restaurant was purchased in [[1980]] by [[Helen Rollo]], who sold the business in September of 2015 to the Ashcraft family. The Ashcraft's are now trying to restore the restaurant to what it may have looked like back in [[1946]]. | ||
| − | The restaurant seats up to 300 in the main dining room. The décor is dominated by a large mural on the eastern wall depicting what [[Joe Patti's]] looked like many years ago. The exterior has been recently repainted and old world style decals added to the exterior windows on the front of the building subtly giving a design | + | The restaurant seats up to 300 in the main dining room. The décor is dominated by a large mural on the eastern wall depicting what [[Joe Patti's]] looked like many years ago. The exterior has been recently repainted and old world style decals added to the exterior windows on the front of the building subtly giving a design queue of what direction the renovations are going. |
On [[February 15]], [[1978]], shortly after 1 a.m., [[Pensacola Police Department|Pensacola Police]] Officer [[David Lee]] apprehended serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] after seeing his orange Volkswagen bug emerging from the alleyway behind the restaurant. Lee knew what most of the employees drove and was suspicious of the late hour; when he called to check on the license plate, it was reported stolen.<ref>Ann Rule. ''The Stranger Beside Me'', page 274.</ref> The incident is referenced in the song "Board of Tourism" by [[This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb]]: "Ted Bundy was caught behind the hot cake king / He had a busted head light behind the hot cake king." | On [[February 15]], [[1978]], shortly after 1 a.m., [[Pensacola Police Department|Pensacola Police]] Officer [[David Lee]] apprehended serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] after seeing his orange Volkswagen bug emerging from the alleyway behind the restaurant. Lee knew what most of the employees drove and was suspicious of the late hour; when he called to check on the license plate, it was reported stolen.<ref>Ann Rule. ''The Stranger Beside Me'', page 274.</ref> The incident is referenced in the song "Board of Tourism" by [[This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb]]: "Ted Bundy was caught behind the hot cake king / He had a busted head light behind the hot cake king." | ||
