Locator: 48964FASTFOOD.
And, just exactly where is -- and what is -- "The Colony"?
The Colony, Texas, is a city in Denton County, north of Dallas, known for its Grandscape entertainment district, proximity to Lake Lewisville, and a suburban feel with access to city conveniences. Key attractions include the Andretti Indoor Karting and Games and Tiger Woods golf entertainment, while the community offers extensive parks and trails, a lakeside environment, and a convenient commute to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Distance: Euless to The Colony? A half-hour, 30 miles.
We used to drive Olivia to a lot of her soccer games in The Colony.
But back to White Castle:
Wiki. Any company described as "home of the original slider" has to .... be .... well ... soon endorsed by President Trump. LOL.
Truly amazing, recent expansion:
The first White Castle location in Arizona opened in Scottsdale on October 23, 2019. A second location opened in nearby Tempe on November 28, 2023. In June 2024, a third Arizona location opened in Goodyear.
White Castle announced on November 25, 2019, that the chain would return to Florida after previously leaving the state in 1968, with plans to open the first restaurant in Orlando. A ghost kitchen, operated out of the restaurant while it was under construction, overloaded Uber Eats when it opened for one day on February 24, 2021.
[Is this a great country or what?]
The Orlando location opened on May 3, 2021. It is the world's largest White Castle, located on Daryl Carter Parkway off Interstate 4. The opening coincided with White Castle's 100th anniversary.
In 2020, White Castle began testing an automated cooking robot called Flippy in a number of its Chicago-area stores, and then equipped a larger number of locations with the updated Flippy 2 model in November 2021. The system is able to discriminate amongst burgers, chicken fingers, and french fries, pick them up, cook them through automated temperature detection and flipping action, place the cooked item in a fry basket, and in turn place the basketed food in an area for holding hot items. The Flippy 2 model can operate without human intervention and produce 60 baskets of food per hour. By the end of 2022, approximately one in three White Castle locations are expected to be equipped with the device.
In August 2025, White Castle announced it would open its first location in Texas in the northern Dallas suburb of The Colony. The restaurant is scheduled to open in 2026 in a mega retail and restaurant development known as Grandscape.
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The Movie page
Sunset Boulevard. Book review, and movie review. A twofer.
I place Sunset Boulevard among my top ten favorite movies of all time.
The review is incredibly poor. The comments, however, are always fun to read.
An excerpt:
The indelible visual palette of “Sunset Boulevard” makes it among the most stunning movies of its era. As Mr. Lubin rightly points out, “few films have as persistent a sense of place as ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ ” For Norma Desmond’s mansion that was constructed on the Paramount lot, production designer Hans Dreier and his associate John Meehan created a baroque tableaux of faded glamour: gilded mirrors, tasseled lampshades and mahogany fireplaces. The film is shot in stark, horror-movie chiaroscuro by cinematographer John F. Seitz. According to Mr. Lubin, Wilder favored minimal camera movement, aside from a dazzling waltz between Norma and Joe that Seitz shot with a swiveling wooden platform attached to a dolly.
Happenstance, we learn, played a significant role in the final product. Mr. Lubin notes that Wilder initially wanted Mae West and Montgomery Clift to play Norma and Joe; West passed when she learned the role would require her to tone down her sex appeal. They almost didn’t get Cecil B. DeMille to play himself in one of the film’s critical scenes. For one day of filming, DeMille demanded $10,000. For reshoots he wanted a new Cadillac. Wilder and Brackett balked, but eventually ponied up.
“Sunset Boulevard” still compels with its vision of corrosive ambition. Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted it into a 1993 splashy stage musical that continues to draw audiences. In 2022, the movie appeared on Sight and Sound magazine’s list of the 100 greatest films ever made. Some of its lines of dialogue—“I’m ready for my close-up,” most notably—have entered the vernacular. On its 75th anniversary, this unflinching exposure of fame’s endpoint has plenty to say to a culture in which attention is more important, and more fleeting, than ever.
