The Deleted Scenes

The Deleted Scenes

Didn't Used To Be a Pizza Hut

Or a story of serious detective work in the field of suburban archaeology

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Addison Del Mastro
Feb 02, 2022
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This building outside a strip plaza in Landover, Maryland, has been driving me crazy for almost a month:

Notice anything unusual about it? I did. For one, it lacks Pizza Hut’s trademark trapezoidal windows. Secondly, it’s a square, not a rectangle, and the roof is not quite the trademark Pizza Hut roof. Third, that orange pillar at the corner looks out o…

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