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Pioneer of Theme Restaurants Pulled His Ideas Out of the Sky

By Stephen Miller
November 17, 2007

Years before the Hard Rock Cafe put guitars on its walls, David Tallichet's company dressed up its restaurants as Polynesian isles, New England fishing villages and French farmhouses barricaded with sandbags to protect against German bombardment. At his Proud Bird restaurant in Los Angeles International Airport, he installed headphones at each table so diners could listen to control-tower chatter.

A pioneer of the theme-restaurant concept, Mr. Tallichet was also sometimes called the Indiana Jones of historical aviation for his journeys to remote deserts and swamps in pursuit of warplanes. He eventually built a collection of 120 vintage planes.

Mr. Tallichet, ...

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i had the same problem accessing the article i was interviewed for in the chicago tribune!!!

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