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The old Pizza Hut logo made me stop and think the other day
I drove past a small town Pizza Hut last weekend and it still has the red roof logo from the 90s. Most of them switched to that flat modern wordmark years ago, but this one kept the original style. It felt weirdly honest, like a place that didn't feel the need to rebrand just to look fresh. Does anyone else get thrown off when a chain changes its logo and suddenly the whole place feels different?
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lucas15910d ago
Has a friend ever told you about a weird experience that just stuck with you? My buddy Dan saw a KFC that still had the old Colonel Sanders face logo, the one with the googly eyes and the bow tie. He actually pulled over and ate there just because the sign made him feel like it was stuck in a better time. He said the place smelled like a church basement and the biscuits were rock hard, but he loved every second of it. There's something about those old logos that feels like a promise, you know? Like they haven't sold out to some corporate brain trust.
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jake_mason3010d ago
...and he said the place had one of those old school Pepsi fountains too, like the ones with the metal handles you pull down. I swear, it's like those places exist in a TIMEWARP or something. My buddy Tom found a Dairy Queen in rural Illinois that still had the original sign from the 60s, and he said the blizzard machine sounded like a lawnmower running on fumes. He told me the ice cream tasted "off" but he couldn't stop eating it because the whole vibe was just too good. It's like those forgotten spots have some kind of weird magic.
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