{"id":3708,"date":"2012-10-11T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:54:34","slug":"now-its-a-taqueria-but-what-did-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/now-its-a-taqueria-but-what-did-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Now It’s a Taqueria – But What Did It Used to Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 2014 Update<\/strong>: “Now It’s FINALLY a Taqueria”<\/a>. The video is now complete, with photos of old restaurants (now taquerias), a great live audience singing along, and a bouncing taco\/burrito\/avocado highlighting the lyrics.<\/p>\n

\"taqueria_video_shot\"Watch the video on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Original post<\/strong>: Want to help me gather material for a video about our little town? Want a free CD? Read on.<\/p>\n

I just do this to myself. I get a “brilliant” idea (note: tongue firmly planted in cheek), and it becomes a huge research project. Last summer I was on a quest to find photos of our late Starlite Drive-In<\/a> for the cover of my new CD<\/a>. Several posts, articles, and phone calls later, I found what I needed, courtesy of the Register Pajaronian<\/a>. My pal David worked some PhotoShop magic with the pics, and came up with exactly the CD cover I was hoping for.<\/p>\n

Turns out, I’m still on the hunt for local photographs: One of the new CD’s songs, “Now It’s a Taqueria” (click here for a clip<\/a>), makes fun of how many local restaurants have turned into taquerias. (Okay, it’s most of them.) It’s a fun tune and always a goofy singalong at shows. We’re planning a video and thought it would be fun to get pics of the old restaurants and have them dissolve into photos of the new ones.<\/p>\n

I posted this question on FaceBook yesterday and received lots of great suggestions. Now I just need to find photos to go with them. How hard could that be?<\/p>\n

Here’s what my pals on FaceBook came up with. I have photos to go with the first two.<\/p>\n