{"id":45,"date":"2015-01-01T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:37:19","slug":"billys-on-the-ritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Billy’s on the Ritz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Billy’s Ritz,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roanoke, VA.<\/p>\n

For several years, in late 1980s and early 1990s, I exhibited at the Arts Festival, in Roanoke, Virginia.\u00a0 I might add, they put on a great event, especially the entertainment for the public.\u00a0 Since it was downtown, Roanoke, we were able to visit several restaurants,\u00a0during our visit.<\/p>\n

One of the restaurants, was “Billy’s Ritz”, located adjacent to the Roanoke City Market.\u00a0 It was housed in the previous site of the 60 room “Ames Hotel”, which was built in 1910, according to records. Billy’s Ritz, was an upscale American, Steakhouse, which operated for 27 years, before selling in 2008.<\/p>\n

Several other paintings from Roanoke, that I painted, was “Texas Tavern”, “The Roanoke\u00a0Wiener Stand” and “Agnew Seed Store”.<\/p>\n

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Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love Roanoke and could live there! It is such a cool town.\u00a0 Here are a few of my favorite places around town…<\/p>\n

Hot Dog King<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Billy’s on the Ritz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Texas Tavern<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Agnew Seed Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billy’s Ritz, Roanoke, VA. For several years, in late 1980s and early 1990s, I exhibited at the Arts Festival, in Roanoke, Virginia.\u00a0 I might add, they put on a great event, especially the entertainment for the public.\u00a0 Since it was downtown, Roanoke, we were able to visit several restaurants,\u00a0during our visit. One of the restaurants, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,140,52,6],"tags":[653,654,652,870,647],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-x-12","category-restaurants","category-roanoke","category-virginia","tag-billy-ritz","tag-billy-swank","tag-billys-on-the-ritz","tag-larry-johnston-nostalgia","tag-roanoke","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}