Close Encounters With the Space-Age Restaurant at the Center of LAX

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Back in the '90s (not the 1890s), we were asked by Eddie Sotto at Walt Disney Imagineering to help out with the design of the Encounter Restaurant. This restaurant is in the Theme Building at LAX; the building in the center of the airport that looks like a giant flying saucer. Recently the entire building was renovated and
the scaffolding that's shrouded its spider-like legs will soon be removed for first time in almost two years.

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I have no idea why it's called the Theme Building. If it...