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NBC Nightly News story on La Tour d'Argent: 427 year old restaurant?! It's almost twice as old as the United States!

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Dec 8 '09, 20:51

Can you name any other businesses that have been around that long? I can name one: The Hudson's Bay Co.

Mop

Responses:

the British Monarchy -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:25
Part of why I like traveling the world so much is that the world has cool old stuff. - adventy97 Dec 8, 21:25 3
- So...did you go in and order a #1 combo with cheese? -- nm - Trish Dec 8, 21:39 2
  - Went to a Tapas bar for dinner last night. Great food. Copious Kingfishers. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 8, 21:42 1
    - find izakaya places when you're in japan. it's sort of japanese tapas. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:54
bunch of german and belgian breweries are that old too. a lot of them in moasteries. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:15
there's a swedish mining/forestry company that's been around since the 13th century sometime. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:13 2
- I bet there's a lot of legacy companies stemming from the Baltic trading guilds. -- nm - Mop Dec 8, 21:18
- Stora Kopparberg... I was just thinking about them. Founded in 1288. -- (link) - second gary Dec 8, 21:16
1526 Beretta guns -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 20:55
the Catholic Church -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 20:52 1
- But, Dad, I don't wanna go into the family business with you, I want to....Sing -- nm - Jesus Dec 8, 22:48

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