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# Special of the day has gone away
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/special-of-the-day-has-gone-away-editor/
- Published: 2006-03-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:19:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Ocean Park, #archive-import

*By Henry Rosenfeld Ocean Park*

The wonderful old green-and-white clapboard Ocean Park Cafe has closed. The venerable hangout by the Santa Monica Airport on Ocean Park Boulevard near Centinela Avenue, next to the old-time Cadillac repair shop, served the finest in breakfast sausage and an even better hot turkey plate special for nary more than $5.95 every Thursday. The family of Alejandra and her brothers say their father has sold it to the motel owner around the block on 32nd. But it is closed for a while now and I’ll miss it dearly while cherishing the memories: The time they stayed open late and sold sodas to the overheated on both sides out front protesting or praising Bush and Arnold’s appearance at a posh Republican fundraiser at the airport, we lining the corners as the cops kept us apart and out of the intersection, all of us waiting for a glamorous presidential limousine -- men in suits in vans, actually — that never did roll by (they took the back way in). And did I mention the turkey special every Thursday? Where am I gonna go now for giblets? The neighborhood’s going through them changes... ARGGGGGHHH!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 2, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030206.pdf?ref=smdp.com)