Steinie's U3DA Game "What is it?"

[spacekdet]

The Smoking Area.

[Steinie]

Wow!!! What are the odds!
My nephew was just there on a 2 hour tour with his wife's brother in law who works there.
He told me about the Russian missile story and what that object is.
I will tell more about what is inside the rest after someone correctly guesses.

[trueBlue]

D.O.G.E. Footlongs

[bitkar]

so far i have no idea, but iam with spacekadet :D

I guess it has been there before they built the pentagon around it. Isnt it a tomb of Lincoln or some of the first presidents?

[Finis]

Answer and Steinie's tour info. sometime on Sunday Feb. 16.

I think I was living in the past. There aren't enough people on U3DA now to have enough who would not already know. Maybe I should have posted a close up of the overhead view and no background info. Then web searches would have enough challenge.

[borgcone]

Miniature DoD. (Of course it's nested. There is a next miniature in the center, and so on.)

[Finis]

Ha ha ha and good guessing.

Time for Steinie to report on what his nephew told.

Originally it was a hot dog stand. Now it is a restaurant. Recently it was this one: (link)

There are food courts in the Pentagon but this central place has history with it. The Pentagon was to be built in DC but various concerns including proximity to Arlington National Cemetery changed that to nearby Virginia.

Spacekdet: The park probably really is the smoking area!

trueBlue: I heard DOGE would move DOD to the inner rings and lease the outer ones to become a big mall or indoor go cart track.

Bitkar: Not those but that's good thinking. Some US things include older things. The star shaped base of Liberty Enlightening the World (the Statue of Liberty) was part of Fort Wood.

Borgcone: If it was a museum then there would be a model Pentagon in it which would need a model museum which would have ...

[Steinie]

trueBlue actually had the correct answer (hotdog stand) when the Soviets wanted to aim a missile at it thinking it was a top secret location.
There is a shopping mall inside, restaurants and even dry cleaners but the most amazing thing I heard when my nephew was inside...
They give visiting diplomats a guided tour by someone in the military who for 1=2 hours walks backwards while giving the tour. Not looking where
he is going. Completely by memory while he gives his tour dialog. Even on the stairs.
He saw this while he was there!!!

[trueBlue]

Google Maps says it is Fort America Pentagon "Souvenir store"

[Finis]

Bing maps shows Au Bon Pain (online translation "with good bread") and Navy Federal Credit Union with Fort America and another NFCU in the main building. Apple maps via Duck Duck Go shows Fort America. Interesting. The locations of businesses are fairly accurate on most maps for other places.