Aw, I doubt that set was really 30 years old. When it transformed from Pierre's to the Allegro in about 1975, they might have used some of the same materials in the Allegro set that had been in the old Pierre's set, but it was basically a whole new set, with the doorways moved and the bar moved and a totally different layout. Same circa 1980, when it switched from being the Allegro to being Jonas's bar. Ditto for the 1982 switchover from Jonas's to Gina's. If you compare a 1973 photo of Pierre's and a 1985 of Gina's, it's pretty much impossible to recognize any vestige of Pierre's in Gina's. I'd guess the Gina's set was about 20 years old when it bit the dust (though I believe some of the same set materials were probably used in constructing the Athletic Club set after Gina's burned.)
The salad bar was a big clumsy stainless steel contraption right in the middle of the floor. To get a "master shot", they had the camera out on the edge of the set like they'd always done. If they wanted to show someone walking through the door, they had to move the cameras around to the side of the salad bar. If they wanted to focus on a specific table, they had to move the cameras to the other side of the salad bar. It was a disastrous decision to put it where it was. It should've been against the rear wall, or on one of the side walls.
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