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W.W. "Biff" Naylor is a retired restaurant owner in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Oakland, California [ 1 ] in 1939 [ 2 ] and graduated from Pennsylvania State University . [ 3 ] His father W.W. “Tiny” Naylor started Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California in the 1920s, and operated a chain of more than 40 Tiny Naylor's and Biff ...
Tiny Naylor's had a sister chain of Biff's Coffee Shops, named after W.W.'s son Biff Naylor. There were more than 40 Biff's and Tiny Naylor's locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. [ 8 ] In 1999 there was one Tiny Naylor's location remaining in Long Beach, California . [ 9 ]
Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013. [3] On May 5, 2016, the coffee shop was temporarily renamed "Bernie's Coffee Shop" in honor of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The shop retained that name and served as a campaign office until at least June 7, 2016. [4]
Norms Restaurant, Los Angeles, 2009 Pole signs at Pann's Restaurant, Los Angeles, 2009 Corky's Restaurant, Sherman Oaks, 2014. Kerry's Coffee shop (now a Mel's Drive-In), Sherman Oaks (1947) [19] Romeo's Times Square / Johnie's Wilshire (1955) Holly's / Hawthorne Grill (1956) Falcon Coffee Shop, Hawthorne (1956) Norms Restaurant, West Hollywood ...
Los Angeles is home to a bevy of coffee shops, but only one is owned by Quentin Tarantino.. The director’s highly anticipated cafe recently opened adjacent to the newly relaunched Vista Theater ...
The Westwood (two part) Ships CS/CG (Coffee Shop/Chicken Galley) Wilshire Boulevard and Glendon Avenue, was the second to open (1958). It closed on Thursday September 20, 1984 and was demolished shortly after, to make way for a 20 story office building. The Ships at La Cienega Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard, was the last to open (1963).
Googie's Coffee Shop (styled googies) was a small restaurant located at 8100 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles next door to the famous Schwab's Pharmacy at the beginning of the Sunset Strip. It was designed in 1949 by architect John Lautner and lent its name to Googie architecture , a genre of modernist design in the 1950s and 60s.
In 1950, The Pantry moved to its location at 9th and Figueroa, and had since been designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 255, [9] and named the most famous restaurant in Los Angeles. [10] The restaurant was known for serving coleslaw to all patrons during the evening hours, even if they ultimately decide to order breakfast ...