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Tiny Naylor's was a restaurant chain in Southern California started in 1949 by William Wallace "Tiny" Naylor and later run by his son Biff Naylor.W.W. Naylor had previously owned more than a dozen Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California. [1]
The restaurant named itself Blue’s again when the Dodgers made it to the World Series in 2018, 2020 and 2024, the latter battling against the New York Yankees. In mid-March 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , as with other restaurants, its locations indefinitely shut down indoor dine-ins. Pink's flagship location closed between mid-March ...
The Jim Henson Company Lot, formerly A&M Studios, is a studio property located just south of the southeast corner of North La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Originally established by film star Charlie Chaplin , the property served as Charlie Chaplin Studios from 1917 to 1953, which later earned the site designation as a Los ...
The restaurant is seen in several movies, including Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones; The Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman; [1] and American History X, starring Edward Norton. Johnie's was also featured in the 1998 film City of Angels and the 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds , both starring Nicolas Cage .
The restaurant was grossing $90,000 monthly during its first year of operations. [5] By the end of 1978, Victoria Station had 97 restaurants, all company owned. [6] The chain was designed to attract members of the baby boom generation. The theme of the restaurant was loosely based on London's Victoria Station.
La Brea Avenue is a prominent north-south thoroughfare in the City of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles County, California. 1927 Los Angeles Times map shows (1) the proposed extension of a 100-foot-wide La Brea Avenue between Jefferson Street through the Baldwin Hills toward Inglewood .
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).
The Hat is a Southern California fast-food restaurant chain specializing in pastrami dip sandwiches. [1] This eatery, once local only to the San Gabriel Valley, [2] has been offering its "World Famous Pastrami" to Southern California residents since 1951. [3] [4] Its customers consume 13 to 15 tons of pastrami per week. [5]