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Versailles on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles Versailles is a chain of three Cuban cuisine restaurants in Los Angeles , California , USA . The first restaurant in this chain opened in 1971 in West Los Angeles , specifically in the Palms district on Venice Blvd, just north of Culver City.
Ships Coffee Shop was a small chain of coffee shops with iconic Modern architecture in Los Angeles, California. The architectural style is classified as Googie Architecture. Ships was especially known for its signage. Martin Stern Jr. was the architect.
The large restaurant seats 370 people and has ornate etched glass and statuettes and features a bakery, a takeout area, a counter window and the ability to host banquets and parties. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded by Felipe A. Valls Sr. (from Santiago de Cuba ) in 1971, Versailles is a popular restaurant among local Cuban exiles and tourists for its Cuban ...
In 1950, The Pantry moved to its location at 9th and Figueroa, and has since been designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 255, [8] and named the most famous restaurant in Los Angeles. [9] The restaurant was known for serving coleslaw to all patrons during the evening hours, even if they ultimately decide to order breakfast ...
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 ...
The restaurant was described as one of the last vestiges of Old Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, with an interior that looks like a "slightly down-at-the-heels Disney version of a twilight forest". [23] In June 2006, co-owner Robert Clinton took final steps to purchase the Broadway building they had been leasing for 71 years.
At one recent death cafe, Lui recalled, there were 30 people, “and that was a little too much.” Michael Allison, 62, laughs a little while sharing with the group of participants in the death cafe.
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.