2 Responses to L.A.’s confusing freeways, December 8, 1958

1. Carol Gwenn says:

   December 8, 2008 at 9:34 am

   Re: the coffee shop ad.
   Just check the copy. It says: “Next to Owl Drugs”. I actually remember this coffee shop: next to what was always known by area residents as “the big drugstore” on the southeast corner of Beverly & LaCienega. If memory serves, you could access the restaurant through the back of the drugstore.
   The drugstore, now just another chain outlet, is still there, its style & hip edge long gone. It stands as a reminder of what we had & will never see again…so sad.
   Keep on doing what you do: people NEED these reminders of a really amazing past in this town.

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2. Arye Michael Bender says:

   December 8, 2008 at 12:38 pm

   Restaurant Row, often the best Los Angeles had to offer in eating establishments, was pretty bad. They were often cavernous, dark places with over-priced mediocre food. Smoke-filled, turning the mostly red upholstered booths a dingy brown.
   This was the era before chain restaurants. Restaurant Row may have even inspired their creations. In the words of John Lennon, ‘Can’t get no worse’.

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