Diners, Restaurants, Cafe & Bar 1930's - 1960's

"International House of Pancakes" began making breakfast memorable since 1958. Their first location was located at 4301 Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake. Fifteen years later, a new marketing campaign introduced the acronym "IHOP", and since then it’s been the name people know as the place they can enjoy breakfast any time of day. The company now has 1,500 locations across the America!

Can someone please recreate this?

Nickodell’s - 1940s

We need more architecture like this in L.A.!! I mean this is the city that invented Hanna-Barbera!

Wich Stand / Architect: Eldon Davis.
Once located at Slauson & Overhill. Now a Simply Wholesome.
Photo: 1961
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VLA is celebrating more GOOGIE architecture! Here’s a double whammy! The Capitol Records Tower (designed by Welton Becket in 1956) directly next door to Dupars at Hollywood and Vine! Googie design was born in the late 1940s and lasting through the 1960s. It featured amoebas and boomerangs, stars and atoms, flying saucers and rockets, satellites, dingbats, spiky balls and shining globes bristling with antennas, sharp angles and trapezoids and zig-zags and diagonals and tilting roofs with spellbinding sputniks!

Sadly this particular Dupars was demolished, BUT LONG LIVE The Tower and let it stand the test of time!

The coffee shop that started the GOOGIE craze! “GOOGIES”, once located on Sunset Strip directly next door to world famous Schwabs Drug Store.

Even if you don’t know the term “Googie,” you know what it is. It is kitschy, modernistic, futuristic, mid-century architecture!

The name “Googie” comes from this long-gone Googie’s coffee shop designed by John Lautner in 1949. These space age structures are quickly vanishing from Southern California. More reasons we need to save what’s left like ~~~~NORMS!~~~~~

CHIPS !!! … Worlds most UNDERRATED Googie Coffee Shop Diner !!! … in Hawthorne SoCal near LAX since 1957 !!! …

Word came in Wednesday afternoon that the legendary Tiki-Ti bar in Los Feliz has closed. The teensy tiny tiki lounge usually opens on Wednesday after their traditional three-day weekend, but a brief note appeared on their Facebook page around 1 p.m. today and regulars started panicking. “The Tiki-Ti is indefinitely closed,” it reads. “We apologize for any inconvenience. We will keep you posted on when we plan to reopen. We thank you for your patience and understanding.”

Three generations of the same family have run the bar since founder Ray Buhen left a gig at the original Don the Beachcomber to open it in 1961. Its famous drinks, the nameplates of regulars on the walls, long vacation closures, and a “smoking allowed” policy have made Tiki Ti one of L.A.’s most unusual bars, and patrons are very protective and concerned.

The final post from the Tiki-Ti before the closure announcement was a line from the stressed out air traffic controller in Airplane! “Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.” I’m hoping they’ve just gone fishing and Los Angeles’ second-oldest tiki bar will be back open soon.

UPDATE: Tiki fiends needn’t panic. According to Tiki-Ti owner Mike Buhen, the bar will open again after undergoing “some restructuring and stuff.” A timeline for its reopening remains unclear.
- See more at: http://www.lamag.com/askchris/legendary-tiki-ti-bar-closes-will-it-return/

GLORY OF GOOGIE !!! … SAMBOS shows us how its done !!!

Here's a St. Louis Starbucks that helped save a mid-20th century modernist edifice..

The Elbo Room ,Fort Lauderdale beach,Florida

Le Baron's Steak House and more.

Architect Richard Crowther designed Googie-type restaurants in Denver contemporary with the Southern California work of Armet and Davis, masters of the genre. Like his west coast brethren, he began in the late 1940s and early 1950s, reaching an apotheosis around 1959, the date of this fine structure. Crowther was remarkably comfortable with graphics, having worked for a neon company in California in the late 1930s. He also practiced there as an architect, before moving permanently to Denver in 1948. Richard Crowther Architectural Records, WH1504, Western History Collection, The Denver Public Library.

Christopher Columbus had three ships and restaurateur Emmett Shipman had three Ships — one in Westwood, one in Culver City and everyone’s favorite, which was the one at Olympic and La Cienega.  Each Ships was open 24 hours and it wasn’t Denny’s. In terms of cuisine, it wasn’t that much better but it felt friendlier and classier.

If you ordered breakfast, they brought you bread instead of toast and you cooked it yourself in the toaster at your table. Every table had one, plus they were all along the counter for the folks sitting there. It was another great place to get a hot turkey sandwich and I remember that a friend of mine liked to go there because they had “the coldest milk in the world.”  The waitresses were all what you’d get if you put out a casting call for “friendly coffee shop waitresses.”

All three Ships Coffee shops were opened by Shipman between 1956 and 1967 and closed within a narrow window in the eighties.  They were noted for their decor and the one at Olympic and La Cienega was used as a location in several movies.  They may be among the “most missed” defunct eateries in all of Southern California. Here’s a look at their classic menu…