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Beers For Cheers

Miss Jerry Stone, of Venice, California, is a pro’s pro [getty]

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Serving Time & Food!

The Jail Café, located at 4212 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. A ‘jailer’ watches from a guard tower on the roof.  Below the tower, a sign reads: ‘Dancing. Famous for their $1.25 dinners. Steak. Chicken. Lobster. Open from 5pm on. No cover charge.‘ Note the caricature faces peeking from behind the barred windows.  Inside – a ‘convict’ takes the customers’ order.  top photo dated – August 16, 1927

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Old Hollywood’s Best Theme Restaurants Specialized in Abductions and Dungeons

Inside the Wild World of L.A.’s Early Theme Restaurants

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Foggy With A Chance of Zodiac Balls

I gay for the bay!

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no US city has views like this!!!!

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always gotta hit up the touristy sites

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I’ve got nothing but love and HAIGHT (that pun will never not be awesome) for this city

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where the streets have names, and are curved, for everyone’s pleasure

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did the Jewish slaves erect this one too?

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the Coppolas own this sweet a$$ building

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this Palace is a hotel!

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lets try 8 mini beers!!

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but will I pass the test????

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or get knocked out?

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or catch on fire?

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but the drinks aren’t the only thing that be loaded

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and who doesn’t want their salad tossed and dressed in front of their own eyes?

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I went NUTS for mini donuts!!!

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you can smell this, right?  or at least my farts from it, right???

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sorry if the puns feel old, and that I’m phoning it in

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but things are on the rise, out there in the Napa Valley

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where the wine flows like overpriced restaurants

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and where the only storms are castle storming

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and all the rooms have views

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and all the hills have (my) eyes

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what, you think I was going to the SF area and do zero Zodiac zsleuthing???

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didn’t find Z, but did go to Lake Berryessa, where those poor kids were stabbed 46 years ago

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place was super creepy & quiet… I was actually a little bit frightened

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but me & the Mrs survived, and rode another vacation off into the glorious sunset

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perv-iously

Old Bay Seasoning

 

A Fine Line Between Love And Haight

 

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Future Perfect

Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1925 master plan for a Los Angeles Civic Center

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1947 plan for the Huntington Hartford Sports Club

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Pereira & Luckman’s 1952 proposal for LAX

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1965 proposal for the Santa Monica Offshore Freeway

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all a part of 

A+D Museum’s Never Built: Los Angeles

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