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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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Hot Shoppes – Bethesda, Maryland location, on its last day of operation, 1995
here’s the very first Hot Shoppe ever, Washington, DC, circa 1927
Hot Shoppes is dead, but kinda was reborn in a DC Marriott