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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
I used to know the guys who have added it to their growing chain of watering holes. Back in 1993 they took over Cacao, a West L.A. coffeeshop that had opened only two or three years before; it was they who made it over in tiki style you see in the pictures. Twenty years on, it still looks almost exactly the same and is still going strong--the last of the 1990s-era independent cafes that used to be scattered all along Santa Monica Boulevard between Centinela and Sawtelle Avenues.
Here's an exterior shot of Cacao I took for my blog several years ago:
and the interior:
(Both own work)
Bobby and Alastair no longer run Cacao, but it's telling that the subsequent owners have seen fit to keep everything as it was. |
Yes, nice, I usually go here when I attend a movie at the theatre up the street a ways!