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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Label this one under 'kitsch'.
The Jail Cafe at 4212 Sunset Blvd. in 1927.
 apl
below: Notice the faux guard in the central tower. The 4212 address is on the white globe below the 'tower'.
lapl
below: Cells for nonsupport and speeding?? This has to be the worst idea for a restaurant ever!
lapl
What did they serve....bread and water? |
Supposedly, the
Jail Cafe was once a real jail. By the 1940's, it was a theater called
The Blackguard Returns. It has been
El Cid since 1961.
El Cid claims that D.W. Griffith screened his film,
Birth of a Nation at 4212 W. Sunset Boulevard. The film premiered at
Clune's Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles in 1915.
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