[CityBoyDoug]

After a noir day in LA let's all head out to the Zulu Hut.


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1920s hotspot on Ventura Boulevard in Universal City where black-faced waiters dispensed somewhat incongruous cornpones (Cornmeal bread usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle), squab and fried chicken in thatched huts.
Sometimes called Zululand, this open-air stand with an African jungle theme advertised as “half-mile beyond Universal City on Ventura Boulevard.” Proprietor Raymond McKee dubbed himself the Zulu Chief and waiters in blackface served fried chicken under rustling palms.

The whole affair sounds somewhat embarrassing by today's mores.