Image / Carpenter’s Drive-in Restaurant, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, Los Angeles. 1932

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Title: Carpenter’s Drive-in Restaurant, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, Los Angeles. 1932
Creator: Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A slightly elevated view of Carpenter's Drive-in Restaurant at the corner of Sunset and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The lot around the octagonal building is filled with parked automobiles, and there are a few servers among the vehicles. The lot behind the restaurant is vacant, and behind that is a netted-in driving range.
Library has three copies of this print, one enlarged to 7 x 9 in (17 x 23 cm).The early years of Carpenter's drive-in are described in The American drive-in restaurant, Michael Karl Witzel, 2002.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 negative. 5 x 7 in (13 x 17 cm)
Identifier: photCL Whitt 0724
2484
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3415
Subject: Restaurants--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Drive-in restaurants--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Octagonal buildings--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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