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Title: Jail Cafe, exterior
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Exterior view of the Jail Cafe, located at 4212 Sunset Blvd. 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. Photo dated: August 16, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068649
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Architecture-Programmatic; A-011-944 5x7
CARL0000071491
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106779
Subject: Jail Cafe (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Mimetic architecture--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Sidewalks--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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