It was surmised that Thelma Todd may have walked up these steps which lead from her seaside cafe to the road on which the garage where she was found dead was located. Here a man stands part of the way up the steps.; The three-story, 15,000-square-foot Spanish style strusture where the murder took place was located at 17575 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. In the early 1930s, this structure housed a restaurant on the ground floor owned by actress Thelma Todd and her partner Roland West. The duo also held parties in their private nightclub named Joya's, located on the second story near her personal apartment. At the time Todd owned the building, the hexagonal-shaped, third-floor included a dance floor and bandstand., which was famous for its Joya's barbequed steaks.
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