Police stand outside the doorway of the Pacific Palisades garage where the body of Thelma Todd was found Dec. 16, 1935. The garage of Castillo del Mar belonged to the beach home of Roland West, her business partner and manager of her seaside cafe. The newspaper wrote the words "What happened behind these doors?" across the picture for effect.; The three-story, 15,000-square-foot Spanish style Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe´ 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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