In the early 1930s, this structure housed a restaurant on the ground floor called Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe´, 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. Exterior view of the three-story, 15,000-square-foot Spanish style Chez Roland Beach Club, located at 17575 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Photograph dated October, 1949.
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