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Title: Nightime at Simon's Drive-In
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
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: In the 1930s, Wayne McAllister, the originator of the circular drive-in, designed circular Simon's Drive-in Restaurants in the Streamline Moderne style with a three-layer roof and neon advertising pylon; this style was copied throughout the country.
Simon's, located at 5171 Wilshire Boulevard, is well lit for outside drive-up customers. Cars are parked all around the round-shaped restaurant. The marquee advertises sandwiches, hamburgers, barbecue, and fountain, and signs with prices for food items are hung in a line all across the windowtops.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00007305
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Restaurants-Drive-In-Simon's; S-000-074.8 5x7; S-000-074.7 5x7
CARL0000008052
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/82408
Subject: Simon's (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles)
Drive-in restaurants--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles)
Night photographs
McAllister, Wayne,1907-2000
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1931-1940

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