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Description
The Las Flores Inn, a legendary seafood restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway, is seen here in its original--but expanded--form in the late 1940s, shortly after it was purchased by proprietor Chris Polos. Polos kept the Inn's seal tank (seen here center-left), and barking seals greeted patrons as they parked their cars. The named changed to The Sea Lion Inn in the early 1950s, and went through several iterations on this spot over the ensuing decades--due to either expansion or fire. In 1996, this site opened as Duke's Malibu restaurant.
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