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Title: Simon's Drive-In Café, Wilshire and Fairfax, Los Angeles. 1939
Creator: Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A view from the parking lot of Simon's Drive-In Cafe at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles. The building is round, with a large, tall pylon emerging from the middle with the restaurant's name on it. The building is decorated with words and designs in neon lights. Automobiles are parked in spaces around the building, and people are seated at counters inside.
Simon's Drive-In address from The dream endures: California enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr, p. 187.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 negative. 8 x 10 in (21 x 25 cm)
Identifier: photCL Whitt 1363
173431
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3872
Subject: Restaurants--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Drive-in restaurants--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Circular buildings--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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