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Title: Melody Lane Cafe
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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: Restaurant was the former Coco Tree restaurant, commissioned by Carl Laemmle to architecht Richard Neutra, before major remodeling took place in 1940. After the renovation, the restaurant's facade was curved at the corner and the glass and steel along the front were removed, along with other distiguishing features of Neutra's design.
Exterior view of the Melody Lane Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, formerly the Coco Tree Cafe now remodeled. It was located on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Vine Street. A large billboard on the roof advertises White King Soap.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039921
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Hollywood-Restaurants-Melody Lane
CARL0000049040
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/98970
Subject: Melody Lane (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Williams, Dino archive. Full rights shared.

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