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Title: Airplane Cafe´
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1924
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: The Airplane Cafe´ is a restaurant in the shape of a plane, complete with wings and a propeller. It has a large sign on its roof that reads: "Real CHILI. Good coffee. Special prepared HAMBURGER". On the window, painted with white, it reads: "Girl wanted". The structure has wheels, but rests on raised slabs of wood. It has three small steps at the main entrance. The exact location in Los Angeles is unknown.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068643
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Architecture-Programmatic
CARL0005106465
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107632
Subject: Airplane Cafe´ (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Mimetic architecture--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles

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