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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 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068644
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Architecture-Programmatic; A-011-928 4x5
CARL0000071532
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106815
Subject
Airplane Cafe´ (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Exoticism in architecture--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Airplanes--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles

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