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Title: Diners at Clifton's "Pacific Seas" Cafeteria
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Stewart, Lucille
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1945
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Clifford Clinton, founder of the Clifton's chain, opened L.A.'s first cafeteria, The Cafeteria of the Golden Rule, at 618 S. Olive Street. In 1939, the cafeteria was transformed into the Pacific Seas and redecorated in a Polynesian motif. The restaurant closed in 1960 and was later razed.
Tables are full of diners at the popular eatery, Clifton's "Pacific Seas" Cafeteria. The restaurant's decor, intended to evoke a Polynesian setting, includes floral wallpaper, fake flowers and palm trees, baskets, and the Rain Hut.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088334
Lucille Stewart Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b12_f2_i6; GPC_b12_f2_i6_N
CARL0004952711
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123412
Subject: Clinton's Restaurants Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cafeterias--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles

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