Title supplied by cataloger. Harry B. Carpenter founded the Carpenter's chain with his brother Charles and operated many locations in Los Angeles including: Sunset and Vine, Wilshire and Western, Wilshire and La Cienega, Wilshire and Vine, Pico and Vermont, Silver Lake and Glendale and Sunset and Virgil. In 1936, after separating from his brother, Charles E. Carpenter opened three Carpenter's Cafes. A transitional project Carpenter's Village (606 E. Colorado in Glendale) combined a Rite Spot Cafe and Carpenter's drive-in. Next he opened the Rite Spot Cafe in Pasadena, located at 1500 West Colorado Street (now considered Eagle Rock) and the Santa Anitan Cafe at Huntington and Colorado. Looking northwest across the busy intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. A Carpenter's drive-in restaurant and the Moorish style Texaco service station are seen on the right. In the distance is the Gaylord apartment building. Foster and Kleiser billboards for Tecate Beer and U.S. Royal Tires are prominently seen nearby. Photograph dated October 2, 1947.
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