Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Bergdorf Goodman

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the ship re-entered civilian service

Long days at sea were obviously the excuse to have parties in the evenings

The café had a concession stall where military men could have their pictures taken with ‘hula girls’ to send home to their families as souvenirs

Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Bergdorf GoodmanThe Toed Inn was an example of LAs famous programmatic or mimetic architecture whimsical restaurants created to look like the food they served. You could walk into the stomach of this rather imposing frog and order frogs legs as well as hamburgers, steaks and seafood. Programmatic architecture blossomed during the 1920s when there was still plenty of space in LA and buildings costs were cheap. The buildings were designed to cater to the citys