L.A. Restaurant History
Today's
L. A. Times has an
interesting article about the history of theme restaurants in Los Angeles. They first became popular in the 1920's.
Excerpt:
L.A.'s oldest theme restaurant is the still-vigorous Tam O'Shanter in Atwater Village. It has a Disney-esque, artfully ramshackle roof that looked hundreds of years old even when the place was built in 1922. (It's probably no accident that Walt Disney was a regular customer for years.)
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