Porst SP X-Pro Guadalajara Night Club 2
Art Whizin (d. 1994 at age 88) established the Chili Bowl restaurant chain in Los Angeles in 1931, known for its distinctive shape in the form of a chili bowl. Whizin was a 25-year-old former amateur boxer when he established the business on Crenshaw Boulevard near Jefferson Boulevard with funding raised by selling "his wife's wedding ring and his roadster." Other businesses at the time were also modeled with architecture featuring eye-catching architectural depictions of the goods sold including ice a cream cones and coffee kettles.
Chili Bowl restaurants were arranged with 26 stools around a circular counter (no tables) and employed college "kids" as burger flippers. The specialty dish was an open-faced burger smothered in chili and there were 22 restaurants within a decade of the eatery's opening.
Four Chili Bowl structures survive.
Folklore and stories about Whizin and the Chili Bowl include:
-Whizin painted "Pat. Pending" on the side of his eatery to avoid his restaurant's design being copied, resulting in fan mail addressed to "Pat Pending".
-One of the restaurant's slogans was: We cook our beans backwards - you only get hiccups.
-Wikipedia
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f3.8 wide-angle lens and a graduated ND filter on Adox Color Implosion 35mm film.
Porst SP X-Pro Guadalajara Night Club 2
Art Whizin (d. 1994 at age 88) established the Chili Bowl restaurant chain in Los Angeles in 1931, known for its distinctive shape in the form of a chili bowl. Whizin was a 25-year-old former amateur boxer when he established the business on Crenshaw Boulevard near Jefferson Boulevard with funding raised by selling "his wife's wedding ring and his roadster." Other businesses at the time were also modeled with architecture featuring eye-catching architectural depictions of the goods sold including ice a cream cones and coffee kettles.
Chili Bowl restaurants were arranged with 26 stools around a circular counter (no tables) and employed college "kids" as burger flippers. The specialty dish was an open-faced burger smothered in chili and there were 22 restaurants within a decade of the eatery's opening.
Four Chili Bowl structures survive.
Folklore and stories about Whizin and the Chili Bowl include:
-Whizin painted "Pat. Pending" on the side of his eatery to avoid his restaurant's design being copied, resulting in fan mail addressed to "Pat Pending".
-One of the restaurant's slogans was: We cook our beans backwards - you only get hiccups.
-Wikipedia
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f3.8 wide-angle lens and a graduated ND filter on Adox Color Implosion 35mm film.