nick f2007
Sunset and La Brea, Hollywood, 1976
Southern California's booming growth from the 1920s to the 1950s and prominent car culture meant that the drive-in restaurant and coffee shop proliferated. They got fancier through the years, and Douglas Honnold's 1950 Tiny Naylor's branch was not only an example of "Googie" style, but a landmark architectural achievement, period. The building was severely angled so as to present a bold glass front that faced both Sunset and La Brea. and caught traffic from both streets. The recessed spotlights in the marquee made for a glittering scene at night. Many of us howled when the corner was marked for redevelopment in the early 1980s; it didn't matter, because TIny Naylor's was demolished in favor of a typical mini-mall in 1984; on the corner today is an El Pollo Loco branch. (What was wrong with Tiny Naylor's chicken?)
The ice cream parlor is still there (now Mashti Malone's) , and so is Roman's Liquors; the Stardust motel is gone. The high-rise at the corner of Hollywood Blvd in the background (at the time the Safa Medical Center) is often draped with "Tall Wall" adversising. Runyon Canyon with its vast park and open space can be seen in the hilly distance.
If a fire ever broke out here the situation would seem to be well in hand.
Sunset and La Brea, Hollywood, 1976
Southern California's booming growth from the 1920s to the 1950s and prominent car culture meant that the drive-in restaurant and coffee shop proliferated. They got fancier through the years, and Douglas Honnold's 1950 Tiny Naylor's branch was not only an example of "Googie" style, but a landmark architectural achievement, period. The building was severely angled so as to present a bold glass front that faced both Sunset and La Brea. and caught traffic from both streets. The recessed spotlights in the marquee made for a glittering scene at night. Many of us howled when the corner was marked for redevelopment in the early 1980s; it didn't matter, because TIny Naylor's was demolished in favor of a typical mini-mall in 1984; on the corner today is an El Pollo Loco branch. (What was wrong with Tiny Naylor's chicken?)
The ice cream parlor is still there (now Mashti Malone's) , and so is Roman's Liquors; the Stardust motel is gone. The high-rise at the corner of Hollywood Blvd in the background (at the time the Safa Medical Center) is often draped with "Tall Wall" adversising. Runyon Canyon with its vast park and open space can be seen in the hilly distance.
If a fire ever broke out here the situation would seem to be well in hand.