tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38557837167993550982024-03-13T04:54:30.152-07:00Technospinach50% original contentTechnospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-11079354768143578202021-05-30T22:28:00.020-07:002024-01-15T17:45:38.316-08:00Happy 75th Birthday, Tail o' the Pup<div><i>NOTE: For the most up-to-date research about Tail o' the Pup, check out <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~henrymuller/tail_o_the_pup.html">this page</a> on my new website Virtual Boulevard.</i></div><div><br /></div>The Tail o' the Pup hot dog stand opened 75 years ago as of this month, and I wanted to try and compile a history of it. I'm going to try and let most of the sources speak for themselves, but interject when I think I can clear something up or fill in gaps.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1VvxeXUnTY/YLM8bww_LtI/AAAAAAAAAw0/k3ZcTuvGMIU0G1kRulzzSgVcNThLF-ZOwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/p15831coll13_1799_full.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1399" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1VvxeXUnTY/YLM8bww_LtI/AAAAAAAAAw0/k3ZcTuvGMIU0G1kRulzzSgVcNThLF-ZOwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h274/p15831coll13_1799_full.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tail o' the Pup in 1979. <a href="https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll13/id/1799">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>1946: The Premiere</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Tail o' the Pup opened on May 15, 1946 at 311 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles (the southwest corner of La Cienega and Beverly Place). The grand opening was in the style of a movie premiere, with floodlights and celebrity appearances.<br /><br />Tail o' the Pup's name was a play on "Tail o' the Cock," the name of a fancier restaurant a few blocks south. Tail o' the Cock was part of La Cienega's <a href="https://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2014/06/fish-shanty-and-kooky-world-of-la.html">Restaurant Row</a>, and Tail o' the Pup was almost like an architectural punchline to the area.<div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Hot dog stand premiered." <i>Hollywood Citizen-News</i>, May 16, 1946.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCJ-SAcVs3Q/YLR8UHjD4RI/AAAAAAAAAxI/XXhouqbyVJoTKJ6sU7i8Tv5kBr7c5ougQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1131/1946%2BMay%2B16%2B-%2BHollywood_Citizen_News_Thu__May_16__1946_%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1131" height="305" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCJ-SAcVs3Q/YLR8UHjD4RI/AAAAAAAAAxI/XXhouqbyVJoTKJ6sU7i8Tv5kBr7c5ougQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h305/1946%2BMay%2B16%2B-%2BHollywood_Citizen_News_Thu__May_16__1946_%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote><blockquote>Keenan Wynn takes a bite from Mary Anderson's "Piggy Pup" while Jack "The Outlaw" Buetel waits to buy a "Cheesy Pup" at the Tail o' the Pup, which opened last night at 311 N. La Cienega Blvd. with searchlights, plush carpets and liveried doormen. The enterprise is run by two ex-GI's, Harry Engel and Ed Striker. The weenie emporium building is shaped like a big hot dog with roll and pickle in the middle.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Milestones on the road to somewhere or other." <i>Los Angeles Daily News</i>, May 18, 1946.</b></div><blockquote><blockquote>A dream that had its origin in a foxhole came true for two ex-GIs, Harry Engel and Ed Striker. They had a Hollywood premiere, with arc lights, red plush carpet, liveried doorman, movie stars, autograph seekers—for their hot dog stand at Beverly and La Cienega. Shaped like a wiener on a bun, the place, which normally accommodates half a dozen persons at a time, standing, was surrounded by nearly 400 and the police had to be called to restore order. Their "twin super pup," incidentally, costs 35 cents.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Hot-dog premiere." <i>Lubbock Avalanche-Journal</i>, June 2, 1946.</b></div><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> The film colony is getting back to normal. We received an invitation to attend the Hollywood premiere of the Tail of the Pup, world's most unusual hot dog stand. The invitation read: "There will be stars, red plush carpet, uniformed doorman, bright lights, photographers, and autograph hunters." </blockquote><blockquote>What! No Lassie?</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote></div><div>(The piece in the Avalanche-Journal was from a syndicated column. Engel and Striker didn't send out invitations as far as Lubbock.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I know of four photographs of this grand opening. One is the close-up shot from the <i>Hollywood Citizen-News</i> above.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next appeared in <i>LIFE Magazine</i>'s June 10, 1946 issue as the header image for an article called "California Boom."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AFlGRUsQoDk/YLR8wdZzOXI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/HUvIAyEBHfAGaUvEZnxMbL39wgBcBWiAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1334/ca_boom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AFlGRUsQoDk/YLR8wdZzOXI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/HUvIAyEBHfAGaUvEZnxMbL39wgBcBWiAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w384-h400/ca_boom.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: <i>LIFE</i>, vol. 20 no. 23 (June 10, 1946). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xkkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false">Retrieval link.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The third photograph eventually made it into the AP News photo archive. I don't know where it was originally published in 1946.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o66NPgb-ctU/YLR9OAp0iWI/AAAAAAAAAxY/k2EciM85GfwhnVFDAETbN_6KdqS4IWAYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1364/1946%2B-%2Bgrand%2Bopening.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1364" height="318" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o66NPgb-ctU/YLR9OAp0iWI/AAAAAAAAAxY/k2EciM85GfwhnVFDAETbN_6KdqS4IWAYgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h318/1946%2B-%2Bgrand%2Bopening.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/unique-hot-dog-stand-los-angeles-usa-6670296a">Source</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The fourth photo is available on the current Tail o' the Pup website, but I can't find it anywhere else.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2AA_IKHFsSs/YLR9s1i8A2I/AAAAAAAAAxg/-VxNYr-JZsEfLYBpf_q-0kZcFPwQ08C0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/1946%2B-%2Bfrom%2Btail%2Bo%2Bthe%2Bpup%2Bdot%2Bcom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1000" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2AA_IKHFsSs/YLR9s1i8A2I/AAAAAAAAAxg/-VxNYr-JZsEfLYBpf_q-0kZcFPwQ08C0wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h297/1946%2B-%2Bfrom%2Btail%2Bo%2Bthe%2Bpup%2Bdot%2Bcom.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tailothepup.com/">Source</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As for Tail o' the Pup's founders, Harry Engel and Ed Striker: details are scarce about exactly what role each of them played in the restaurant's development and how long their business relationship lasted. In fact, I haven't been able to find any additional biographical information about Ed Striker at all.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I <i>was</i> able to find more details about Harry Engel. In 1946, <a href="http://theearlyyearsofkuam.blogspot.com/2009/12/kuams-founder-harry-engel-part-1.html">he was working at the KVEN radio station</a> in Ventura, which he would eventually manage. Engel would go on to found KUAM, the first commercial radio station in Guam, in 1954; this is perhaps what he is most remembered for today ("Shangri-La," <i>TIME Magazine</i>, February 1, 1954). It's still unclear how involved Engel was in the day-to-day operations of Tail o' the Pup during its first few years. For additional information about Harry Engel, the best source is undoubtedly Fred Nelson's research into the history of KUAM, some of which is available at <a href="http://theearlyyearsofkuam.blogspot.com/">theearlyyearsofkuam.blogspot.com</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>The Hot Dog Goes Hollywood</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div>Tail o' the Pup's glamorous grand opening appears to have been representative of a 1940s micro-trend: upscale hot dogs. The following two articles give a contemporary view of the situation.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Hotdogs, Peanut Butter, Cheese Corn and Hollywood Nightmares." <i>The Ottawa Journal</i>, February 3, 1949.</b></div></div><div><div></div></div><blockquote><div><div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div><div>The lowly hotdog has gone Hollywood. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div>Hotdog stands, like supermarkets and mortuaries, have blossomed into supercolossal projects in the cinema city. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div>Nobody hears of a wiener-and-bun, with mustard on the side. Here man bites dog that's guzzied up with everything from pineapple to peanut butter. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>Premiere, No Less</i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div>The ultimate in hotdogtoriums is the Hot Dog Show, nestled among swanky restaurants on La Cienega Blvd., or Restaurant Row. This place, the size of a large postage stamp, had a premiere decorated by six searchlights, a radio broadcast and movie stars in orchids and limousines. …</div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><i>Recipes Secret</i></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><div>The manager of this glamorous establishment is Al Melchior, who used to be Ann Sothern's agent. He still is business manager for a pack of celebrities. Mr. Melchior says he loves to cook and spent years blending his hotdog sauces, recipes secret. </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><div>Stars like Ginger Rogers, Van Johnson, Rosalind Russell, Marilyn Maxwell, and Mickey Rooney drop around, and the stand's parking lot usually is filled with limousines. </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><div>Another hotdog stand is the Tail o' the Pup, perched near the swanky Tail o' the Cock restaurant. Its piece de resistance is the twin-super: two hotdogs bathed in mustard, relish, onion, cheese sauce, chopped nuts and wrapped in bacon (50 cents). This doggerie is built in the shape of a hotdog, and draws crowds of tourists who've heard things look like that out here.</div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><div></div></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b>"Well, Medium and RARE." Paul V. Coates, <i>The Mirror</i>, September 23, 1950.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>The successful social climb of the frankfurter will never cease to amaze me. Not since Baron Leone has anything come up so fast.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>It all started when F.D.R. served them on a bun, with a pickle in the middle, for the King and Queen of England. Hot dogs have been getting out of hand ever since. And this can be messy.</p><p>I dimly recall the days when a weenie was the working-man's appetizer.</p><p><i>It's Gone Elite</i></p><p>For a nickel, you were served a limp sausage on an unenthusiastic bun. And, you could wash away the aftertaste with a horrible dye of razzberry ice water for another two cents.</p><p>The hot dog has gone elite since then. Now, we erect stucco shrines to this peculiar conglomeration of minced meats.</p><p>It is a matter of public record that I barely winced when somebody opened a plush stand called Tail o' the Pup. "To each his own," I remember saying with a brave little shrug.</p><p>Then came the Hot Dog Show, an ornate palace on La Cienega Blvd. And still later, the Hot Dog Follies opened further up the street. Here, the frankfurter is produced with all the flourish of Flo Ziegfeld. …</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p></p><div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>A Second Pup?</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div>Just a few months after Tail o' the Pup's grand opening, in July 1946, a permit was filed to build a hot dog stand at 1720 Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, Los Angeles. The business name on the permit was "Tail o' the Pup Co." and the signature might read "Harry Engel." Whoever filed the permit, their address looks to be 10805 ½ Lindbrook Drive. (Unfortunately, the original Tail o' the Pup building permits are not available online for comparison.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LsCP1QVWP4I/YLR_U3B0WAI/AAAAAAAAAxo/39RGXdRxNSosPoSuHoaEXZaONrHZbjy3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1946%2B-%2Bnew%2Bconstruction%2B7%2B22%2B1946.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1276" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LsCP1QVWP4I/YLR_U3B0WAI/AAAAAAAAAxo/39RGXdRxNSosPoSuHoaEXZaONrHZbjy3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w249-h400/1946%2B-%2Bnew%2Bconstruction%2B7%2B22%2B1946.png" width="249" /></a></div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Click for larger image. <a href="https://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/">Source.</a></div><br />This is actually the most interesting thing that I learned about while doing this research. There wasn't always just one Tail o' the Pup — at some point, there were at least two, with this one in Venice having been built less than a year after what was presumably the original on La Cienega. This fact doesn't usually make it into overviews of Tail o' the Pup's history, although it is mentioned in one secondary source that I've found: <a href="https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/hot-dog-shaped-building-lincoln-venice/">this 2017 blog post</a> by Chris Nichols.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Tail o' the Pup in Venice was still around in 1950. It appeared in a list of local merchants in a newspaper advertisement (see below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5Px19FeF7c/YMVktkBQc5I/AAAAAAAAAzs/PYEBLC64k7A2Y4eyXEH25bw5UJ-0KbMHACLcBGAsYHQ/s1504/sponsors.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1504" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5Px19FeF7c/YMVktkBQc5I/AAAAAAAAAzs/PYEBLC64k7A2Y4eyXEH25bw5UJ-0KbMHACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/sponsors.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, May 24, 1950.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />The Venice Pup would eventually be repainted and become a restaurant called Pinocchio's. Here are the only photos I've found of it:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ARxxL0HLrc/YLR_rgIUxOI/AAAAAAAAAxw/qR-LQ8oZkxMA9qWlxbI82HU39G9h2e2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ARxxL0HLrc/YLR_rgIUxOI/AAAAAAAAAxw/qR-LQ8oZkxMA9qWlxbI82HU39G9h2e2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/p1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfiyJGTF9b8/">Source.</a> Date given as 1971. Note that Pinocchio's appears to be up for lease.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u0D8JHdYyGI/YLR_3bt4ugI/AAAAAAAAAx0/OkZi_nIpgZcGVxsYoz_BeSHo03JnLft6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1080" height="281" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u0D8JHdYyGI/YLR_3bt4ugI/AAAAAAAAAx0/OkZi_nIpgZcGVxsYoz_BeSHo03JnLft6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h281/p2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UUUj0B3vw/">Source.</a> Date given as 1972.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I have yet to find a definitive date for when Tail o' the Pup became Pinocchio's, or even a better lower bound than 1950, because all the archived building permits after the original one don't specify the name of the restaurant. However, because of the complete lack of information about this Venice Tail o' the Pup, I'm guessing it became Pinocchio's (or some unknown intermediate restaurant?) soon after 1950. I also haven't been able to find a photo of the Venice hot dog stand when it was still a Tail o' the Pup (and any such photo could easily be mislabeled as one of the La Cienega stand).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />Pinocchio's became the Great Western Steak and Hoagie Company, a Philly cheesesteak stand, in 1973 (according to the Hoagie Company's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hoagiesvenice/">Facebook page</a>). That restaurant is still around today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>1949–1972: </b><b>The Quiet Years</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Dining Around Town." Paul V. Coates, <i>The Mirror</i>, January 25, 1949.</b></div></b> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This ridiculous business of frost in Southern California has got to stop. It is more serious than I realized. The chill has already damaged our citrus crop. Now it is cutting into our major industry—hot dog stands! Customers are staying away in droves from these sidewalk cafes.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The other morning I stopped by to discuss this with John Dally, who owns the Tail o' the Pup on La Cienega. I had only the best intentions, but Dally and I didn't hit it off too well.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Maybe it was the hour. I got there at 8:30 in the a.m. which is bad time for me to get anywhere. A small cup of coffee would have made me reasonably coherent. But Dally wasn't serving.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When I got there he was busily hosing down his brief lawn and I had to conduct an interview by following in his damp wake. It got my feet very wet and I am sensitive to wet feet at this unchic hour.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>He Wasn</i>'<i>t Talking</i></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> At any rate, our conversation got nowhere important. Dally's little spot is nationally famous for imaginative hot dogs. The Tail o' the Pup serves almost a dozen variations of the red hot. All at modest prices and with very fancy names.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> As a starter, there is the Old Fashioned. This is a simple little dish of hot dog, smothered in relish, chopped onions and mustard. It costs 20 cents.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> The ultimate in Tail o' the Pup dining is the Twin-Super, which is two dogs bathed in mustard, relish, onion, cheese sauce, chopped nuts and wrapped in a bacon strip. This elaborate delicacy is .50.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Dally wouldn't give me any information on the sauces he blends. He had a strong suspicion that I might be a rival hot dog man looking for tips. </div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So by 1949, Tail o' the Pup was being managed by a man identified by Paul V. Coates as John Dally. I say "identified by" because a 1949 building permit for an addition to Tail o' the Pup lists the restaurant's owner as "Roy G. Dally" (below). (Maybe the reason that Paul Coates and Dally didn't "hit it off" is because Coates got Dally's name wrong… or maybe John and Roy were related).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGLL8iVGbyU/YLSAXNplg3I/AAAAAAAAAyA/9-AtPwfWiaEGvqPy2NGqxVmZIiT1aIj4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1949%2B-%2BCERTIFICATE%2BOF%2BOCCUPANCY%2BSubmit%2B%2B11-14-1949%2B1949LA18166.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="2048" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGLL8iVGbyU/YLSAXNplg3I/AAAAAAAAAyA/9-AtPwfWiaEGvqPy2NGqxVmZIiT1aIj4ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h271/1949%2B-%2BCERTIFICATE%2BOF%2BOCCUPANCY%2BSubmit%2B%2B11-14-1949%2B1949LA18166.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/" style="text-align: left;">Source</a></div></blockquote>The level of news coverage received by Tail o' the Pup entered a lull after the 1940s, at least when it comes to articles that have been preserved digitally. I've found very few accounts from the 1950s and 1960s.<br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote>At some point during this time period, probably the early 1970s, <a href="http://www.dancehistoryproject.org/index-of-organizations/veloz-and-yolanda-dance-company/">Veloz and Yolanda</a> took over Tail o' the Pup. They were a ballroom-dancing duo famous during the 1930s and 1940s, even featured on the cover of <i>LIFE</i> <i>Magazine</i> (October 30, 1939).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>"Lee Graham's Man About Town." <i>Hollywood Studio Magazine</i>, February 1972.</b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you stop at the Tail o' the Pup on La Cienega and the woman who serves your hot dog looks familiar, she should.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A generation ago she was half of the world's most famous dance team, Veloz and Yolanda.</div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: center;"><b>"On the Town by Charles McHarry." <i>New York Daily News</i>, January 10, 1973.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote><blockquote>Jose Greco said at Inn of the Clock that his longtime friends, Veloz and Yolanda, the famous ballroom team, are now comfortably semiretired. They own a successful hot dog stand, Tail of the Pup, in Hollywood.</blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b>"Dorothy Manners' Hollywood." <i>The Scranton Tribune</i>, December 23, 1973.</b></p><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote>Wonder how many of the Los Angeles locals know that the once famous dance team of Veloz and Yolanda, long the star attraction at top night clubs, own the hot dog stand, Tail of the Pup, at the corner of La Cienega and Beverly Blvd. And what's more, Yolanda shows up now and then and does some serving herself.</blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Veloz and Yolanda's involvement with Tail o' the Pup was the hardest part of this blog post to verify from contemporary sources. These three syndicated gossip columns are the only mentions of it that I've found from before the 1980s, when their ownership was already being referred to in the past tense.<br /><blockquote><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>1972–1986: </b><b>Enter Eddie Blake</b></h3></blockquote>Sometime in the early- to mid-1970s, a man named Eddie Blake took over Tail o' the Pup.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Now, depending on which article you read, you may find any one of several exact years given for this event. A 1982 article said that Blake purchased the stand "10 years ago" ("Tail o' Pup Vendor Recalls Pony Ride," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 4, 1982), and this is the earliest source I can find that gives any kind of date. However, 1972 doesn't line up with the Veloz and Yolanda gossip clippings that stretch all the way to December 1973 (of course, those certainly might have not been accurate).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A 2005 article gave the date as 1978 ("New Digs for Tail o' the Pup?" <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, November 10, 2005). The first mention in print I've found of Eddie Blake owning Tail o' the Pup was, in fact, from 1978, leaving this year as an upper bound ("Hot Dog Stand Doesn't Relish Lawsuit," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, June 20, 1978).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A 2016 article ("Hot dog! Tail O' the Pup is back," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, October 15, 2016) gave a date of 1970 instead (which disagrees with the Veloz and Yolanda clippings completely).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.lamag.com/digestblog/tail-o-the-pup-reopening-1933-group/">This article</a> from 2018 gives the date as 1976.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Los Angeles building permit records are, unfortunately, no help in this case. There's a gap in the records from 1949 to 1977, and even those 1977 records only identify the restaurant's owner as "Island Properties" (probably the owner of the land that Tail o' the Pup sat on).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Cutting the Mustard as Historic Site." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, June 30, 1980.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i524yTZHddY/YLSBGPursgI/AAAAAAAAAyI/vQnz07OTOosVTFlv5_qnIhWzSbn-sP6mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1050/1980%2BJun%2B30%2B-%2Bhistoric_site.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="1050" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i524yTZHddY/YLSBGPursgI/AAAAAAAAAyI/vQnz07OTOosVTFlv5_qnIhWzSbn-sP6mgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h297/1980%2BJun%2B30%2B-%2Bhistoric_site.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>One of the more venerable pop art structures is the Tail o' the Pup, a hot dog stand at 311 N. La Cienega Blvd., shaped, naturally, as a huge hot dog in a roll coated with, of course, mustard.<br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><i>In the 'Funk' Style</i> <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i></i></blockquote></blockquote>In recognition of its contribution to the Los Angeles landscape, the stand has been recommended by the city's Cultural Heritage Board for historic-cultural status, The designation now goes to the City Council for action. <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>The board cited the 20 x 20-foot stucco stand just north of Beverly Boulevard as "one of the last remaining examples (in Los Angeles) of programmatic architecture" and "a remarkable piece of pop architecture." The style also is known as "funk." <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>Whatever it is called, the stand's survival as a living landmark appears to be based less on the huge stucco hot dog and roll sculpted on a chickenwire frame and more on the Hoffman NC7 (natural casing, 7-inch long), all beef boiled and imaginatively dressed hot dogs served alfresco. <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>About 400 of the hot dogs, along with 200 hamburgers and indeterminate amounts of french fries, tuna salad, soda, orange drink, coffee and pickles, are served over the counter daily from 5:30 in the morning to midnight, to a faithful clientele.<br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>"Aside from the architecture, this place is a part of the history of L.A. It is a people place, a fun place, and for that reason alone it should be saved," exclaims Bernard Zimmerman as he munches on a No. 5 (the baseball special: a hot dog coated with mustard, relish and onions for 90 cents). <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>An architect and planner with an office a few blocks away at 8322 Beverly Blvd., Zimmerman and an associate, Phillip Hawkins, helped draft and submit the application on behalf of the stand to the cultural heritage board. "We enthusiastically received it," says Ileana Welch, coordinator for the board. <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>The application was prompted by rumors that the stand might be swallowed up for a hotel and parking garage complex proposed for the northwest corner of La Cienega and Beverly boulevards. The rumors were partially true, but thanks to Zimmerman and the site's understanding owners and developers, the tentative plans for the complex now save the stand. <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>"This place can't go. I signed a petition to save it. I love it," says Beth Kudlicki while eating a No. 8 (the red eye: a hot dog with mustard, relish, onions and tomato for $1.05) and sharing a cup of chili with Don Umemoto, a friend. The two estimate they are there at least three times a week for lunch, eating at one of eight tables at the side and rear of the stand. … <br /><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote>The customer of longest standing is claimed by Betty Tracy, who lives two blocks away and has been coming to the stand since it opened in 1946. "It really is pretty much the same as then," she says. "The people are friendly. There's lots of talk and the hot dogs, I love them." <br />"Most of my customers are regulars," says Eddie Blake, the stand's owner, as he takes orders over a counter cut into the stucco hot dog and roll, He writes the orders down in shorthand on a paper plate ("to eat here") or on a brown paper bag ("to go") and hands them to his son, Dennis, who works the grill. …</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Unfortunately, some of the events predicted in this article would not come to pass. Tail o' the Pup would not be granted historic-cultural status by the city council, although the attempt seems to have generated enough publicity that several articles since then have incorrectly described the stand as having been declared a landmark. Tail o' the Pup would also indeed be displaced by the hotel built at La Cienega and Beverly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"></blockquote>Also in 1981, Tail o' the Pup was captured by noted roadside photographer John Margolies.<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ctEOBfiKq8Y/YKnrsz3SBKI/AAAAAAAAAvY/ZJdhXcauWBM30korrC5ojyKjECIerurmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/service-pnp-mrg-07400-07406v.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ctEOBfiKq8Y/YKnrsz3SBKI/AAAAAAAAAvY/ZJdhXcauWBM30korrC5ojyKjECIerurmACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h278/service-pnp-mrg-07400-07406v.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2017709498/">Source</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Tail o' Pup Vendor Recalls Pony Ride." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 4, 1982.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> In the lengthening shadow of the Beverly Center shopping mall, Eddie Blake sells hot dogs, schmoozes with passersby … and waits. His Tail o' the Pup hot dog counter—a West Los Angeles landmark since 1946—may soon give way to a 10-story hotel, and Blake has no idea where or when he will move the frankfurter-shape stand. "Who knows with these big-time developers?" he said, pouring coffee for an early morning customer. "It could be next year. I don't know … I have no control over these things." </blockquote><blockquote> When Blake does move, it will be the end of an era. His takeout counter is the last reminder of a colorful intersection at Beverly and La Cienega boulevards that once entertained families with an amusement park and pony ride. </blockquote><blockquote><i>Parks and Ponies Long Gone </i></blockquote><blockquote>The park and ponies vanished years ago, casualties of the new, $100-million shopping center, which has begun to inflate land values—and rents—on nearby streets. </blockquote><blockquote>The Pup, as it is called, has flourished in the same location for 36 years under a variety of owners. Designed by architect Milton Black, the food stand opened with Klieg lights and a celebrity bash in June, 1946. It has gained international recognition as an example of "funk" architecture. </blockquote><blockquote>Blake bought the properly 10 years ago from dance celebrities Yolanda and Veloz, and has been selling hot dogs ever since. When plans for the hotel were announced, the developers promised him time to find a new location. </blockquote><blockquote>Another place just might not be the same, Blake said ruefully. For years customers have identified the Pup with the La Cienega location, and Blake is not optimistic that he could afford another spot on the boulevard. "Look at the size of that thing," he said, gesturing toward the Beverly Center. "Do you think these little stores up and down the street are going to last long with land values shooting up? People like me, we might not have a chance." </blockquote><blockquote>Blake, a wiry, combative fellow, said he asked developer Sheldon Gordon for permission last year to move into the posh Beverly Center, claiming that his business is a landmark which should be preserved. </blockquote><blockquote>Gordon said he considered the idea—and a similar proposal to install the old pony ride in the center—but "logistical and economic problems" killed both plans, "I recognize the historic importance of the Tail o' the Pup," Gordon said. "We made an effort, but I think the owner knows that he'll have to move. And we'll cooperate with him, too." </blockquote><blockquote><i>Pup Compared to Brown Derby</i></blockquote><blockquote>Friends of the distinctive food stand asked the city to declare it a cultural landmark last year so the structure would not be destroyed. Ileana Welch, director of the Cultural Affairs Board, said the stand "is of genuine landmark quality. … It's a classic example of the programmatic architecture in postwar Los Angeles, along with the Brown Derby and others." </blockquote><blockquote>The City Council, which gives final approval to landmark buildings, decided last year to postpone a decision until Blake's hot dog stand is relocated. </blockquote><blockquote>If Blake is sentimental about the past, he seems determined not to show it. The Beverly Center is "a good thing for the neighborhood," he insisted. </blockquote><blockquote>"If you're going to upgrade this area, hell, you can't have pony rides and hot dog stands. You gotta be realistic." </blockquote><blockquote><i>A Reverie of Places and Times </i></blockquote><blockquote>Then a crony who stopped by for a cup of coffee recalled that he used to bring his children to the pony ride on Sundays, and suddenly Blake, too, recalled the past: "I wish that pony ride, that park were still here, you bet I do. And I remember this street when it really was Restaurant Row, with places you'd be proud to go to." </blockquote><blockquote>Lost in a reverie of places and times not so long ago, Blake watched the traffic roar by and laughed. "There's certain things you can't improve," he said, staring patiently at the traffic … and waiting.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Note that this article mentions in passing that Tail o' the Pup was "designed by architect Milton Black." I'll have more to say about that in a postscript (spoiler alert: it's an example of a mistake that's persisted for the last forty years). Also, for more information about the "amusement park and pony ride" that the Beverly Center shopping mall replaced, I recommend the YouTube video <a href="https://youtu.be/UTCFhKqjZms">"Defunctland: The History of Beverly Park Kiddieland"</a> as well as the book <a href="https://www.facebook.com/beverlyparkkiddieland/"><i>Beverly Park: LA's Kiddieland, 1943–74</i></a> by Jay Jennings.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Eating Away at Oddball Architecture." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, July 20, 1985.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvOTaDOSUrQ/YKnrA_WoC0I/AAAAAAAAAvQ/7gegd1IOPZ02jDxjHxT9F6XW1XeO4uVXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1318/1985%2BJul%2B20%2B-%2Boddball.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvOTaDOSUrQ/YKnrA_WoC0I/AAAAAAAAAvQ/7gegd1IOPZ02jDxjHxT9F6XW1XeO4uVXwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h223/1985%2BJul%2B20%2B-%2Boddball.jpg" /></a></div></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> One 17-foot-long hot dog—to go. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That was the disturbing order that Eddie Blake received the other day at his Tail o' the Pup, the 39-year-old stand shaped like a king-size hot dog (with mustard). </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Blake, who leases the location on La Cienega Boulevard, was told he must move his cement bun by Sept. 1 so the site can become part of a development consisting of an 11-story hotel and a second Ma Maison restaurant, which will be shaped like an expensive French restaurant. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Stationed inside his steel reinforced frankfurter the other day, Blake admitted this is the biggest crisis ever faced by the Pup—bigger even than the time a woman walked head-first into the protruding dog and sued (she won an undisclosed sum). </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>'Save the Hot Dog'</i> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"People tell me, 'Let’s save the landmark. Let's save the hot dog,'" said Blake. "I hope I can—if not here, then I hope I can move it somewhere else." </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If the Pup is unable to find a home, Southern California will have lost one of the last survivors of an era when merchants tried to catch the eye of motorists with buildings shaped like doughnuts, frogs (Toed Inn), igloos, farm animals (the Pig Cafe offered service through its snout), shoes, coffee cups, jails, pumpkins, dogs, cameras and zeppelins. … </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, whose district includes the Pup, said rising property values on the Westside contributed to the stand's problems. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Investor confidence in West Los Angeles is both a blessing and a curse," he noted, "A curse in the sense that we sometimes see old neighborhood businesses disappear." … </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A few years ago, it appeared that the Pup might also relocate to the nearby Beverly Center, then under construction. However, Blake and Beverly Center developer Sheldon Gordon were unable to reach an agreement. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If Blake is uprooted, he points out that it wouldn't be difficult to deliver his big frankfurter somewhere else. "The dog's not in concrete," he said. "I got a hook on top. All I'd have to do is bring in a crane and haul it away." …</div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>1986–2005: </b><b>From La Cienega to San Vicente</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Tail o' the Pup's Future Is On a Roll." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, December 13, 1986.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3Od0THBqDI/YLKo7s24nlI/AAAAAAAAAwM/W9OItZpJcugDp6dpuOkqRN8RQt9dSSFrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1444/relocated_totp.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1444" height="281" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3Od0THBqDI/YLKo7s24nlI/AAAAAAAAAwM/W9OItZpJcugDp6dpuOkqRN8RQt9dSSFrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h281/relocated_totp.png" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Hot dogs and historic preservation are being served up again with mustard and relish at the Tail o' the Pup. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The enticing fast-food stand in the shape of a giant hot dog coated with mustard in a fluffy bun is steaming at a new location, on the west side of N. San Vicente Boulevard just above Beverly Boulevard. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An architectural and gourmand landmark, the 17-foot-long stucco hot dog and roll sculpted on a chicken-wire frame survived as an outgoing order from its previous site a few blocks away on La Cienega Boulevard. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The stand almost was gobbled up there in a real estate transaction—ironically, to make way for a rich architectural souffle consisting of a new Ma Maison restaurant crowned by a multi-storied luxury hotel. … </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Tail o' the Pup has been one of the more venerable [programmatic food stands], pampered for nearly two decades by operator Eddie Blake with the help of his son, Dennis, and championed as a landmark by preservationists and customers. Its economics also have been aided by its status as a setting for TV commercials. When the stand was first threatened with extinction six years ago, local architect/activist Bernard Zimmerman led an effort to get the city's Cultural Heritage Board to designate it a historic-cultural monument. But because the stand was then existing on a month-to-month lease, the petition was turned down. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The repainted and patched-up stand is now anchored to its new site by a five-year lease, along with steel reinforcing bars and the continuing love and affection of customers and preservationists. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And though the kitschy stand still does not qualify for consideration by the city as an official monument, it is nonetheless a local architectural and social landmark to be cherished, preferably while consuming a hot dog.</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></blockquote><p>Tail o' the Pup's new address would be 329 North San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood. It would remain at this location for 19 more years. </p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>2005: The Closure</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.chowhound.com/post/tail-o-pup-closing-30-days-75127">"Tail O' The Pup CLOSING in 30 days."</a> Posting by "westside chub" on chowhound.com, November 5, 2005.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote>Stopped by the Tail this afternoon & I over heard Dennis Blake, the owner with his father, Eddie Blake telling a diner that he is being forced to close in 30 days. Another institution being destroyed by a developer. Evidently, the hospital( Sinai ) sold the property to Regent Development Co. who will re=do the whole corner. What next, the Apple Pan, Pink's? 55 years of serving dogs and then adios.Maybe they can find another location to move the Pup just as they did the last time. Does anybody have an idea or location for these guys? Let's save the Pup.</blockquote></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b>"New Digs for Tail o' the Pup? Internet gossip may complicate a possible relocation of the popular fast-food stand after it is forced from its spot in West Hollywood." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, November 10, 2005.</b></p><p></p><blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>Talk about the tale wagging the pup.</p><p>Quite frankly, the owner of the landmark Tail o' the Pup hadn't expected the story of the upcoming closure of his West Hollywood hot dog stand to be bandied about so soon. And with the word out, he certainly wasn't viewing his next meeting with his landlord with much relish.</p><p>That's because Dennis Blake is still negotiating with the owners of the San Vicente Boulevard site on which his distinctive, hot dog-shaped eatery sits to move it to a permanent location.</p><p>"We haven't told anybody. We haven't told anybody," Blake said, saying it twice Wednesday for emphasis. "We don't want to burn any bridges at this point. Landlords can be nasty if they want to be. But they have some other property they want us to move to."</p><p>Blake fielded a steady stream of inquiries from news outlets after an Internet message board operated by food lovers reported that the stand was "being destroyed by a developer." The thought of the loss of another Los Angeles fast-food icon was hard to digest.</p><p>It turns out that a hot dog-munching customer heard a snippet of conversation and raced to his keyboard to write:</p><p>"Stopped by the Tail this afternoon & I overheard Dennis Blake, the owner with his father, Eddie Blake, telling a diner that he is being forced to close in 30 days," wrote the anonymous "Westside Chub" on the Chowhound message board.</p><p>"Maybe they can find another location to move the Pup just as they did the last time. Does anybody have an idea or location for these guys? Let's save the Pup."</p><p>Actually, Regent Properties Inc. had already found a spot for the Pup in Westwood Village—unless someone rocks the boat before the deal goes through, said Blake, 53, of Westchester. "It's at a Broxton Avenue parking lot, near Weyburn Avenue. It could really work out well. There are a lot of things to work out though."</p><p>Blake and his 81-year-old father, who retired from the stand in July, acquired the 59-year-old stand in 1978. They oversaw its relocation in 1986 after it was moved from its original site at nearby La Cienega Boulevard and Beverly Place to make way for a luxury hotel. The pair stored the 17-foot-wide hot dog facade, constructed from stucco-covered chicken wire, at an Alhambra wrecking yard for about a year before renting space on land owned by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.</p><p>Beverly Hills-based Regent Properties bought the site about two years ago, Blake said. It plans to develop condominiums and a retirement community for gays and lesbians, he said.</p><p>Executives at Regent did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday about their hot dog relocation plans. But customers said they would follow the Pup wherever it goes. "I've been coming here maybe 25 years, and I'll keep coming," said David Arnold, a Redondo Beach police officer who lives in Santa Monica.</p><p>Fine-art photographer Jesse Diamond, son of singer Neil Diamond and a 30-year Pup patron, said the proposed move was fine with him: He lives in Westwood. "This place won't permanently disappear. There will be a new location for it," Diamond said confidently.</p><p>Blake hopes so. But he said he wished the Internet gossiper had talked to him first.</p><p>Eavesdropping over a hot dog doesn't cut the mustard.</p></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p>By mid-December 2005, Tail o' the Pup was <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/12/the_pup_is_gone.php">gone</a>. Sadly, none of the aforementioned plans to quickly relocate the stand panned out. And nothing was ever actually built on the land that Tail o' the Pup was removed from. A 2010 article ("L.A. area has lots of unfulfilled potential," Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2010) explained that the initial Regent Properties project had stalled. As of 2021, the spot remains empty.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>2005–2021: Resurrection?</b></h3><p style="text-align: left;">The Tail o' the Pup facade sat in a warehouse in Torrance until 2014, when it was <a href="https://youtu.be/fGK4w3O7he0">put on a truck</a> headed for Las Vegas. It was to be restored there for an episode of the History Channel's <i>American Restoration</i>, but this plan fell through en route when <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2017/06/13/iconic-la-hot-dog-stand-will-have-its-day-at-new-home-in-the-valley/">"producers called to say the show was canceled"</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/the-larger-than-life-past-and-exciting-future-of-l-a-s-most-iconic-hot-dog-stand-tail-o-the-pup/">Plans also swirled around</a> for Eddie Blake's grandson Jay Miller and his wife Nicole to partner with <a href="https://www.killershrimp.com/">Killer Shrimp</a> restaurant owners Kevin Michaels and Brett Doherty, reopen Tail o' the Pup on La Cienega, and add a second location at <a href="https://www.theblocla.com/">The Bloc</a> indoor mall. <a href="https://la.curbed.com/2016/2/24/11102724/tail-o-the-pup-hot-dog-stand-reopening">Usage of the original facade fell through</a> when it wasn't able to pass health inspection, and the only thing that ended up materializing was a Tail o' the Pup food truck.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7RkGP7vsYaw/YLKtHZAi2lI/AAAAAAAAAwU/NZqTrqhQUwUN6qDsOmNNlQvL2ovwEdTDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1520/tail-o-pup-truck.0.0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1520" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7RkGP7vsYaw/YLKtHZAi2lI/AAAAAAAAAwU/NZqTrqhQUwUN6qDsOmNNlQvL2ovwEdTDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/tail-o-pup-truck.0.0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://la.eater.com/2016/9/8/12851486/tail-o-the-pup-truck-returns">Source</a></div><p><a href="https://la.eater.com/2016/9/8/12851486/tail-o-the-pup-truck-returns">That truck opened in September 2016</a> in the parking lot of the Opening Ceremony clothing store at 451 North La Cienega (just a few blocks away from Tail o' the Pup's original location). I'm not sure for how long the truck operated, but by 2018 it was apparently gone and <a href="https://beverlypress.com/2018/08/tail-o-the-pup-hotdog-stand-will-wag-again/">being described as "short-lived"</a>.</p><p>By 2017 the facade was in a Lake Elsinore storage yard (perhaps dropped off there instead of Las Vegas), and Michaels and Doherty were no longer involved. Nicole and Jay Miller donated the facade to the <a href="https://valleyrelicsmuseum.org/">Valley Relics Museum</a>. See <a href="https://youtu.be/84Gg1EYfM68">this video</a> for a look at the facade in transit to the museum.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zyMoyR4H-IA/YLM7Jg1P22I/AAAAAAAAAws/31LYy40y2mkeMq3vwK58pyPH7Z-Dl9RzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1217/totp_vrm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1043" data-original-width="1217" height="343" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zyMoyR4H-IA/YLM7Jg1P22I/AAAAAAAAAws/31LYy40y2mkeMq3vwK58pyPH7Z-Dl9RzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h343/totp_vrm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The original Tail o' the Pup facade in storage at the Valley Relics Museum. <a href="https://roadarch.blog/2017/11/26/socal-thanksgiving-pt-1-of-3/">Source.</a></div><p><a href="https://www.lamag.com/digestblog/tail-o-the-pup-reopening-1933-group/">In 2018, the Blake family sold the rights</a> to Tail o' the Pup to the <a href="https://www.1933group.com/">1933 Group</a>, which acquired the facade from the Valley Relics Museum and began working to restore it. As of now, the plan is for the group to reinstate Tail o' the Pup somewhere near its original location (hopefully with the original facade involved somehow). News about this has been slow since 2018, but I remain optimistic.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Postscript: The Milton J. Black Misconception</b></h3><p style="text-align: left;">While researching Tail o' the Pup, I kept coming across statements that it was "built in 1938," "designed by architect Milton J. Black," or both.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Journal of the LA Institute of Contemporary Art</i>, 1983.</b></p><p></p><blockquote>"1938: Tail of the Pup opens on La Cienega Boulevard." [part of a timeline]</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Well-Built Elephant</i>, J. J. C. Andrews, 1984.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote>The Tail o' the Pup, a hot dog stand, has stood on Los Angeles's La Cienega Boulevard since 1938. It was designed by architect Milton J. Black as the quintessence of Southern California pop architecture.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>"Hot Dog Stand Withstands Blitz of Commercialism—With Relish." <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, July 2, 1992.</b></p><p></p><blockquote>Tail o' the Pup was designed in 1938 by Milton J. Black, who was a master of Streamlined Moderne. He designed a number of zippy apartment buildings and factories all around the Westside. No doubt Tail o' the Pup was one of his smaller commissions, though it has garnered more fame than the rest of his work put together.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Roadside Giants</i>, Brian and Sarah Butko, 2005.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">A couple guys had been planning for [a roadside stand] back in 1938, even having an architect design the structure, but before their dream could be realized, they headed off to war. When they got back, they finally built it: a hot-dog-shaped stand with a serving window that opened into an awning or folded into the structure at night.</p><p>Tail o' the Pup opened in 1945 or 1946 (no one seems sure) at 311 North LaCienega, in Los Angeles's Westside neighborhood near North Hollywood.</p></blockquote><p></p><p><i>Roadside Giants</i> makes the best effort to connect the other sources' information about Milton J. Black and 1938 with the actual evidence of Tail o' the Pup's opening in 1946. However, I think the actual explanation is simpler: the entire idea that Tail o' the Pup was designed in 1938 by Milton J. Black is based on someone, at some point, confusing a building permit for 311 <i>North</i> La Cienega Boulevard with 311 <i>South</i> La Cienega Boulevard.</p><div><div>311 North La Cienega Boulevard was, of course, the address where Tail o' the Pup's most famous location opened in 1946.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a 1938 building permit I found by searching for 311 <i>South</i> La Cienega Boulevard:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n9f3pNPjwfQ/YLK2qoSK9UI/AAAAAAAAAwc/7Zc2Ht_owmcqLOxd-dn8GTgKFSykeFPlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/%2BNEW%2BCONSTRUCTION%2B6-27-1938%2B1938LA19510%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1819" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n9f3pNPjwfQ/YLK2qoSK9UI/AAAAAAAAAwc/7Zc2Ht_owmcqLOxd-dn8GTgKFSykeFPlgCLcBGAsYHQ/w355-h400/%2BNEW%2BCONSTRUCTION%2B6-27-1938%2B1938LA19510%2B2.jpg" width="355" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">301–311 South La Cienega Boulevard was a commercial building constructed in 1938 whose architect was Milton J. Black. Below is the only photo I've found of it:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5T0l_iTaf4/YLK4O_-M37I/AAAAAAAAAwk/sYFepTJ80jQ-gHhh8JDx_5Sl_jUyCqYtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s322/311_S.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5T0l_iTaf4/YLK4O_-M37I/AAAAAAAAAwk/sYFepTJ80jQ-gHhh8JDx_5Sl_jUyCqYtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/311_S.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Detail from image on page 9 of <i>Beverly Park: LA's Kiddieland, 1943–74</i> by Jay Jennings. Original image credited to Marc Wanamaker.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But this building doesn't have anything to do with Tail o' the Pup beyond a similar address. At some point, probably in the early 1980s judging by the sources I've found, someone was given a misfiled permit when researching Tail o' the Pup. This may have even happened a couple of times if the permit stayed in the wrong file.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The "1938" error faded away over the years as it was easy to disprove just by looking at news coverage from 1946. However, there was no one competing with Milton J. Black to be the real Tail o' the Pup architect, so that misconception persists to this day.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tail o' the Pup wasn't the kind of building that would need an architect. It was just a fiberglass hot dog attached to a tiny kitchen and was probably designed completely by Harry Engel, Ed Striker, and their contractors. Their ability to come up with an image that's still iconic 75 years later <i>without</i> the help of a professional architect is something that should be recognized.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thank you for reading and feel free to comment with any questions!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Technospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-80997132251715013272020-12-29T18:37:00.010-08:002024-01-15T17:44:37.856-08:00The Pup, the Bulldog, and the Maddox Family<p><i>NOTE: For the most up-to-date research about the Pup Cafe, check out <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~henrymuller/pup_cafe.html">this page</a> on my new website Virtual Boulevard.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I intended for this to be a pretty simple post reviewing the history of Culver City's "Pup Cafe," a dog-shaped building that used to exist in the Los Angeles area and is sometimes confused with the <a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-secret-history-of-bulldog-cafe.html">Bulldog Inn on Valley Boulevard</a>. However, I ended up learning some surprising facts that reshaped my understanding of the Pup, its history, and its relationship to the Bulldog.</p><p>It turned out that the Pup was not originally located in Culver City, but was in fact moved there from the West Adams district of Los Angeles in 1933 or 1934. Some of the better-known photographs of the Pup are actually from this earlier location.</p><p>I also confirmed the identity of the Pup's creator: Joseph Andrew Maddox. And to my great surprise, Joseph Maddox's son Everett Floyd Maddox was the creator of the Bulldog. These two dog-shaped restaurants in Los Angeles didn't just happen to look similar — they were built by two members of the same family!</p><p>As a result, this post will not only present information about the Pup Cafe, but will also attempt to provide a unified timeline of the Pup's history, the Bulldog's history, and the movement of both buildings through the Los Angeles area.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_o0A2K3z9fY/X-k8XbdK7LI/AAAAAAAAAlA/hBgfufVu3fUEuttMnl5jH69TslzH7ZI7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BPup_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="563" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_o0A2K3z9fY/X-k8XbdK7LI/AAAAAAAAAlA/hBgfufVu3fUEuttMnl5jH69TslzH7ZI7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w141-h200/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BPup_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" width="141" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BYuvnj1HSAc/X-k8qHp43lI/AAAAAAAAAlI/xPTgejHZ-gcMHrlPQU2uFPZHJmNzwZMBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1167/Developed%2Bphotos%252C%2Bcropped%2B1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="911" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BYuvnj1HSAc/X-k8qHp43lI/AAAAAAAAAlI/xPTgejHZ-gcMHrlPQU2uFPZHJmNzwZMBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w156-h200/Developed%2Bphotos%252C%2Bcropped%2B1.png" width="156" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Pup (left) and the Bulldog (right).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Beginnings</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I first learned about the Pup Cafe while researching the Bulldog Inn. The Pup's location didn't seem anywhere near as mysterious as the Bulldog's, for several reasons. For one thing, it existed up until between 1969 and 1971, meaning that plenty of people still alive today remember it from their childhoods and have described its location in detail online. The Bulldog, probably destroyed sometime around 1948 or 1949, was gone too soon. Additionally, the Pup is clearly visible in high-quality aerial photos of Culver City from 1934; no photos of similar quality exist for any of the Bulldog's locations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All this is to say that I thought the Pup's history was pretty straightforward. One thing that did nag at me was that a few photos of the Pup showed a "5406" address over its door, when its address in Culver City was known to be on the 12700 block of West Washington Boulevard. I chalked this up to a renumbering of West Washington Boulevard in Culver City at some point, and moved on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below are the two pictures I know of where the "5406" is visible. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cCumkUIHrFM/X-lJaqEDLVI/AAAAAAAAAlU/-w_bJyK8i28SuvBtupvI5eEAItKf9tcgACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BPup_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="563" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cCumkUIHrFM/X-lJaqEDLVI/AAAAAAAAAlU/-w_bJyK8i28SuvBtupvI5eEAItKf9tcgACLcBGAsYHQ/w281-h400/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BPup_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106805">Source.</a> Photograph dated February 5, 1930.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Photo 1 has appeared in print as far back as 1933, in <a href="https://longtailgifts.com/los-angeles-by-morrow-mayo-1933/"><i>Los Angeles</i> by Morrow Mayo</a>. In 2018 it was reproduced in slightly greater detail for <i>California Crazy: American Pop Architecture</i> by Jim Heimann. In addition to making the "5406" more visible, this version cropped out less of the house on the right. The power and telephone lines were edited out, however.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 1, version 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4O1AgyhR3A/X-lMJXdenNI/AAAAAAAAAlg/40xooO0FenkTbXlm3niAwZPiC80mlft0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BV2%2B-%2Bva-california-crazy-p020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1440" height="224" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4O1AgyhR3A/X-lMJXdenNI/AAAAAAAAAlg/40xooO0FenkTbXlm3niAwZPiC80mlft0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h224/Photo%2B1%2B-%2BV2%2B-%2Bva-california-crazy-p020.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.stern.de/reise/fernreisen/crazy-california--durchgeknallt-am-strassenrand_8003406-7999740.html">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBXbXGth-ew/X-lPtPQ14kI/AAAAAAAAAl4/hamzD-ZkzAYiC35ZtqXUah64mSURw7JJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s900/Photo%2B2%2B-The%2BPup%2BChili%2BDog%2BStand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="707" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBXbXGth-ew/X-lPtPQ14kI/AAAAAAAAAl4/hamzD-ZkzAYiC35ZtqXUah64mSURw7JJgCLcBGAsYHQ/w314-h400/Photo%2B2%2B-The%2BPup%2BChili%2BDog%2BStand.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hollywoodhistoricphotos.com/product_info.php/products_id/7152">Source.</a> If you look closely, you can see a "For Sale" sign to the left of the restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This picture also gives us a good look at "Ben's Garage."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5406 West Adams Boulevard</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One day, I came across the following classified ad from 1933 in Newspapers.com's archives.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xM3hHF7piF0/X-mFr5_xNZI/AAAAAAAAAmE/NQMhOGwXcroE2ZKzlNCumALhYTNU8IPowCLcBGAsYHQ/s748/20-Apr-1933%2BBull%2BDog%2BCafe.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="748" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xM3hHF7piF0/X-mFr5_xNZI/AAAAAAAAAmE/NQMhOGwXcroE2ZKzlNCumALhYTNU8IPowCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h200/20-Apr-1933%2BBull%2BDog%2BCafe.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <span style="text-align: left;">Los Angeles</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;">Illustrated Daily News</i><span style="text-align: left;">, April 20, 1933.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The name "Bull Dog Cafe" almost led me to think that the advertisement referred to the pipe-smoking bulldog from Valley Boulevard, but then I remembered the "5406" from the Pup photos. After checking old city directories to confirm that the "5406 West Adams St." of 1933 was the same geographical location as the 5406 West Adams Boulevard of today, I began investigating the address more closely. Luckily, the path forward ended up being very simple.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If Photo 1 were indeed taken at 5406 West Adams Boulevard, then the street running through the background would be South Burnside Avenue. The house in the right-hand background of Photo 1 would then have been on South Burnside, just south of its intersection with an alley behind West Adams.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's 2614-2616 South Burnside Avenue, the house at that location today, together with the house from Photo 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j1Kpo-QcjvM/X-mc7PHZlCI/AAAAAAAAAmg/eODuKPU_KG8yZybOLGtWHWfTb_vKRdycwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1263/gsv_mar_2019.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1263" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j1Kpo-QcjvM/X-mc7PHZlCI/AAAAAAAAAmg/eODuKPU_KG8yZybOLGtWHWfTb_vKRdycwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/gsv_mar_2019.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">2614-2616 South Burnside Avenue,</span> Google Street View, 2019.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4i5IqspHiYY/X-mdGEwiW-I/AAAAAAAAAmk/ZV8lpWx7XuAUuzTwW8lfqs33MkRspsa8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s381/photo1cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="381" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4i5IqspHiYY/X-mdGEwiW-I/AAAAAAAAAmk/ZV8lpWx7XuAUuzTwW8lfqs33MkRspsa8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/photo1cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 1 (detail)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some changes have been made to the house, but the roofline and shingled overhang are unmistakably similar. According to <a href="http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/">Los Angeles building records</a>, this house was built in 1924, early enough to have appeared in the photo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I moved on to the house visible in the background of Photo 2. This house is also visible in another photo of the Pup:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zNPS9P11CIc/X-miK5_UsRI/AAAAAAAAAm0/MIKSrksHFg01bnCYQLlap_qmZ8_fZyO4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2527/Photo%2B6%2B-%2BScreen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B5.05.05%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="2527" height="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zNPS9P11CIc/X-miK5_UsRI/AAAAAAAAAm0/MIKSrksHFg01bnCYQLlap_qmZ8_fZyO4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h150/Photo%2B6%2B-%2BScreen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B5.05.05%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>California Crazy & Beyond</i>, Jim Heimann, 2001. Credited to The </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Williams Partnership. The house in question is behind the Pup, to the right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the house from those photos side-by-side with 2618-2620 South Burnside Avenue, the house at that location today (one door down from 2614-2616).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Nl_7ZICzm4/X-mj3liKNBI/AAAAAAAAAnA/f1lECyr-nqgpreQrLMCfcJtTgE1JDf6DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1488/gsv_mar_2019_2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="1488" height="233" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Nl_7ZICzm4/X-mj3liKNBI/AAAAAAAAAnA/f1lECyr-nqgpreQrLMCfcJtTgE1JDf6DQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h233/gsv_mar_2019_2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">2618-2620 South Burnside Avenue,</span> Google Street View, 2019.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WpcJtn9E0R0/X-mkXEDCBbI/AAAAAAAAAnI/65ScU2Th0WA8yBw7GB_GjnZQ6_VbOTPzACLcBGAsYHQ/s105/house2_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="93" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WpcJtn9E0R0/X-mkXEDCBbI/AAAAAAAAAnI/65ScU2Th0WA8yBw7GB_GjnZQ6_VbOTPzACLcBGAsYHQ/w354-h400/house2_1.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 2 (detail)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fMqRDMFpPRo/X-mkeVJNhCI/AAAAAAAAAnM/hC5jUltgzpkeiVjRzknyUlF30Arpm33SQCLcBGAsYHQ/s316/house2_2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="316" height="332" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fMqRDMFpPRo/X-mkeVJNhCI/AAAAAAAAAnM/hC5jUltgzpkeiVjRzknyUlF30Arpm33SQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h332/house2_2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 3 (detail)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The house was an obvious match, and city records showed that it was built in 1923. The combination of the classified ad and matching houses led me to the conclusion that the Pup Cafe was located at 5406 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles until at least 1933. Since the earliest aerial photo showing it in Culver City was from 1934, this fit with the established timeline.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The classified ad also established that the Pup Cafe was known as the "Bull Dog Cafe" at one point. However, to avoid confusion with the Bulldog Inn, I'll continue to call it the Pup Cafe in most cases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what 5406 West Adams Boulevard looks like today. It's the red building near the center. I tried to capture this image from a similar angle to Photo 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyrAKWvgCb0/X-qGjLSnU4I/AAAAAAAAAo4/lgBW3pfJj70lc-E19js-dfAv5D_7dvbFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2243/gsv.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="2243" height="199" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyrAKWvgCb0/X-qGjLSnU4I/AAAAAAAAAo4/lgBW3pfJj70lc-E19js-dfAv5D_7dvbFgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h199/gsv.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Google Street View, February 2020.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The First Movement</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I looked up the address "5406 West Adams Boulevard" in the Los Angeles <a href="http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/">building permit archive</a> and found the following document, issued July 16, 1929.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H272j7qDk8o/X-o100UyLqI/AAAAAAAAAno/HhChHPn5b_MDvjWmrMF0RceTUOcnpO_xACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/permit_1929.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1313" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H272j7qDk8o/X-o100UyLqI/AAAAAAAAAno/HhChHPn5b_MDvjWmrMF0RceTUOcnpO_xACLcBGAsYHQ/w410-h640/permit_1929.png" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a permit to move a building from some unspecified location in Los Angeles County (presumably not within LA city limits) to 5406 West Adams Boulevard. Another section specifies that the building will be moved "by Ridgeley Dr." The permit states that the building is already being used as a restaurant and will continue to be used for that purpose after the move. It also mentions that the lot at 5406 West Adams will be shared with a garage (presumably "Ben's Garage"). The building owner is given as J. A. Maddox of 5354 Westhaven St.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll have more to say about J.A. Maddox shortly, but I want to focus on the fact that this permit seems to document when the Pup first came to 5406 West Adams. It apparently started out in some other location that wasn't even within the city limits, and for at least part of its journey traveled along Ridgeley Drive. Ridgeley Drive intersects with West Adams Boulevard right near the 5406 address, so this makes sense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, the permit doesn't mention exactly where the Pup might have existed before being moved, and there's very little information to go on. J.A. Maddox may have even purchased a nondescript food stand, which he modified into the shape of a dog after moving it. In that case, there wouldn't even be any photographs of the Pup at a previous location.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Joseph A. Maddox</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Searching old city directories for "5406 West Adams Boulevard" quickly turned up the name "Joseph A. Maddox." Here's his listing from the 1931 Los Angeles city directory (the ditto marks mean "Maddox"):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8gQ22-xuNM/X-o0Yl0-aDI/AAAAAAAAAnc/hPPe6xevg28yhaE0Cj1tPAbWPN9233GjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2050/j_maddox_directory.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="2050" height="96" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8gQ22-xuNM/X-o0Yl0-aDI/AAAAAAAAAnc/hPPe6xevg28yhaE0Cj1tPAbWPN9233GjgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h96/j_maddox_directory.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c/cl000000/20170519/00000003&pg_seq=1298&search_doc=maddox">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joseph Maddox died in 1949 at the age of 84, still living at 5354 Westhaven Street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTCicJE0q60/X-pCVb9R37I/AAAAAAAAAn0/OwYnCM1Kx9oes_GvFLc53W_lkFbghZnJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1598/obit.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="1598" height="345" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTCicJE0q60/X-pCVb9R37I/AAAAAAAAAn0/OwYnCM1Kx9oes_GvFLc53W_lkFbghZnJwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h345/obit.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, January 21, 1949.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But there was something more interesting about the obituary: it said that Joseph Maddox had a son named Everett Maddox. I recognized that name immediately as the man associated with the Bulldog Inn's address in the 1931 Rosemead city directory. Could it just be a coincidence?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At this point, my access to Ancestry.com through the Los Angeles Public Library came in extremely handy. Thanks to the massive set of searchable records it provided, I was able to verify pretty quickly that the Joseph A. Maddox who'd owned a restaurant at 5406 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles was indeed the father of the Everett Maddox who'd owned a restaurant at 1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead. I also confirmed that Joseph's middle name was Andrew and Everett's middle name was Floyd. I won't bore you with the exact details, but things like census records, draft cards, and names of siblings and spouses left very little room for ambiguity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I now had a personal theory that the Pup Cafe and the Bulldog Inn were built around the same time by two members of the same family. I wasn't sure if I'd ever find definitive proof of this fact, but then the answer basically dropped into my lap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Joseph and Everett</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ancestry.com users can create entries about their ancestors, tying them to certain records and including extra material. It turns out that someone had already gone in and created entries for Joseph Andrew Maddox, Everett Floyd Maddox, and the rest of their family. They'd even included some photographs:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U3pT0TgE8H4/X-pNf51TkEI/AAAAAAAAAoA/THkhYvsBvAoFyxZhUmP4XLabULke65XSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s910/j_maddox_1925.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U3pT0TgE8H4/X-pNf51TkEI/AAAAAAAAAoA/THkhYvsBvAoFyxZhUmP4XLabULke65XSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/j_maddox_1925.jpg" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89Qm7NTu8lo/X-pNk1INoDI/AAAAAAAAAoE/QzqYI-9FVhYa6TxSq94dSSKb2M1zgI68wCLcBGAsYHQ/s694/e_maddox_1925.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="303" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89Qm7NTu8lo/X-pNk1INoDI/AAAAAAAAAoE/QzqYI-9FVhYa6TxSq94dSSKb2M1zgI68wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/e_maddox_1925.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Joseph Andrew Maddox (left) and Everett Floyd Maddox (right).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both photographs dated November 1925. Source (<a href="https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/173544/person/-1844927895/media/a2bb0641-6de5-4248-bb86-968946762db0">1</a>, <a href="https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/173544/person/-1844927895/media/1f949722-bf4f-41bb-bdc4-92aa82175e73">2</a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But even more important was <a href="https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/173544/person/-1844927895/media/67ffff2a-a41e-41dd-8444-15ed1839971c">a note</a> attached to Joseph Maddox's entry, attributed to his granddaughter Lorna Elizabeth Maddox Williams and labeled "Joseph Andrew Maddox in LEMW's Words":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He was a carpenter and a building contractor. At one time he owned a second-hand store in Kansas and was a part-time sheriff's deputy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With his three sons, he built his house at 5354 Westhaven St. in Los Angeles and lived there from 1924 until 1949 when he died there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>At one time he owned a small lunch stand built in the shape of a large bulldog, built by Joseph and his sons in the 1930s on W. Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles. Later on, his son Everett built one like it in San Gabriel.</b> After the parents' death, Irene and Edwin lived in the same house until their deaths, when the property was sold.</div></blockquote><p>So my theory was no longer just a guess — it was what had actually happened. The Pup Cafe in Los Angeles belonged to Joseph Maddox, and the Bulldog Inn in Rosemead belonged to his son Everett Maddox. (The Bulldog was just yards over the border between San Gabriel and Rosemead, so placing it in San Gabriel was entirely reasonable). Also note that 5354 Westhaven Street is just a few blocks away from 5406 West Adams Boulevard.</p><p>Of course, a few questions remained. Lorna Williams described the Pup Cafe as being built on West Washington Boulevard, but it seems pretty clear that it started out on West Adams Boulevard and was moved to West Washington Boulevard a few years later. It <i>was</i> probably moved to West Adams from some earlier location, but that location was outside the Los Angeles city limits, not on West Washington Boulevard. I think the best explanation is just that Mrs. Williams simplified the story when retelling it years later. In fact, <a href="https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/173544/person/-2115157420/media/7bdf6671-7c8a-4265-bd63-d8ab2486633a">she spent some time living in Culver City in the 1940s</a> and so may have seen the Pup there after it was moved.</p><p>I'd like to think that Mrs. Williams's memory that Joseph Maddox and his sons built the Pup together is accurate. That's why I think the building moved to 5406 West Adams Boulevard in 1929 may have just been a generic cafe that was modified into the shape of a dog.</p><p>According to censuses and city directories, Joseph and Everett Maddox worked as contractors for most of their lives. Neither man seemed to own his restaurant for more than five years. Perhaps they built them as a kind of advertisement for their construction abilities.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Pup in Culver City</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup Cafe was moved from Los Angeles to Culver City sometime between April 1933, when the classified ad was placed, and June 1934, when the Pup was photographed from the air. Different editions of <i>California Crazy</i> by Jim Heimann give either of the two addresses 12728 and 12732 West Washington Boulevard as its new location. However, I learned from old newspapers that the Pup Cafe's new address was actually <b>12718 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City</b>. (Both incorrect addresses, as well as the correct one, point to approximately the same spot: the south side of West Washington Boulevard, between Rosabell Street and Wade Street.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the June 1934 aerial photo that I keep alluding to:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xdD45Av2Rgk/X-ph6zLG7yI/AAAAAAAAAoU/MomC8TY96WI2eB1rCDplqa057y9Lo9cjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1282/aerial_1934.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1282" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xdD45Av2Rgk/X-ph6zLG7yI/AAAAAAAAAoU/MomC8TY96WI2eB1rCDplqa057y9Lo9cjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h194/aerial_1934.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_images/c-3060/c-3060_13.tif">Source</a> [direct link to TIFF file]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup is clearly visible near the center — you can even make out the shadow cast by its head. West Washington Boulevard is the wide street curving across the top of the photo. Rosabell Street is the bent street on the left, and Wade Street is on the right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the earliest mention in print that I've seen of the Pup Cafe in Culver City, from November 1934:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MJK0HCGvQec/YMU0WLwl-LI/AAAAAAAAAzc/GPsETZNP9bIwag4nhaemYkWExq_2A-dDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1447/macs_pup_cafe.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Advertisement reading "Open Day & Night — Mac's Pup Cafe — 12718 W. Washington Blvd."" border="0" data-original-height="1447" data-original-width="1408" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MJK0HCGvQec/YMU0WLwl-LI/AAAAAAAAAzc/GPsETZNP9bIwag4nhaemYkWExq_2A-dDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w389-h400/macs_pup_cafe.png" title="Advertisement reading "Open Day & Night — Mac's Pup Cafe — 12718 W. Washington Blvd."" width="389" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, November 8, 1934.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Along with providing the 12718 West Washington Boulevard address, this advertisement also confirms that the name "Pup Cafe" wasn't just invented by history—it was really a contemporary name for this restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are a few photos of the Pup Cafe in Culver City. More signage accumulated on and around the building.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r2ZbyfMLUgQ/X-ptR7stCaI/AAAAAAAAAog/Lc8mSV8bgzMVSGRKGQTo2NFG1J3a7itzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Photo%2B7%2B-%2B25006946_169180880349622_3083678985431810048_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r2ZbyfMLUgQ/X-ptR7stCaI/AAAAAAAAAog/Lc8mSV8bgzMVSGRKGQTo2NFG1J3a7itzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w304-h400/Photo%2B7%2B-%2B25006946_169180880349622_3083678985431810048_n.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BcwFV6wFFxt/">Source.</a> Looks to have been found at a flea market.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Described as being from 1939 — maybe the year was written on the back?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This next photo was taken by the famed Ansel Adams "around 1939," <a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116850">according to the Los Angeles Public Library</a>. There's a good description of its provenance at the source link.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cdDVj9BWga4/X-puUkqZ0zI/AAAAAAAAAos/XT7yDCE2nA4sJzS2XH7HWPph0WMwsoMdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B10%2B-%2BPup_cafe_in_Venice_view_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="780" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cdDVj9BWga4/X-puUkqZ0zI/AAAAAAAAAos/XT7yDCE2nA4sJzS2XH7HWPph0WMwsoMdQCLcBGAsYHQ/w390-h400/Photo%2B10%2B-%2BPup_cafe_in_Venice_view_2.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116850">Source.</a> Photograph by Ansel Adams, c. 1939. Look for the cat in front of the Coca-Cola cooler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It seems clear that these photographs were taken in Culver City for a few reasons. First, the date associated with Photo 5 is pretty solid, placing that photo after the Pup's arrival in Culver City. Then, since Photo 4 clearly shows the Pup in the same location from a different angle (little details like the Coca-Cola cooler and front patio match), it must have been taken in Culver City as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1948, a rectangular extension was added to the Pup's left-hand side (sources: "Building Permits Receive Approval," <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, July 15, 1948; <a href="https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/">aerial photography</a>). At some point, the Pup ceased to function as a restaurant and became Ugly Dog Records. Below is a photograph from 1969.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 6</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8zso18Oc7A/YMQzwrnJKBI/AAAAAAAAAzM/SUHeylOYbroUOkqfvWvYwDmsvD_9SIvqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1949/uglydog_1969.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1949" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8zso18Oc7A/YMQzwrnJKBI/AAAAAAAAAzM/SUHeylOYbroUOkqfvWvYwDmsvD_9SIvqwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h279/uglydog_1969.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: "There Was an Old Woman Who Worked in a Shoe," Lawrence Dietz,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>West Magazine of the Los Angeles Times</i>, November 30, 1969. Photograph by Mike Salisbury.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because it was in the <i>West Magazine</i> Sunday supplement to the <i>LA Times</i>, this photograph would have originally been in color and it's a shame the only version archived online is in black-and-white. Nevertheless, it's the only photographic evidence of Ugly Dog Records that I've been able to find. It's nice to see that the Pup has been cleaned up somewhat and maybe given a new coat of paint (although the image quality likely hides many flaws).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But the Pup wouldn't be around for much longer. By <a href="http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_images/tg-2755/tg-2755_14-7.tif">1971</a>, it had been replaced by a parking lot and entered the realm of memory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what the Pup's Culver City location looked like in 2019. The spot once occupied by the Pup is somewhere within the footprint of the white apartment building, which has the address 12712 West Washington Boulevard. I tried to capture a similar angle to that of Photo 5.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5Vk2BmGrnk/X-rCdGugzaI/AAAAAAAAApQ/oDDUZM-swEcLe_5tBIUFlTbIMi-_SCVuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1198/gsv_apr_2019.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1198" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5Vk2BmGrnk/X-rCdGugzaI/AAAAAAAAApQ/oDDUZM-swEcLe_5tBIUFlTbIMi-_SCVuQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/gsv_apr_2019.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Google Street View, March 2019.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Maddox Bulldog Timeline</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below is my attempt to construct a timeline of Joseph and Everett Maddox's Pup and Bulldog restaurants. Sources are in brackets. I've included the remaining photos of the Pup that I know of as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Note that the Pup Cafe seemed to have a new owner pretty much every time it appeared in the news or in a city directory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See <a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-secret-history-of-bulldog-cafe.html">my post on the Bulldog</a> for more information about that restaurant's own history.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1864</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joseph Andrew Maddox born in Illinois. [1900 US census]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1899</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everett Floyd Maddox born in Pennsylvania. [1900 US census]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1924</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joseph Maddox builds a house at 5354 Westhaven Street, Los Angeles, and moves in. ["Joseph Andrew Maddox in LEMW's Words"]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1929</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In July, Joseph Maddox files a permit to move a restaurant from somewhere in LA County to 5406 West Adams Blvd. This is the restaurant he would refer to as the "Bull Dog Cafe," which we know as the "Pup Cafe." [Los Angeles building permit records]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1930</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joseph Maddox is listed as a cafe proprietor by the 1930 US census.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At some point early in the Pup's existence, the following photos are taken at 5406 West Adams Boulevard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DDiQP8CV_qw/X-rVuAElGgI/AAAAAAAAApk/Tt3ncd6WFwsQmYCUT8inoQEgliWvS11ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B3%2B-%2BPup_Cafe_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="635" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DDiQP8CV_qw/X-rVuAElGgI/AAAAAAAAApk/Tt3ncd6WFwsQmYCUT8inoQEgliWvS11ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/w318-h400/Photo%2B3%2B-%2BPup_Cafe_a_hot_dog_stand.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106806">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 8</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o9UncGXBFnk/X-rWSXRuqfI/AAAAAAAAAp8/UOfiF1_sbIgXWCzF13EnnfX34gtEGPbrACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B5%2B-%2BPup_Cafe_in_Venice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="800" height="323" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o9UncGXBFnk/X-rWSXRuqfI/AAAAAAAAAp8/UOfiF1_sbIgXWCzF13EnnfX34gtEGPbrACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h323/Photo%2B5%2B-%2BPup_Cafe_in_Venice.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100918">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXCQuwIyfkM/X-rV6Ao4ScI/AAAAAAAAApo/tWYFcS-PD3I3O1V03lW8nsDg-Nra7gHXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B4%2B-%2BDogshaped_hot_dog_stand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="800" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXCQuwIyfkM/X-rV6Ao4ScI/AAAAAAAAApo/tWYFcS-PD3I3O1V03lW8nsDg-Nra7gHXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h310/Photo%2B4%2B-%2BDogshaped_hot_dog_stand.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100916">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1931</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In January, Joseph Maddox is robbed of $15 by bandits at the Pup Cafe. ["Hold-Up Totals Rise Anew," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, January 12, 1931]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In February, Joseph Maddox fights back against two bandits at the Pup Cafe and thwarts their robbery attempt. ["Store Owner and Bandits Battle," <i>Los Angeles Evening Post-Record</i>, February 21, 1931]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Everett Maddox of 934 South Palm Avenue, San Gabriel is listed for the first time as the proprietor of a restaurant at 1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead. This is the pipe-smoking Bulldog Inn. [1931 Alhambra / San Gabriel Valley city directory]</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1932</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Alhambra / San Gabriel Valley city directory no longer lists Everett Maddox as owning a restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup appears in video footage labeled "Driving Through Hollywood (1932)." I'm not entirely certain that the date is correct, but I think that 2614-2616 South Burnside Avenue does appear in the background, which would place the footage before the move to Culver City.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p3BXhNIIRMA?start=141" width="320" youtube-src-id="p3BXhNIIRMA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pup Cafe appears at 2:21. <a href="https://youtu.be/p3BXhNIIRMA?t=141">Source.</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1933</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup Cafe appears in <i>Los Angeles</i> by Morrow Mayo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In April, the Pup Cafe is put up for sale. [<i>Illustrated Daily News</i>, April 20, 1933]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup Cafe is moved to West Washington Boulevard in Culver City at some point before June 1934. [UCSB aerial photo archive]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1934</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In April, the Pup Cafe appears in <i>Modern Mechanix</i> (below). The image used is still of the West Adams location.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 10</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KwmLtiZdstk/X-vGAYoaOUI/AAAAAAAAAqY/PCdm6Y1GYt0CbBBjaOV0OQnzpfehyvJDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Photo%2B8%2B-%2Bweird_shops.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1355" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KwmLtiZdstk/X-vGAYoaOUI/AAAAAAAAAqY/PCdm6Y1GYt0CbBBjaOV0OQnzpfehyvJDwCLcBGAsYHQ/w265-h400/Photo%2B8%2B-%2Bweird_shops.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/bizarre-eat-shops-built-to-lure-trade/">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In November, an advertisement appears for "Mac's Pup Cafe" in Culver City. [<i style="text-align: center;">Venice Evening Vanguard</i><span style="text-align: center;">, November 8, 1934]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also in November, the Bulldog Inn appears in <i>National Geographic</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everett Maddox now lives at 5351 Homeside Avenue, Los Angeles, not far from his father. [Los Angeles voter registration archives]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Los Angeles city directory no longer lists Joseph Maddox as owning a restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1937</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Sadler family are listed as proprietors of the Bulldog Inn in Rosemead. [1937 Alhambra / San Gabriel Valley city directory]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dorothy Bishonden is listed as the proprietor of the Pup Cafe in Culver City. [1937 Culver City / Los Angeles city directory]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>1938</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Virginia Jacobson is listed as the proprietor of the Pup Cafe in Culver City. [1938 Culver City / Los Angeles city directory]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>1939-1940</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Pup Cafe is photographed by Ansel Adams. [Los Angeles Public Library]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Below is a second photo of the Pup taken by Adams at the same time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 11</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9KA-mLXVwY/X-vGesmqMbI/AAAAAAAAAqg/A9K56PK1Axw_QXNC6MnBSgsUWifOYe4GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Photo%2B9%2B-%2BPup_cafe_in_Venice_view_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="800" height="368" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9KA-mLXVwY/X-vGesmqMbI/AAAAAAAAAqg/A9K56PK1Axw_QXNC6MnBSgsUWifOYe4GQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h368/Photo%2B9%2B-%2BPup_cafe_in_Venice_view_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116905">Source.</a> Photograph by Ansel Adams.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1940</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In June, the Bulldog is advertised for sale or rent in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G4CDGXCoBuI/YMF3XJ4aLQI/AAAAAAAAAy4/hDupAOVYCNI__Q3NwGmC5syhaFZ7v2hJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1541/la_times_jun_16_1940.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="1541" height="47" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G4CDGXCoBuI/YMF3XJ4aLQI/AAAAAAAAAy4/hDupAOVYCNI__Q3NwGmC5syhaFZ7v2hJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h47/la_times_jun_16_1940.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, June 16, 1940.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Note that 1153 East Valley Boulevard is given as the residence of the cafe's owners. This aligns with how the Sadler family were listed as both residents of 1153 East Valley Boulevard, and proprietors of a restaurant at the same address (see <a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-secret-history-of-bulldog-cafe.html">my post</a> about the Bulldog). They must have lived right next door to the Bulldog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1940-1944</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Bulldog is moved from Rosemead to Monterey Park. [<a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-secret-history-of-bulldog-cafe.html">my own research</a>]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1945</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In August, Esther Chase, the proprietor of the Pup Cafe in Culver City, throws hot coffee at three would-be robbers and stops them from robbing her restaurant. ["Coffee Treatment Scares Bandit," <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, August 23, 1945]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1948</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In July, Esther Collings receives approval to build an addition to the Pup Cafe (this time referred to as "Dog Restaurant" in contemporary coverage). ["Building Permits Receive Approval," <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, July 15, 1948]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1948-1949</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Bulldog is either moved out of Monterey Park or demolished. [Historic Aerials]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1949</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In January, Joseph Maddox dies at his home in Los Angeles. [<i style="text-align: center;">Los Angeles Times</i><span style="text-align: center;">, January 21, 1949</span>]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1957</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In August, eight teenagers are arrested for "gang activities" and violation of curfew at the Pup Cafe (this time referred to as "Dog Cafe" in contemporary coverage). ["Teenagers Nabbed in Local Drive-In Raid," <i>Venice Evening Vanguard</i>, August 10, 1957]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1962</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In November, Everett Maddox dies in a construction accident in Los Angeles. ["Police Probe Building Fall; 1 Man Killed," <i>Valley Times Today</i>, November 17, 1962]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1969</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup Cafe, now Ugly Dog Records, appears in <i>West Magazine of the Los Angeles Times</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1969-1971</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Pup Cafe is demolished. [UCSB aerial photo archive]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Open Questions</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some questions remain about the Pup Cafe:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>What building did Joseph Maddox move to 5406 West Adams Boulevard in 1929, and where did he move it from?</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><ul><li>Was it already in the shape of a dog, or did he modify it?</li></ul></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><ul><li>Did he move an unrelated building, then demolish it and build the Pup soon after?</li></ul></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When did the Pup become Ugly Dog Records?</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Last Bits</b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's one photo of the Pup Cafe that I couldn't even attempt to place into the rest of the chronology. It appears as part of the endpaper design of <i>California Crazy & Beyond</i> by Jim Heimann and is credited to the author's personal collection. For completeness's sake, I'll include it here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 12</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F1ei_RxyZuM/YP25jbrHWeI/AAAAAAAAA00/Ib_EFkye2H4ftZNMRwRaHnBhZCxcEPyAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1641/Photo12.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1307" data-original-width="1641" height="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F1ei_RxyZuM/YP25jbrHWeI/AAAAAAAAA00/Ib_EFkye2H4ftZNMRwRaHnBhZCxcEPyAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h319/Photo12.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>California Crazy & Beyond</i>, Jim Heimann, 2001.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, I'll close with a memory of the Pup Cafe from Culver City that someone posted on Facebook, which I thought was really nice: <i>On Sundays my dad would walk with us here and lift us up to pet the dog's nose. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions or corrections, feel free to reach out!</div></div></div>Technospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-29159537930692678072020-12-18T21:41:00.015-08:002024-01-15T17:43:32.975-08:00The Secret History of the Bulldog Cafe<p><i>NOTE: For the most up-to-date research about the Bulldog Cafe, check out <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~henrymuller/bulldog_inn.html">this page</a> on my new website Virtual Boulevard.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>There was a little restaurant shaped like a pipe-smoking bulldog somewhere in the Los Angeles area during the 1930s.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHnl8rcd6dM/X9FBGt8nYoI/AAAAAAAAAjU/f-GzTIuUfcA1vkURZWQ1UlyF-2AydkIiACLcBGAsYHQ/s1167/photo1_hero.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photograph of a restaurant shaped like a bulldog. "TAMALE" is written on the bulldog's left leg. "ICE CREAM" is written on the bulldog's right leg." border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="911" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHnl8rcd6dM/X9FBGt8nYoI/AAAAAAAAAjU/f-GzTIuUfcA1vkURZWQ1UlyF-2AydkIiACLcBGAsYHQ/w156-h200/photo1_hero.png" width="156" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A71">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In this post, I'll go over the existing photos of the restaurant, where it was located and why the conventional wisdom about its location is wrong, and how the restaurant found a second life years after the fact.</div><p>I tried to include a lot of detail in this post for others who might be as interested in this as I am. For those who just want the short version: I believe that this restaurant was located at <b>1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, CA</b> from some point before 1931 to some point after 1940. Between 1940 and 1944 it was moved three miles southwest to <b>638 East Garvey Avenue, Monterey Park, CA</b>, where it was used as a real estate office until its likely destruction in 1948 or 1949.</p><p>The only name used to refer to this restaurant in print was "<b>Bulldog Inn</b>," which appeared once in a 1937 city directory. The names "Dog Cafe," "Bulldog Cafe," and "Bull Dog Cafe" do not originate from primary sources related to this specific restaurant.</p><p>The conventional wisdom that it was located at 1153 West Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles originates from the <i>California Crazy</i> books by Jim Heimann. I was able to contact him via email to discuss the Bulldog in greater detail and learned that the address he provided was based on an old Los Angeles telephone book that listed a restaurant with "Dog" or "Bulldog" in its name at 1153 West Washington. While this was a pretty good guess, it turns out that aerial photos, a caption on a photo of the Bulldog, and <a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-pup-bulldog-and-maddox-family.html">a personal account</a> from the niece of the Bulldog's original owner point to the San Gabriel Valley locations described above. Adding to the confusion is the fact that <a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116850">a different dog-shaped restaurant</a>, usually called the "Pup Cafe," really did exist on West Washington Boulevard in Culver City.</p><p>Throughout this post, I refer to the restaurant as simply the "Bulldog," mainly to avoid sounding too presumptuous by calling it the "Bulldog Inn" (although I do think that is the correct name). I put "Bulldog Cafe" in the title in an attempt to make this post easier to find online.</p><p>There is still a lot I don't know about this place and I hope to update this post with any new information I might learn.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Existing Photos and Video of the Bulldog</b></p><p>The first thing I did when I became interested in the Bulldog's history was find all the photos of it that I could. So far, I've found nine photos and one video of the Bulldog. I'm sure there are more out there, but they've either never been digitized or are buried somewhere online with no identifying information. I have a general idea of the origins of most of the photos, but some are still a mystery.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Photo 1</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--_0L-wcqCiw/X718L1yBRKI/AAAAAAAAAYc/wqG6-yDluWoCu5zrKOAdOoAmkKEfo8KAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1167/Photo%2B1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photograph of a restaurant shaped like a bulldog. "TAMALE" is written on the bulldog's left leg. "ICE CREAM" is written on the bulldog's right leg." border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="911" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--_0L-wcqCiw/X718L1yBRKI/AAAAAAAAAYc/wqG6-yDluWoCu5zrKOAdOoAmkKEfo8KAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w312-h400/Photo%2B1.png" width="312" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A71">Source.</a> Photograph likely by Ralph D. Cornell.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 2</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mpeMJcZ4IIM/X72BfItsIPI/AAAAAAAAAYo/fEoE9Za4rQQShXuGcUBZ72E3dEVVamN3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1235/Photo%2B2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photograph of a restaurant shaped like a bulldog. "TAMALE" is written on the bulldog's left leg. "ICE CREAM" is written on the bulldog's right leg." border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1235" height="324" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mpeMJcZ4IIM/X72BfItsIPI/AAAAAAAAAYo/fEoE9Za4rQQShXuGcUBZ72E3dEVVamN3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h324/Photo%2B2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A71">Source.</a> Photograph likely by <span style="text-align: left;">Ralph D. Cornell.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These first two photos come from the UCLA Library's Ralph D. Cornell Papers collection. Ralph D. Cornell was a landscape architect who was involved in the planning of the UCLA campus. I've cropped both of these photos from the three-photo collage available at the link (the third photo is of a different restaurant). The caption is a little muddled:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Note on back of photograph: [The Pup] Valley Blvd. Alhambra. [Bull Dog] Beverly Blvd. & Virgil St. L.A. [5-15-32]., Text from nitrate sleeve: Roadside Eating Places. The Pup - Beverly & Virgil [Bulldog] - Valley Blvd., Alhambra 5-15-32.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Already we're faced with a question. Cornell seems to have mixed up the two restaurants between labeling the back of the photo and labeling the nitrate sleeve. Which caption is correct? Well, I was able to verify pretty easily that "The Pup" restaurant was indeed near the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and North Virgil Avenue in the city of Los Angeles (I found a <a href="http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83107">low-altitude aerial photo</a> of it that I could match to old aerial photos of the entire neighborhood). This leaves Valley Boulevard, Alhambra as Cornell's intended location for the Bulldog. In all the searching I've done so far, this is the only photo of the restaurant with a street name associated with it that wasn't added years after the fact.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's not clear from the caption if Cornell photographed both restaurants on May 15, 1932, or just one of them. Whatever the case is, I think it's a good bet that all the photos were taken very close to 1932.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A few details that will be relevant later on: there's a power transmission tower sitting in a field visible in the background of Photo 1, and an "1153" on the restaurant door in both photos. Also, some of the Bulldog signs are on the other side of the fence, suggesting that whoever owned the restaurant also owned the property next door.</div><span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Ralph D. Cornell Papers Collection also includes the <a href="https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A351">negative</a> of this photo collage. Well, it's labeled as a negative, but the colors aren't reversed, so who knows. I'm not familiar enough with 1930s photography techniques to be sure.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 3</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4PNhY2YpcwI/X8GobyLTQAI/AAAAAAAAAdM/z7fUMqbNYrgUD6EeZgffbx0ycwhvZNlQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1431/Photo%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photograph of a restaurant shaped like a bulldog. "TAMALE" is written on the bulldog's left leg. "ICE CREAM" is written on the bulldog's right leg. A man walks down the street in the foreground." border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="1431" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4PNhY2YpcwI/X8GobyLTQAI/AAAAAAAAAdM/z7fUMqbNYrgUD6EeZgffbx0ycwhvZNlQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h279/Photo%2B3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bulldog-Cafe-Los-Angeles-California-Coca-Cola-dog-smoking-pipe-postcard/254790812087">Source</a> (eBay item number <span style="text-align: left;">254790812087)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This photo was printed on a postcard copyrighted in 1996. The back of the postcard reads "GIANT BULLDOG SMOKING HIS PIPE, one of the many unique restaurants in Los Angeles, February 3, 1933." I don't think such a specific date would have been made up, so it may have been attached to the original photo. The photo is credited to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettmann_Archive">UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos</a>, but I don't know how they originally acquired the photo or if it was ever published during the 60-odd years before being used on the postcard.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RamLlDHK5BE/X8GkP_BVJwI/AAAAAAAAAc8/iIuovsQ5sTMkSsrktH_UpylS7UuEdUr6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/postcard2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The back of a postcard. A small caption in the corner describes the postcard image." border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RamLlDHK5BE/X8GkP_BVJwI/AAAAAAAAAc8/iIuovsQ5sTMkSsrktH_UpylS7UuEdUr6gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h265/postcard2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bulldog-Cafe-Los-Angeles-California-Coca-Cola-dog-smoking-pipe-postcard/254790812087">Source</a> (eBay item number <span style="text-align: left;">254790812087)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The original version of the photo is still available at <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bulldog-shaped-restaurant-faces-a-street-not-far-from-news-photo/515585088">Getty Images</a>, which absorbed the Bettmann Archive at some point.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A few notable details from this photo: the Bulldog was on a paved road busy enough to have a dividing line, which makes perfect sense given its status as an eye-catching roadside restaurant. A mountain range is visible in the background. There are also a couple things only visible in the Getty Images original:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y00iLsFI60/X8BYbT3_-uI/AAAAAAAAAb8/idIlqU6yYCw0F3Lio4z56tFQEe2XFjzbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1296/Photo%2B3%2Bdetail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A metal sign." border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="594" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y00iLsFI60/X8BYbT3_-uI/AAAAAAAAAb8/idIlqU6yYCw0F3Lio4z56tFQEe2XFjzbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w184-h400/Photo%2B3%2Bdetail.png" width="184" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bulldog-shaped-restaurant-faces-a-street-not-far-from-news-photo/515585088">Source</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A sign in the bottom right corner reads "BULLDOG HAMBURGERS + HOT DOGS 5¢." There's also another sign on the other side of the fence that seems to be advertising <i>something</i>, although the only word I can make out is "ice."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 4</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fjaot99AguI/X72MO25aERI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/L42KxMfELO0aqoTExsclc6VbpFsPUdOQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1458/Photo%2B4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photograph of a restaurant shaped like a bulldog. "TAMALE" is written on the bulldog's left leg. "ICE CREAM" is written on the bulldog's right leg. Under the photograph is the following text: "Alexander Wiederseder. An Architect's Roadside Nightmare. Lunch stands and soft-drink parlors shaped like animals, fowls, jails, old hats, shoes, and similar odd objects astonish the newcomer as he rides about the suburbs of Los Angeles (see text, page 544)."" border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="921" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fjaot99AguI/X72MO25aERI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/L42KxMfELO0aqoTExsclc6VbpFsPUdOQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w253-h400/Photo%2B4.png" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>National Geographic</i>, volume LXVI, no. 5 (November 1934), page 554. From the article “Southern California at Work” by Frederick Simpich. Photograph by Alexander Wiederseder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the only photo of the Bulldog with a truly definitive timeframe: it <i>must</i> have been taken before the November 1934 issue of <i>National Geographic</i> was published. The referenced text on page 544 reads as follows:</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Grotesque, indeed, are scores of startling, Coney Island-like buildings wherein food and drink are sold. Some are shaped and painted to represent giant owls, derby hats, shoes, airships, dogs, teakettles, windmills, mosques, wienerwursts, zeppelins, and igloos (see illustration, page 554). One cafe is built like a roundhouse, with a life-sized locomotive emerging from its front door. Another, the last word in realism, is a replica of a jail, bars and all!</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/americanstockphotophotographs.xml">Alexander Wiederseder</a> was a cabinetmaker and hobbyist photographer from Southern California. He seems to have mostly taken nature photographs and may have been surprised that today, a Google search for "Alexander Wiederseder" turns up mainly copies of this one roadside architecture photo. (He may also have been surprised that the Internet existed.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This photo was republished by <i>National Geographic</i> and various other sources several times over the years. Significantly, the December 2014 issue of <i>National Geographic</i> printed it at a very high resolution, enough to see that the sky in the original photo seems to have been carefully trimmed away to leave a completely blank background.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0yCaMD7hCYk/X72Rpp6lfmI/AAAAAAAAAZc/siTdNP7310I8Pv7isdU9uzPuHIUpVRPCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1130/Photo%2B4%2Bdetail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A closeup of the bulldog building's head." border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1130" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0yCaMD7hCYk/X72Rpp6lfmI/AAAAAAAAAZc/siTdNP7310I8Pv7isdU9uzPuHIUpVRPCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h280/Photo%2B4%2Bdetail.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>National Geographic</i>, volume 226, issue 6 (December 2014), page 43.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photograph by Alexander Wiederseder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The shift in coloring, as well as the obvious clipping around the leaves, give it away. I think this was either an attempt to make the sky blend in with the rest of the page more nicely in 1934 or to get rid of the wires seen extending from the Bulldog's head in Photos 1, 2, and 3 (probably power or telephone lines).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ogd70tMY1_Q/X72bnHB1XlI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ZeRctcAwR9of7xeNn6UEOtQFfHNHwbAgACLcBGAsYHQ/s1164/Photo%2B5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photo showing a head-on view of the bulldog building. The photo looks to have been scanned out of a book." border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="858" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ogd70tMY1_Q/X72bnHB1XlI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ZeRctcAwR9of7xeNn6UEOtQFfHNHwbAgACLcBGAsYHQ/w295-h400/Photo%2B5.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: <i>California Crazy: American Pop Architecture</i>, Jim Heimann, 2018. <a href="https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/04608/facts.california_crazy_american_pop_architecture.htm#images_gallery-6">Retrieval link.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Like with Photo 3, the above link isn't the true original source of this photo. A high-resolution version is available at <a href="https://www.alamy.com/bulldog-cafe-diner-los-angeles-california-1931-image239931150.html">Alamy Stock Photo</a>. It's dated "March 10, 1931" (although no source is given for the date) and is from the Burton Holmes Historical Collection, another all-encompassing stock photo archive.</div><div><br /></div><div>This photo was printed in the books <i>California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture</i> (1980), where it was cropped in a similar fashion to Photo 4 to remove the sky and wires; and in <i>California Crazy: American Pop Architecture</i> (2018), where it was uncropped.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 6</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPlvKLvpuzk/X73aVVFyTfI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/9VVrwYX4Bzwzf8p_tWJXE_YWCZ7Gt4BPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Photo%2B6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white photo of the bulldog restaurant." border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1080" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPlvKLvpuzk/X73aVVFyTfI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/9VVrwYX4Bzwzf8p_tWJXE_YWCZ7Gt4BPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h279/Photo%2B6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BB8IAZEgQcG/">Source</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This photograph appeared in a slightly more cropped and sepia-toned form in the book <i>California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture</i> by Jim Heimann, and was credited as being from the author's personal collection. I imagine he discovered it at a flea market or garage sale. Perhaps at some point he made the Idle Hour bar a copy of the original, which they posted on their Instagram.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is the last photo I have where the "1153" on the Bulldog's door is visible.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 7</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Tw60S7M7p8/X-T7w-bxU4I/AAAAAAAAAkg/wYZ11jTWyhoe6334mqkyMt6K0RSb2qGPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Photo%2B7%2B-%2BJH%2BCollection%2B-%2BIMG_4112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="594" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Tw60S7M7p8/X-T7w-bxU4I/AAAAAAAAAkg/wYZ11jTWyhoe6334mqkyMt6K0RSb2qGPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w371-h400/Photo%2B7%2B-%2BJH%2BCollection%2B-%2BIMG_4112.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Jim Heimann, via email</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jim Heimann has this photo in his personal collection and emailed me a copy of it. It shows a couple of interesting changes to the restaurant: "Ice Cream" on the Bulldog's right leg has been switched to "Sandwiches", a sign advertising "Drive In Car Service" has been added to the Bulldog's head, and the Bulldog's pipe appears to be missing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The transmission tower from Photo 1 is also visible here. It doesn't look one hundred percent like the tower from that photo, which could either be due to the angle it was captured at or to the tower being upgraded at some point.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo 8</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0cwAQ8aLh0/X73zjFHHu5I/AAAAAAAAAag/UgjETNEdsMAEyo7MDUGAXxiGWFt66T-lgCLcBGAsYHQ/s501/Photo%2B9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A blurry photograph of the bulldog building." border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="501" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0cwAQ8aLh0/X73zjFHHu5I/AAAAAAAAAag/UgjETNEdsMAEyo7MDUGAXxiGWFt66T-lgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h258/Photo%2B9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16855coll4/id/37149">Source.</a> Photograph likely by Tomoji Wada.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This photo comes from CSU Dominguez Hill's Tomoji Wada Family Papers collection. Wada lived in the Los Angeles South Bay during the 1930s. The source gives the date taken as 1938, although it's not clear how that date was determined — perhaps a date written on the back of the photo or on a box containing a set of photos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The most interesting detail here is a "FOR RENT" sign in the Bulldog's left front window.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo 9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w8_eaIvfkY8/X-T9XKoejFI/AAAAAAAAAks/X9k4Lje-m5giEVjWgBTb1bBYuHUvvY_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Photo%2B8%2B-%2BJH%2BCollection%2B-%2BIMG_4111.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="640" height="190" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w8_eaIvfkY8/X-T9XKoejFI/AAAAAAAAAks/X9k4Lje-m5giEVjWgBTb1bBYuHUvvY_SQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h190/Photo%2B8%2B-%2BJH%2BCollection%2B-%2BIMG_4111.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Jim Heimann, via email</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jim Heimann also has this photo in his personal collection and emailed me a copy of it, noting that it was actually taken by his father's cousin and dated September 30, 1940. It offers a very comprehensive picture of the landscape around the Bulldog, including the building next door and the paved street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are a few interesting things to note. "Tamale" seems to have vanished from the dog's left leg, but "Sandwiches" is still visible. There appears to be a disc-shaped object mounted on the dog's forehead, and a wire extending down the dog's face and chin. This might be a clock, or an intercom for calling out orders to waiting cars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> So far, I haven't found any photos of the Bulldog with a later date than this one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Video 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="406" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEOB1iEiv4E" width="490" youtube-src-id="WEOB1iEiv4E"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WEOB1iEiv4E">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This video was uploaded to YouTube by Periscope Film, a video archival service that occasionally publishes clips from videos it digitizes. It's described as a 16mm home movie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is, in my opinion, the most fascinating Bulldog artifact because it's so different from all the others. First of all, it's the only source to show the building in color. Additionally, there's a massive amount of text in the footage to try and glean information from. Still more surprising are the facts that the Bulldog now appears to have a street address of 638, rather than 1153, and is now apparently on a street corner rather than being right next to a house. (The black-and-white sign is almost certainly an old stop sign, like the one seen in the below image).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mVNbdfceW1E/X762cczLnhI/AAAAAAAAAas/fa14y4cSQls_LNyDCTJd4FZyrdVLpSXNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1059/Stop%2BSign.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A photograph showing a black-and-white stop sign being installed." border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="746" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mVNbdfceW1E/X762cczLnhI/AAAAAAAAAas/fa14y4cSQls_LNyDCTJd4FZyrdVLpSXNACLcBGAsYHQ/w281-h400/Stop%2BSign.png" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c8xk8cgm/?brand=oac4">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The banner on top of the Bulldog reads <i>Great Western Development Co. Real Estate Loans Insurance</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The orange sign to the left reads:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">...TERN DEVELOPMENT CO.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- REAL ESTATE - INSURANCE - CA 8914</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">... ON RAMONA ...ED RM ... STUCCO ... TRANSP</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">100 x 504 M3 ZONE $6000. CASH</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">GARVEY AVE 4 RM FRAME RM FOR ST[???] $8250.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In this mishmash of properties for sale, we can make out a few key details. First of all, the Great Western Development Co. seems to have the phone number CA-8914. (It turns out that this two-letter four-number format was a standard at one point: see Wikipedia's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names">article</a> on telephone exchange names). The CA, or CApitol, telephone exchange served a section of east Los Angeles:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skP6fyBlpvo/X77GEUviUAI/AAAAAAAAAa4/j_ImAnIg0N8rL-IIQjoqpVbiWC-P1j2twCLcBGAsYHQ/s1210/CApitol.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A map showing telephone exchange boundaries in Los Angeles." border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1210" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skP6fyBlpvo/X77GEUviUAI/AAAAAAAAAa4/j_ImAnIg0N8rL-IIQjoqpVbiWC-P1j2twCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h295/CApitol.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/usteledirec02277">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Additionally, the streets "Ramona" and "Garvey Ave" are mentioned. Ramona Boulevard, Ramona Road, and Garvey Avenue still exist in the Monterey Park area today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Bulldog's pipe is now unquestionably gone, and it's received a fresh coat of paint, restoring detail to its eyes and possibly adding a new brown patch to its back. In fact, one might even wonder if it's the same building at all. Although at this point I don't have any incontrovertible proof that it is, there are a lot of design details that would have to be shared by the two buildings if they were separate: the outlining on the dog's ears and feet, the shape of the door frame and adjacent windows, and the overall shape of the head, for example.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Conventional Wisdom About the Bulldog</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There have been a good number of articles online and in newspapers that mention the Bulldog. Most of them give its original location as "1153 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles" and its date built as either 1927 or 1928. I've seen the date demolished given vary from as early as 1955 to as late as "the 1970s." But most of those articles don't cite any sources. The ones that do always cite the book <i>California Crazy</i> by Jim Heimann.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>California Crazy</i> was published in three distinct editions: in 1980 as <i>California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture</i>, in 2001 as <i>California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture</i>, and in 2018 as <i>California Crazy: American Pop Architecture</i>. Each edition dated the Bulldog to the late 1920s / early 1930s and gave its address as 1153 West Washington Boulevard. The first and third editions called it the "Dog Cafe" and the second edition called it the "Bulldog Cafe."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's one more non-article source about the Bulldog that I know of: the plaque displayed next to the Petersen Automotive Museum's Bulldog replica from circa 1994 until 2014.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ix6JFq15PrY/X78xStBKZVI/AAAAAAAAAbE/CUxxDGYM2U0LTHB-8uHPIiWCcMf606aLACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Petersen%2BPlaque.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A museum plaque with "The Dog Cafe" written at the top." border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ix6JFq15PrY/X78xStBKZVI/AAAAAAAAAbE/CUxxDGYM2U0LTHB-8uHPIiWCcMf606aLACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/Petersen%2BPlaque.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/FGoNt">Source</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This plaque calls it the "Dog Cafe" and says it was "built on West Washington Boulevard in 1928" and "destroyed in the mid-1970s."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">However, I think that this information that's been used for the last 40 years is not completely accurate. The Bulldog was not located in the city of Los Angeles, but rather in the suburbs of Rosemead and later Monterey Park, and although it was likely built in the late 1920s / early 1930s, it probably only lasted until 1948 or 1949.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Bulldog's Location and Name</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Based on the "Valley Blvd, Alhambra" caption on Photos 1/2, as well as the possible references to eastern Los Angeles and Monterey Park in Video 1, I guessed that the Bulldog might have indeed been on Valley Boulevard in Alhambra. I contacted the Alhambra Public Library and a research librarian there kindly sent me some photographs of restaurant listings from old Alhambra-area city directories from the 1930s. The most helpful was the 1937 directory:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0UKwnhy9ask/X79MtXdGo1I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/JZgdBzgryYA1-Px4xE1T20V-3L3Hx5_TwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1937%2Bpg%2B943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A page from an old book with the text "Alhambra Classified Business Directory (1937)" at the top." border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1411" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0UKwnhy9ask/X79MtXdGo1I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/JZgdBzgryYA1-Px4xE1T20V-3L3Hx5_TwCLcBGAsYHQ/w275-h400/1937%2Bpg%2B943.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Close-up:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4n1RF8ipUk/X79MyjBLIyI/AAAAAAAAAbU/g43-0xY5qZcoknEBvW-ofoc87brEoSaKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1157/1937%2Bpg%2B943%2Bdetail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A close-up of the previous image with a list of restaurants under the heading "Rosemead." One of the restaurants is listed as "Bulldog Inn 1153 E Valley blvd."" border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="1157" height="164" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--4n1RF8ipUk/X79MyjBLIyI/AAAAAAAAAbU/g43-0xY5qZcoknEBvW-ofoc87brEoSaKgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h164/1937%2Bpg%2B943%2Bdetail.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Under the <i>Rosemead</i> subheading of the directory's "Restaurants and Lunch Rooms" category was a listing for "Bulldog Inn 1153 E Valley blvd." "1153" matched the Bulldog photos, "Valley blvd" matched the Photos 1/2 caption, and to top it all off the restaurant even had a descriptive name (in contrast to some of the other ones in the section, which just had the names of their owners). It's true that Rosemead is not Alhambra, but the two cities are close enough to each other that it seemed very reasonable for Ralph Cornell to have labeled his photos as "Alhambra."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later, I realized that I could search portions of the 1937 Rosemead directory through the Los Angeles Public Library's Ancestry Library subscription. That turned up a few more references to the Bulldog Inn:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kKdl_c5EWF0/X95Hw7YYCaI/AAAAAAAAAkM/Vy1oNpDv4ucxf_mbwmzl__eYdICNJHYmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1217/Bulldog%2BInn%2Bpg%2B645.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A piece of text reading "Bulldog Inn (May J L and Austin Sadler) restr 1153 E Valley blvd."" border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="1217" height="59" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kKdl_c5EWF0/X95Hw7YYCaI/AAAAAAAAAkM/Vy1oNpDv4ucxf_mbwmzl__eYdICNJHYmACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h59/Bulldog%2BInn%2Bpg%2B645.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EhJKqrRhNYE/X8BOZl3TZuI/AAAAAAAAAbw/lMNumqTG4T8SyeQPztYdg7vwmCLIYLhrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s933/Bulldog%2BInn%2Bpg%2B673.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three lines of text reading: "Sadler Austin (Bulldog Inn) r1153 E Valley blvd," "Sadler Jess L (Bulldog Inn) r1153 E Valley blvd," and "Sadler May (Bulldog Inn) r1153 E Valley blvd."" border="0" data-original-height="117" data-original-width="933" height="50" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EhJKqrRhNYE/X8BOZl3TZuI/AAAAAAAAAbw/lMNumqTG4T8SyeQPztYdg7vwmCLIYLhrQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h50/Bulldog%2BInn%2Bpg%2B673.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Austin Sadler, Jess L. Sadler, and May Sadler are listed as (I assume) the proprietors of the Bulldog Inn, and also as residents of 1153 E Valley Boulevard (that's what the "r" means). To me, this suggests that the house next door to the Bulldog shared the 1153 address, and its residents also owned the restaurant. This could explain the signs posted over the property line in Photos 2 and 3.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Alhambra reference librarian also uncovered this listing from 1931, which was in the "Restaurants and Lunch Rooms: Rosemead" directory section as well:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BN2bkOrJfrY/X8C2W7MT9DI/AAAAAAAAAcI/K7WXJjBXsUUkkv8iC9ORHzZKIz9-8T4JQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1575/1931%2BMaddox%2BEverett.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A list of restaurants under the heading "Rosemead." One of the restaurants is listed as "Maddox Everett 1153 E Valley blvd."" border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1575" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BN2bkOrJfrY/X8C2W7MT9DI/AAAAAAAAAcI/K7WXJjBXsUUkkv8iC9ORHzZKIz9-8T4JQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h168/1931%2BMaddox%2BEverett.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everett Maddox is listed as the proprietor of a restaurant at 1153 East Valley Boulevard. Later, I discovered an <a href="https://technospinach.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-pup-bulldog-and-maddox-family.html">account</a> from Maddox's niece that had been preserved online and confirmed that he had built and owned a bulldog-shaped restaurant "in San Gabriel." Since 1153 East Valley Boulevard is just over the San Gabriel–Rosemead border, this was definitive evidence of the Bulldog's location.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So this confirmed that all the photos of the Bulldog were taken at 1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead. Details like the mountain range in the background of Photo 3 made sense. But what about the video? The "638" address was especially confusing because it not only implied that the Bulldog's street had been completely renumbered, but that the odd and even sides had switched, which seemed unlikely. Luckily, I was able to find some background about that as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had searched the Los Angeles Public Library's licensed <i>Los Angeles Times</i> ProQuest database many times for the phone number from the sign in the video (CA-8914). Once or twice I found the same number attached to a classified ad for property in the eastern Los Angeles region, but it never had any additional information about its owner. Finally, I searched for "CA-8914" on Newspapers.com instead of the ProQuest database, and found the following advertisement:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yr1J7h70tyY/X8C6nhMlrRI/AAAAAAAAAcU/mLOZIwWYWDA7FxYTvwEEDuxUVdSwSVc-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1394/Great%2BWestern%2BDev.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A newspaper classified advertisement reading "Immediate Possession: 5 rm, stuc. New, Ultra mod. $5500, 6 rm. frame, 1 1/2 sty. firepl. $6000 - Great Western Dev., 5207 Alhambra Ave., L.A. CA-8914."" border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="1394" height="112" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yr1J7h70tyY/X8C6nhMlrRI/AAAAAAAAAcU/mLOZIwWYWDA7FxYTvwEEDuxUVdSwSVc-wCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h112/Great%2BWestern%2BDev.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, October 19, 1943, page A15.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I now had an address associated with the Great Western Development Co. seen in the video. It wasn't a "638" address, but it was something. I then searched the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> database for "5207 Alhambra Ave" and found the following news item from 1944:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i41v8C8amS8/X8C7cvJjYWI/AAAAAAAAAcg/_S5cc2qFpQgn7VcBpKYSORWv8-KMnHp0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1434/Firm%2BExpands.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A newspaper clipping reading "Firm Expands. The Great Western Development Co., real estate organization with offices at 5207 Alhambra Ave., has announced the expansion of its activities to Monterey Park and adjacent cities, with opening of offices at 638 E. Garvey Ave, Monterey Park."" border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1434" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i41v8C8amS8/X8C7cvJjYWI/AAAAAAAAAcg/_S5cc2qFpQgn7VcBpKYSORWv8-KMnHp0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h219/Firm%2BExpands.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, July 30, 1944, page 15.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was all laid out as neatly as I could have asked for. In 1944, the Great Western Development Co. opened offices at 638 East Garvey Avenue, Monterey Park. This explained the address and signage seen in the video perfectly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Searching <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009987822">records of California real estate offices</a> during the 1940s turned up results for the Great Western Development Co. at this address from 1943 through 1948, inclusive. I'm not sure how to explain the discrepancy between the 1943 listing and the 1944 newspaper article. I think the simplest explanation is that the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> article is accurate, and the 1943 directory just preemptively listed the office, perhaps because the Great Western Development Co. had already registered that address with some entity. The other possibility is that the article's phrase "has announced the expansion of its activities to Monterey Park and adjacent cities, with opening of offices at 638 E. Garvey Ave, Monterey Park" should really have read "has announced the expansion of its activities <i>in</i> Monterey Park and adjacent cities, with opening of <i>additional</i> offices at 638 E. Garvey Ave, Monterey Park." But that's a weird stretch and I think the first interpretation is more likely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These pieces of evidence prove that this restaurant was located on 1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead until some point between 1940 and 1944, when it was moved to 638 East Garvey Avenue, Monterey Park and used as a real estate office.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Read on for why the commonly cited address of "1153 West Washington Boulevard" can't be correct and where this mistake may have come from, some more excruciating detail about where exactly in Rosemead and Monterey Park the two aforementioned addresses are today, and when the Bulldog may finally have been destroyed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Why the Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div>With an actual account from a family member of the Bulldog's creator backing up its location in Rosemead, the "1153 West Washington Boulevard" location is not really a candidate anymore. However, it's worth looking at where this location came from and why it can't be correct.</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1980, the Bulldog was pictured in the book <i>California Crazy</i> with the caption "The Dog Cafe / Location: 1153 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles / Circa 1928." All other mentions of the Bulldog's location can be traced back to this book, or one of its other two editions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfq6RaBU9rI/X8GxveJsnjI/AAAAAAAAAdY/BgKQM9MuIWIkHHqFWTE94sl-0mCXRcfogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1337/ca_crazy_1980.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A spread from a book featuring a photo of the bulldog building." border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1337" height="210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfq6RaBU9rI/X8GxveJsnjI/AAAAAAAAAdY/BgKQM9MuIWIkHHqFWTE94sl-0mCXRcfogCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h210/ca_crazy_1980.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture</i>,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim Heimann and Rip Georges, 1980, pages 50-51. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031208609">Retrieval link.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the 1930s, the address "1153 West Washington Boulevard" could have led someone to one of two city blocks in Los Angeles: one near downtown (in the neighborhood today called Pico-Union) and one in Venice (on the section of West Washington Boulevard renamed Abbot Kinney Boulevard in 1990). I originally considered both locations in this section, but learned from Jim Heimann via email that he specifically had the Pico-Union location in mind when writing <i>California Crazy</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mr. Heimann explained to me that in the 1970s he had found a listing in an old Los Angeles telephone book for a cafe called the "Dog" or "Bulldog" at 1153 West Washington Boulevard near downtown. This was, at the time, the best hypothesis for the restaurant's location; but in the intervening years so much material has been digitized that evidence has emerged against it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let's first examine 1153 West Washington Boulevard in a bit more detail. A 1917 advertisement in the <i>Los Angeles Evening Herald</i> listed "Makepiece, W. O., 1153 W. Washington" as a druggist in Los Angeles selling Applju brand juice. Note that the advertisement had a separate section for stores in Venice, but that this store was listed in the "Los Angeles" section, confirming that Makepiece's pharmacy was in Pico-Union.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ccSONollVwY/X82GkNWeRdI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/2BV09onuB8sfrOoSR6fLIP2VUi-iKt8fQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1588/LA%2BHerald%2B1917.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A list of names and addresses including "Makepiece, W. O., 1153 W. Washington."" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1588" height="159" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ccSONollVwY/X82GkNWeRdI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/2BV09onuB8sfrOoSR6fLIP2VUi-iKt8fQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h159/LA%2BHerald%2B1917.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Evening Herald</i>, June 4, 1917. <a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19170604.2.253.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1">Retrieval link.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 1927 Los Angeles street directory lists a "Wash Pharmacy" at 1153 West Washington Boulevard:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-LE3_u_lkI/X82MFGGRpqI/AAAAAAAAAgc/zMu8t-9nV-MxLDEuyeiuMKeukJ9-VCbiACLcBGAsYHQ/s762/1153%2BW%2BWash.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Text reading "1153 - Wash Pharmacy"" border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="762" height="69" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-LE3_u_lkI/X82MFGGRpqI/AAAAAAAAAgc/zMu8t-9nV-MxLDEuyeiuMKeukJ9-VCbiACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h69/1153%2BW%2BWash.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=026bc4f2-52f9-4cbf-b1e4-12291b1cd6d0/cl000000/20170519/00000005&pg_seq=302&search_doc=1153">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The pharmacy's position in the list of West Washington addresses makes it clear that this, again, is the Pico-Union address.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's not out of the question that the Bulldog could have shared its address with the Washington Pharmacy, or even doubled as a pharmacy itself. To really be sure, we should look at old aerial photographs of the area.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Unfortunately, it's not trivial to narrow down the location of "1153 West Washington Boulevard" in the 1930s to anything more specific than a block or two. The 1934 Los Angeles city directory says that the 1100 block of West Washington Boulevard began at Oak Street and ended at Toberman Street. But a 1915 <a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19150504.2.49.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1">advertisement</a> says that W.O. Makepeace's Washington Pharmacy was at "Burlington and Washington," a couple blocks further west. Was the ad just giving a general location, or was the 1934 directory not entirely accurate?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For what it's worth, the L.A. County Assessor's <a href="https://portal.assessor.lacounty.gov/">website</a> shows a lot with address "1153" on the corner of South Burlington Avenue and West Washington Boulevard (although there's no longer a specific building with this address). But whatever the case is, we can just look at this whole area of West Washington Boulevard and check for anything that could match the photos of the Bulldog. Here's an image of the area from 1931. West Washington Boulevard is the street running from the middle of the left side to the bottom right corner.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGr99dIEcgc/X82NyPuOXBI/AAAAAAAAAgw/HNlkqV04-5UuezGUgQV49fU_yfe_qyIQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1573/West%2BWashington%2BBoulevard%2B1931.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white aerial photograph of city streets." border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="1573" height="344" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGr99dIEcgc/X82NyPuOXBI/AAAAAAAAAgw/HNlkqV04-5UuezGUgQV49fU_yfe_qyIQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h344/West%2BWashington%2BBoulevard%2B1931.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_images/c-1930/c-1930_18.tif">Source</a> [direct link to TIFF file]. From the UCSB Library's <a href="https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/">aerial photo collection</a>.</div><br /></div></div></div><div>The open fields seen behind the Bulldog are nowhere to be found. It doesn't seem possible for pictures to have been taken here in the 1930s that show empty space stretching back very far.</div><div><br /></div><div>Additionally, this segment of West Washington Boulevard had trolley tracks during the first half of the 20th century. I confirmed this by looking at old maps of the Los Angeles Railway such as <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~24250~880079:Map-of-Los-Angeles,-California--Cop">this one</a> and <a href="https://www.lataco.com/1934-map-of-public-transport-in-l-a/">this one</a>. (The tracks are also just barely visible in the aerial photo above.) Below is a photo dated 1924 of the </div><div>Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank, Washington and Burlington Branch. According to the 1925 Los Angeles city directory, this building was located at 1156 West Washington Boulevard and so was probably right across the street from 1153 West Washington Boulevard. Trolley tracks are clearly visible running along West Washington Boulevard in the foreground.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-02B0aKHVZYI/X-08jfTNa5I/AAAAAAAAArI/4ZeAYx189wUYKBoBH-gVeFN9-ncW-S2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/s971/PacificSouthwest_Trust__Savings_Bank__Washington_and_Burlington_Branch_Los_Angeles_CA_1924_image_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="971" height="285" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-02B0aKHVZYI/X-08jfTNa5I/AAAAAAAAArI/4ZeAYx189wUYKBoBH-gVeFN9-ncW-S2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h285/PacificSouthwest_Trust__Savings_Bank__Washington_and_Burlington_Branch_Los_Angeles_CA_1924_image_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll170/id/67882">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div>These tracks should have been visible in Photo 3 or Photo 9 if those pictures were taken on West Washington Boulevard.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>One other small piece of evidence is that the original caption to Photo 4 mentioned the "suburbs of Los Angeles," which doesn't sound like a reference to an area close to downtown and could easily rule out Pico-Union if it were accurate.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Excruciating Location Details</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the section "The Bulldog's Location and Name" above, I talked about the evidence for the Bulldog being located in Rosemead and, later, Monterey Park, but didn't look too deeply into the actual spots in those cities where the Bulldog would have sat. This is a closer look into those two spots for those who are interested.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>1153 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first thing to figure out is where this address would have even been, geographically. It's not trivial because at some point after 1937, the portion of Valley Boulevard that runs through Rosemead was readdressed. Today, if you travel east on Valley Boulevard through San Gabriel to Rosemead, you'll see the street addresses tick upwards into the range of "1131" right on the border — until you actually cross into Rosemead and the addresses switch over to "8527," "8531," etc. However, I'm pretty confident that in the 1930s, the addresses didn't switch and the westernmost Rosemead block of Valley Boulevard retained the 1100 numbering.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As evidence for the old addressing scheme of East Valley Boulevard in Rosemead, I found a <a href="http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/7986/">Los Angeles atlas</a> from 1943. The section below shows addresses on East Valley Boulevard starting with 100 at Del Mar Avenue, then counting upward: 400, 500, 600, 800, 850, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400. The diagonal dotted line is the Rubio Wash, marking the border between San Gabriel and Rosemead. The Bulldog would have been right past that border, near the intersection of East Valley Boulevard and Walnut Grove Avenue — on the north side of the street, which we know because of the mountains in Photo 3.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CL_8oclVQ_E/X82RtY_2-HI/AAAAAAAAAhI/VQEJPv3ISnAVwN2K2yNonaxjaPtLlbXWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1780/atlas.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A map showing Valley Boulevard." border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1780" height="161" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CL_8oclVQ_E/X82RtY_2-HI/AAAAAAAAAhI/VQEJPv3ISnAVwN2K2yNonaxjaPtLlbXWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h161/atlas.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Renie Pocket Atlas of Los Angeles, 1943. <a href="http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/31544/Page+047/Los+Angeles+1943+Pocket+Atlas/California/">Retrieval link.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So if we go off the idea that the Bulldog was on this block, then we can look at old aerial photos and try to compare them to the Bulldog pictures. Below is my attempt using a photo from 1938. (All aerial images taken from <a href="http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_images/c-5364/c-5364_16.tif">this photo</a> f<span style="text-align: center;">rom the UCSB Library's </span><a href="https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/" style="text-align: center;">aerial photo collection</a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First, a view of what I think was the Bulldog, the buildings next to it, and the fields behind it. East Valley Boulevard is the street running from left to right at the bottom. Walnut Grove Avenue runs down the right-hand side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V_mJDWnBavE/X82ZUB7ewiI/AAAAAAAAAhU/NrKHEAxVLfwsNdtAgvUsRYACO7l9p6vgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s973/Rosemead%2B1938.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A black-and-white aerial photo of a rural area." border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="570" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V_mJDWnBavE/X82ZUB7ewiI/AAAAAAAAAhU/NrKHEAxVLfwsNdtAgvUsRYACO7l9p6vgwCLcBGAsYHQ/w234-h400/Rosemead%2B1938.png" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think these are two power transmission towers at the top right. They're pretty grainy, but you can make out their shadows. These would match the tower seen in Photos 1 and 7.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kud0eQ3Dxv8/X82Zvk0iVQI/AAAAAAAAAhc/pOGMNGwY0RQr0ZUKoeFl-GzzVQj6CrnXACLcBGAsYHQ/s278/towers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A close-up of the rural aerial photo." border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="278" height="247" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kud0eQ3Dxv8/X82Zvk0iVQI/AAAAAAAAAhc/pOGMNGwY0RQr0ZUKoeFl-GzzVQj6CrnXACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h247/towers.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now, a closer look at just the Bulldog and the buildings next to it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTyApbLDWpI/X82aJMtjhSI/AAAAAAAAAho/8XoyOfY7uiQSEzQlhqF2CKQkK6S4NLTyACLcBGAsYHQ/s212/aerial%2Bbulldog.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A close-up of the rural aerial photo." border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="212" height="387" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTyApbLDWpI/X82aJMtjhSI/AAAAAAAAAho/8XoyOfY7uiQSEzQlhqF2CKQkK6S4NLTyACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h387/aerial%2Bbulldog.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The building on the top left could be the one visible in Photo 4. The building on the bottom right could be the house next to the Bulldog. And of course, the white blob on the left of that second building could be the Bulldog itself. Also note the dividing line on Valley Boulevard and how the Bulldog is closer to the street than the house, just as seen in the photographs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If we look closely at the reflection in the Bulldog's windows in Photo 4, we can make out a cylindrical shape on the right:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X_a1NXQtYl0/X82b068gVXI/AAAAAAAAAh0/qMGzVcYhcPMh-9b5VLTOB14BH_VV8FyQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s352/nat%2Bgeo%2B2014.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A close-up of "Photo 4" showing the reflections in the bulldog building's windows." border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="334" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X_a1NXQtYl0/X82b068gVXI/AAAAAAAAAh0/qMGzVcYhcPMh-9b5VLTOB14BH_VV8FyQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w380-h400/nat%2Bgeo%2B2014.png" width="380" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>National Geographic</i>, volume 226, issue 6 (December 2014), page 43.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photograph by Alexander Wiederseder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think that could be the round building on the bottom right, which seems to be in the correct position relative to the "Bulldog" blob. It could also be the curved section of the house visible directly across the street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PdJEG7XTqSU/X82cMUi223I/AAAAAAAAAh8/yQDBBv91NqQRllju94S9DRLYI78_32yrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s254/cylinder.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A close-up of the rural aerial photograph showing a round building." border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="254" height="339" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PdJEG7XTqSU/X82cMUi223I/AAAAAAAAAh8/yQDBBv91NqQRllju94S9DRLYI78_32yrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h339/cylinder.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was one other thing I noticed in that reflection: a flipped sign with the letters "REALT." In the 1937 Rosemead directory, there's a listing for "Mrs. M. Rose Wise real est, 1140 East Valley Boulevard." "1140," an even address, would probably have been on the opposite side of the street from "1153." I'd guess that's the building whose sign was reflected.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some time after studying the aerial photo, I found a <a href="https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/15475">1933 land-use map of Rosemead</a> in the Huntington Library's online collection. When I looked at the section corresponding to the aerial photo, I was pleasantly surprised to see most of my assumptions confirmed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXMyjjMr30Q/X9r3XMWHSLI/AAAAAAAAAjw/oDrlw55zB2k2RcOb75F8NTkdLyzWimrYACLcBGAsYHQ/s1168/land_use.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A hand-drawn map showing the usage of plots of land." border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="634" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXMyjjMr30Q/X9r3XMWHSLI/AAAAAAAAAjw/oDrlw55zB2k2RcOb75F8NTkdLyzWimrYACLcBGAsYHQ/w217-h400/land_use.png" width="217" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> A section of the land-use map. Valley Boulevard is the white road running from</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">left to right about halfway down. Walnut Grove Avenue runs down the right-hand side. <a href="https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/15475">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wide purple strip reads (on the full map) "Southern California Edison Company Right of Way." It's almost certainly land that the Edison power company used for transmission towers — that's what this strip of land is still used for in Rosemead today. This makes it seem even more likely that the transmission tower seen in Photo 1 is the same as the transmission tower visible in the aerial photo above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SaQJ7ExtwRs/X9r5WkywwYI/AAAAAAAAAj8/pPjkHdE1_I0dIriUppDkOaKHBdsX--cfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s322/land_use_closeup.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A hand-drawn map showing the usage of plots of land." border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="140" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SaQJ7ExtwRs/X9r5WkywwYI/AAAAAAAAAj8/pPjkHdE1_I0dIriUppDkOaKHBdsX--cfgCLcBGAsYHQ/w174-h400/land_use_closeup.png" width="174" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Zooming in even more. The intersection of East Valley Boulevard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and Walnut Grove Avenue is on the right. <a href="https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15150coll4/id/15475">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From left to right, top to bottom, the captions read: "??? Stand," "Grapes," "Lunch stand - ???," "Lunch stand," "Ser. Sta.," "Real Estate office," "Chickens," and "Service Station."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was very happy to see that there was a real estate office across the street from where I think the Bulldog was, just like I'd predicted from the reflection seen in Photo 4. The three "stands" were also promising. By overlaying the land-use map onto the aerial photo, I was able to determine that the "Bulldog" blob matched the label "Lunch stand - ???". If that illegible word were "Dog," it would be a great piece of evidence. Unfortunately, the scanned land-use map just doesn't have enough detail to be sure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If we look at the location today, we can still see transmission towers and mountains in the background. The mountains in Photo 3 must have been the San Gabriel Mountains. The Bulldog's original location can be found today at 8525 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_X3ly5Qhls/X82dXGkdY3I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/GQM-wuILaLsBA9fKS535bxFkRE9e6hCpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1954/rosemead%2B2019.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A city street with some transmission towers visible in the background." border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="1954" height="244" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_X3ly5Qhls/X82dXGkdY3I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/GQM-wuILaLsBA9fKS535bxFkRE9e6hCpgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h244/rosemead%2B2019.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Google Street View, 2019.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>638 East Garvey Avenue, Monterey Park</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Examining this location is easier because the address doesn't seem to have changed since the 1940s. A 1949 map confirms that the 600 block of East Garvey Avenue was in the same location then as it is today. However, there's only a parking lot where 638 East Garvey Avenue should be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZNFFNGcNMM/X82e0vzhnfI/AAAAAAAAAic/S4ujlfP6lugUz7Bz4HLvfc-k0n2kmsr_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1388/sanborn%2Bmap.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A map showing East Garvey Avenue." border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1388" height="208" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZNFFNGcNMM/X82e0vzhnfI/AAAAAAAAAic/S4ujlfP6lugUz7Bz4HLvfc-k0n2kmsr_wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h208/sanborn%2Bmap.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Monterey Park Sanborn map, 1925, updated 1949. <a href="https://digitalsanbornmaps-proquest-com.ezproxy.lapl.org/browse_maps/5/699/2971/3127/40862">Retrieval link.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In a 1948 aerial photo, we can just make out a blob where the 1949 parking lot is that could be the Bulldog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSrzY3iQ7jc/X82fime4P9I/AAAAAAAAAik/pGh6ixQ2SbU11-sJ-JylhvXNp_-rFDaZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1038/historic%2Baerial.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A blurry aerial photo." border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="1038" height="197" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSrzY3iQ7jc/X82fime4P9I/AAAAAAAAAik/pGh6ixQ2SbU11-sJ-JylhvXNp_-rFDaZwCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h197/historic%2Baerial.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Bulldog might be in the upper left quadrant. <a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This would line up with how, in Video 1, the Bulldog is on a street corner. In a 1949 aerial photo of the same spot, the parking lot is all that's visible. This, combined with the disappearance of the Great Western Development Co.'s Monterey Park address between 1948 and 1949, suggests to me that the Bulldog was demolished in 1948 or 1949 or that it moved to some as-yet-unknown third location.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what the Monterey Park location looked like in 2019. The "638" address now belongs to ADT Insurance Services, which is part of a larger strip mall. I tried to capture the building from a similar angle to Video 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h6lrpKLHGBA/X82r8U-e_7I/AAAAAAAAAiw/p4WeHIDn1bUnCv5vezp3kuCBQNUfXHt4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2162/garvey%2B2019.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A strip mall and city street." border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="2162" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h6lrpKLHGBA/X82r8U-e_7I/AAAAAAAAAiw/p4WeHIDn1bUnCv5vezp3kuCBQNUfXHt4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h160/garvey%2B2019.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Google Street View, 2019.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just so there is absolutely no ambiguity, the coordinates of my best guesses for the Bulldog's two locations are (34.080854, -118.083101) for Rosemead and (34.062355, -118.113406) for Monterey Park.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Bulldog Lives On</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>The Rocketeer</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1982, the Bulldog appeared in Chapter 1 of Dave Stevens’ <i>The Rocketeer</i> comic and was featured several more times throughout the series, most prominently in the Chapter 4 opening splash panel. Within the comic, the restaurant was referred to as the "Bulldog Cafe." I think Dave Stevens invented the name himself, perhaps inspired by <i>California Crazy</i>'s usage of "Dog Cafe." Even if he didn't know it, he was pretty close to "Bulldog Inn."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found the below pages at <a href="https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1281525361801486337">this link</a>. To confirm which <i>Rocketeer</i> chapters they appeared in, I looked through a copy of 2009's <i>The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sBIdhacqI6I/X81ScUFjOvI/AAAAAAAAAeI/_LBVF8rC05s8TUDQ4pYNEC4wrSyHfcx9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1836/rocketeer%2Bch%2B1%2Bpg%2B1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A comic book page showing action at the "Bulldog Cafe."" border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sBIdhacqI6I/X81ScUFjOvI/AAAAAAAAAeI/_LBVF8rC05s8TUDQ4pYNEC4wrSyHfcx9gCLcBGAsYHQ/w279-h400/rocketeer%2Bch%2B1%2Bpg%2B1.jpeg" width="279" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>The Rocketeer</i>, chapter 1, page 1, writer/artist Dave Stevens, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">colorist unknown. Originally published in <i>Starslayer</i> #2, 1982.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nrdHeg2-Bog/X81SvqtBO4I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/F150QeSpAdYLjl7kK7irwzSUp_k3VVYXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1856/rocketeer%2Bch%2B4%2Bpg%2B1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A comic book page with a large image of the "Bulldog Cafe" and text reading "The Rocketeer - Chapter 4."" border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nrdHeg2-Bog/X81SvqtBO4I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/F150QeSpAdYLjl7kK7irwzSUp_k3VVYXACLcBGAsYHQ/w276-h400/rocketeer%2Bch%2B4%2Bpg%2B1.jpeg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>The Rocketeer</i>, chapter 4, page 2, writer/artist Dave Stevens, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">colorist unknown. Originally published in <i>Pacific Presents</i> #2, 1983.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In an interview with the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, Dave Stevens said "I discovered [the Bulldog] in a 1934 <i>National Geographic</i> magazine" (source: "Flying a Rocky Road: 'Rocketeer' Rides a Bumpy Course From Comics to the Screen," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> June 16, 1991). That would be Alexander Wiederseder's Photo 4, of course. Stevens clearly used Photo 5 as an additional reference, copying the "Toasted Sandwich" and ice cream signs on the Bulldog's windows directly. He even kept the "1153" over the door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1991, Walt Disney Pictures released <i>The Rocketeer</i> movie. A replica Bulldog was constructed in Ventura County for exterior shots. Here's a relevant clipping from the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YkAC-4TeE6k/X81Y4XDJpjI/AAAAAAAAAec/mbcNFkFi9GcQwA2wV6RpywNQ7Ymi7sFXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1508/Movie%2Bset.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="2-Story ‘Bulldog’ Watches Movie Set. Hollywood movie companies continue to turn rural Ventura County into their back lot, this time by constructing a 24-foot-tall bulldog crouching beside a road near Piru. Walt Disney Pictures has re-created a 1930s eatery - complete with bulldog clenching a barrel pipe in its jaws and a sign that says “Bulldog Cafe - Eats.” The building at Newhall Ranch is a set for “The Rocketeer,” a movie about a young aviator. The picture, starring Bill Campbell, is scheduled to be released next summer. Production designer Jim Bissell said the studio came to Piru because it lacked space on its lot. The ranch’s vegetation made it a perfect location for the set, he said. Bissell said the set re-creates a street scene in the San Fernando Valley during the 1930s, and the cafe is a replica of one once located at 1153 W. Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles. “It’s very much in keeping with the kind of nuttiness that was L.A. in the ‘30s,” Bissell said. The recently completed structure is composed of a durable foam material formed over chicken wire and plywood. - Kathleen Williams" border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1508" height="289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YkAC-4TeE6k/X81Y4XDJpjI/AAAAAAAAAec/mbcNFkFi9GcQwA2wV6RpywNQ7Ymi7sFXwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h289/Movie%2Bset.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, "Ventura County News Roundup" section, November 26, 1990.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Article by Kathleen Williams.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are a few shots from the movie itself. The first one is from about 25 minutes in and the second one is from about 1 hour and 40 minutes in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-moC_eME1XcU/X81dWFPMSGI/AAAAAAAAAeo/xnWDkjp0cSoMhSAFdRI5eDK4vDfc1ma5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2560/movie1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A movie still showing the Bulldog Cafe at night." border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="2560" height="171" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-moC_eME1XcU/X81dWFPMSGI/AAAAAAAAAeo/xnWDkjp0cSoMhSAFdRI5eDK4vDfc1ma5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h171/movie1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ous8vQxf2_k/X81dWt5-MxI/AAAAAAAAAes/I-K8WgAsHGsdJZr9vjWOevNPlqwJGYE5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2560/movie2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A movie still showing the Bulldog Cafe during the day." border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="2560" height="170" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ous8vQxf2_k/X81dWt5-MxI/AAAAAAAAAes/I-K8WgAsHGsdJZr9vjWOevNPlqwJGYE5gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h170/movie2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source for both stills: <i>The Rocketeer</i>, Walt Disney Pictures, 1991.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The building's signage reads "Bull Dog Cafe" in the movie, which isn't really how "bulldog" is spelled, but whatever. Strangely, Disney changed the address number to "3521" (although they kept the window advertisements the same).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A Bulldog Cafe set was visible on the Backstage Studio Tour attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park at Walt Disney World, Florida. It was on the tour from 1991 until 1996, according to a commenter at <a href="http://disneyvacationkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/bulldog-cafe.html">this link</a>. Here's a photo of the Bulldog Cafe on the Studio Tour:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UNJKAIBW9qs/X81jcNlaOsI/AAAAAAAAAe8/7u_rylJKayYyWJw9422J5Wz_HVNuqe3SACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/studio%2Btour.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A replica of the Bulldog Cafe from "The Rocketeer" sits next to a road." border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1391" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UNJKAIBW9qs/X81jcNlaOsI/AAAAAAAAAe8/7u_rylJKayYyWJw9422J5Wz_HVNuqe3SACLcBGAsYHQ/w271-h400/studio%2Btour.jpeg" width="271" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GoAwayGreen/status/1174147134393921538">Source.</a> Dated August 13, 1994.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'd always assumed that there was one Bulldog Cafe exterior set built for <i>The Rocketeer</i>, which was moved from California to Florida after filming. But a few detailed comments that I've seen on various Facebook posts have called that into question. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1415073512043865/permalink/2458639741020565/">One commenter</a> identified himself as a stage manager from the movie shoot and said that Disney built <i>two</i> "full-size, 1:1 scale replicas of the Bulldog Cafe," one for exterior/interior scenes and one for interior scenes and rear shots. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10207388052832546&set=gm.1666443596969398">Another <i>Rocketeer</i> fan</a> described three Bulldogs: an exterior built in Ventura County, an interior built in San Pedro, and a third replica built in Florida just for the Studio Tour. Honestly, it does kind of make more sense that Disney would simply build another set on the tour rather than trucking the whole Bulldog across the country.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After 1996, the Studio Tour Bulldog was put backstage at Disney World, where it gradually succumbed to the elements. There's an anecdote on <a href="https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/rocketeer-bulldog-cafe-pic.13883/">this <i>Rocketeer</i> forum thread</a> from a former Disney employee who saw the Bulldog in this state:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><blockquote>When I was working at WDW in 2002, it was behind the magic kingdom in an area they call PLUTOPark. ... The cafe was in two pieces, lying side by side on the ground. There was a giant hole in one side of it.</blockquote></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, the fact that the Bulldog appeared in a Disney movie means that it will be difficult for it to ever be completely forgotten. Disney's archival team will probably save enough material related to the <i>Rocketeer</i> movie that the Bulldog's memory will be safe for the foreseeable future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Petersen Automotive Museum / Idle Hour</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1994, the Petersen Automotive Museum opened in Los Angeles. On the museum's ground floor was a replica Bulldog, displayed as part of the museum's immersive "Streetscape" exhibit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I6nUjkomCNw/X810muTTBnI/AAAAAAAAAfI/WycoEsWsp5AjYRmMfxLMJuchWDJ4W7yAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s900/dog%2Bunder%2Bconstruction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A dog-shaped building under construction inside a museum." border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I6nUjkomCNw/X810muTTBnI/AAAAAAAAAfI/WycoEsWsp5AjYRmMfxLMJuchWDJ4W7yAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h320/dog%2Bunder%2Bconstruction.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Petersen Automotive Museum's Bulldog replica under construction in 1994. <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/03/petersen-museums-bulldog-cafe-saved-from-demolition">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Bulldog replica remained in the Petersen Automotive Museum for the next 20 years, described by a plaque as "The Dog Cafe" (see further up for a picture of the plaque). The window advertising matched Photo 5, just like in <i>The Rocketeer</i>. "Smoke" occasionally rose from the Bulldog's pipe, as seen in <a href="https://archive.org/details/calanhm_000082">this video</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yEkRKjw6fA/X816ov8l7SI/AAAAAAAAAfU/LrAQI_rYb7M6CLRA28ba9KZ5bNIhr4jcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2500/dogcafe01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A bulldog-shaped building is displayed as part of a replica 1930s street scene." border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2500" height="173" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yEkRKjw6fA/X816ov8l7SI/AAAAAAAAAfU/LrAQI_rYb7M6CLRA28ba9KZ5bNIhr4jcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h173/dogcafe01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Petersen Automotive Museum's Bulldog replica, probably around 2014. <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/03/petersen-museums-bulldog-cafe-saved-from-demolition">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2014, the Petersen Automotive Museum was completely remodeled and the Bulldog replica was dismantled and removed by preservationist Bobby Green of the 1933 Group. See <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/03/petersen-museums-bulldog-cafe-saved-from-demolition">this article</a> for a detailed account of the process, as well as many more photos. <a href="https://youtu.be/Ywy6VcR7qoc">This video</a> also provides some insight.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3UclSU7AXM/X818PVjri2I/AAAAAAAAAfk/RGOZxbV6X_AW6cVmC7yck9TYqr-4VVikACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/dogcafe14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A bulldog-shaped building being dismantled inside a museum" border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3UclSU7AXM/X818PVjri2I/AAAAAAAAAfk/RGOZxbV6X_AW6cVmC7yck9TYqr-4VVikACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/dogcafe14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The replica mid-dismantlement. <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/03/petersen-museums-bulldog-cafe-saved-from-demolition">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K_eE_tbLv1c/X818OYOCtyI/AAAAAAAAAfg/K4WFr9lha88JBm_1stS844jpGsYyXw4SgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/dogcafe19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The head of the museum's bulldog building being trucked down a city street." border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K_eE_tbLv1c/X818OYOCtyI/AAAAAAAAAfg/K4WFr9lha88JBm_1stS844jpGsYyXw4SgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/dogcafe19.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Moving the replica in pieces. <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/03/petersen-museums-bulldog-cafe-saved-from-demolition">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The replica Bulldog was then reassembled on the back patio of the <a href="https://www.idlehourbar.com/">Idle Hour</a>, an old Los Angeles bar shaped like a barrel that was in the process of being rejuvenated by the 1933 Group.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E23QolXNJvg/X82AzlCZJ2I/AAAAAAAAAfw/PyoAqj1iGAgTqhruyMLfCFp55rBcuapGACLcBGAsYHQ/s1048/idlehour.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The museum's bulldog building being reassembled outdoors." border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1036" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E23QolXNJvg/X82AzlCZJ2I/AAAAAAAAAfw/PyoAqj1iGAgTqhruyMLfCFp55rBcuapGACLcBGAsYHQ/w395-h400/idlehour.png" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Reassembling the replica. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/x-xw6yi3ZS/">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To this day, the Bulldog sits on the Idle Hour's back patio and is available as a dining room for private parties. <a href="https://youtu.be/6d7B9wagJQk">This YouTube video</a> takes a peek inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HfJ7I09gzUM/X82Db_aT5eI/AAAAAAAAAf8/rwhvl0f5RyMw-B7pH6xpiQOuC3bFmqlzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Idle%2BHour%2Bpatio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The bulldog building sits on the patio of a restaurant." border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HfJ7I09gzUM/X82Db_aT5eI/AAAAAAAAAf8/rwhvl0f5RyMw-B7pH6xpiQOuC3bFmqlzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Idle%2BHour%2Bpatio.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theinfatuation.com/los-angeles/guides/dog-friendly-bars-los-angeles">Source</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9Sq0efZz9w/X82EDD4Fp9I/AAAAAAAAAgE/lYyvKZx2PGkMDKDIaChdOREigswpBtO9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/mask.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The bulldog building wearing a giant cloth surgical mask." border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1080" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9Sq0efZz9w/X82EDD4Fp9I/AAAAAAAAAgE/lYyvKZx2PGkMDKDIaChdOREigswpBtO9gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h399/mask.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">October 3, 2020. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5se_EBfqW/">Source.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are already so many articles, Instagram photos, and videos of the Idle Hour's "Backyard Bulldog" that, again, the memory of this building should be very well-preserved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another misconception I've seen online is that the Bulldog replica from the Petersen Automotive Museum is the same as the one built for <i>The Rocketeer</i>. Side by side, they're clearly different, but I do wonder if someone at the Petersen in 1994 was inspired to include a replica of this specific restaurant because <i>The Rocketeer</i> had just featured it three years previously. If so, then we could trace a very clear thread from <span style="text-align: center;">Alexander Wiederseder's photo of the original Bulldog to</span> Dave Stevens' inclusion of it in <i>The Rocketeer</i> comic to its appearance in the movie to the replica at the Petersen and, now, the Idle Hour. That would be so cool.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Conclusion</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I would like to give thanks to the public libraries of California. Without their online newspaper databases, city directory and photo archives, and book collections, I would never have been able to do any of this research. Additionally, every research librarian I talked to throughout this project was friendly and some of them really went above and beyond to help me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also want to thank Jim Heimann, who worked hard to preserve the memory of buildings such as the Bulldog so that people such as myself could learn about them decades later. He also graciously allowed me to use some photos from his personal collection as part of this blog post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to everyone who's read this far and I hope you learned something. If you have definitive proof that anything I discussed was correct or incorrect, or if — just maybe — you remember a bulldog-shaped building in Rosemead or Monterey Park, please let me know in the comments or via email!</div></div>Technospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-89800715101629695902015-01-08T23:47:00.001-08:002015-01-08T23:47:02.317-08:00January 2015 Photo Dump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Technospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-90721200246165557132011-03-04T18:33:00.000-08:002011-03-04T19:11:22.533-08:00The Happy Airplane<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once upon a time, there was an airplane.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A happy airplane.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An awesome picture.</span><br />
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</span>Technospinachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14272410790712072173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855783716799355098.post-42836813982795194372011-01-30T19:24:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:51:43.636-08:00Santa Barbara Photos<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some cool pictures I took down in Santa Barbara last week:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zDI7LLJ6JG4/TUYocDYysbI/AAAAAAAAAD0/E_sANmSthy4/s1600/IMG_4586.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zDI7LLJ6JG4/TUYocDYysbI/AAAAAAAAAD0/E_sANmSthy4/s400/IMG_4586.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some views of the Pacific Ocean.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zDI7LLJ6JG4/TUYq7hsoCkI/AAAAAAAAAEE/W2NmFIe5iCk/s1600/IMG_4589.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zDI7LLJ6JG4/TUYq7hsoCkI/AAAAAAAAAEE/W2NmFIe5iCk/s400/IMG_4589.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A nice, minimal shot of the beach.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thanks for reading.</span></span></div></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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