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- Grand Central Terminal
- Hats, hats, hats!
- Buggy whips
- A Not-So-Grand Central
- Must ask
- Preview Of Coming Attractions
- Crosswalks
- Meet me tonight in Dreamland
- Could we put on
- What's the season?
- Fountain
- Surprised, Fascinated and Curious
- Nice touch
- A sad end for the Potsdam
- Horse muffler
- Energy conservation
- Are these really the Alger children?
- Lost to "Progress"
- Fred's Chauffeur
- Equine Exhaust
- Not for public release
- More pole less trees
- What a shame
- Rounding the corner
- Who needs poles?
- No longer there
- Sacrament Meeting
- Before the Three Freds
- A story of three Freds (and a Frances)
- Death on Mt. Washington: The Tale of Lizzie Bourne
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The Toad Inn: 1930s
Located in Santa Monica Canyon, California. Good food and for some reason one of their specials was frog legs. View full size.
Not in Santa Monica Canyon
This is the Toed Inn after it was moved out of Santa Monica Canyon -- it was in the great flood of 1938 and moved after that up toward Los Angeles proper on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood. When they moved it, that's when it was enclosed. Here's a photo of how it looked when it was in its original location in the canyon; it was an open side stand.
Paper Moon
I can imagine Addie Loggins and Moses Pray eating here!
The Toes
They do point in. We also had the Glider Inn in Seal Beach, with a large propeller mounted above the entrance.
Toad? Toed?
I don't recall ever seeing a cursive "a," even a stylized one, looking quite like that, so I speculate that the establishment is, for a reason known but to the proprietor and now lost in the mists of time, a pun on "toed in," and further represented by another, visual, pun: a toad.
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