The creature's red eyes and great gash of a mouth are outlined with scarlet neon tubes, Just above its nose, and perpetually out of reach e so many of the good things in ife, hangs a dripping beer keg. This ingenious monstrosity is known as Toed Inn—not that the frog is second cousin to a toad, but because the monster's reptilian feet are turned toward each other.
Also along the road to Malibu Beach, secluded retreat of the movie colony, is a lunch room built like a toadstool with counter and seats running around the stem, This excites little comment in California, being too nearly conventional. A beanery not far from the Hollywood Bowl is designed like an Egyptian sphinx. Another has a garbage pail for a sign. Long Beach boasts its Kopper Kettle, with steam pouring from its spout at night like smoke from the nos-triis of some fearsome medieval dragon, Eagle Rock has Fred's Keg, quick lunch built like a Jack-in-the: Beanstalk beer barrel.
Even staid old Pasadena is not immune to the eating-house whimsey. On the main road as you drive Colorado: Boulevard ' toward Anita race track is a restaurant in the shape of a shoe. The Mother Goose motif is achieved by means of a mechanical witch who careens recklessly around. the roof on civing broomstick. The old woman and her too-numerous offspring be seen peering cautiously from upper windows.
Odder still is a structure on exclusive Los Feliz boulevard between Pasadena and Hollywood, a steak and chop house [in the form of a Scotch tam o' shanter that resembles nothing so much as the stage-set for the psychiatrist's scene in "Johnnie Joh risen
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