The Players Restaurant
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Welcome to Los Angeles, 1926
RED JADE, my first Avery Shepard novel, takes place in and around Los Angeles in late 1926. Modern day time travelers might need to orient themselves if they were to visit that world, for the Los Angeles of “then” has some notable differences to “now.” Continue reading
Ye Bull Pen Inn
The Ye Bull Penn Inn restaurant had several homes but in 1926 it was here- at 633 S. Hope Street, where it had been serving fish, chicken and charbroiled steaks in a rustic, masculine setting since 1920. Continue reading
The Brown Derby Restaurant
The restaurant business was booming in mid-1920s Los Angeles, with a new cafeteria, coffee shop, café or chop house opening almost every week. In late 1926, businessman Herbert K. Somborn, ex-movie producer, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, threw his hat into the ring. Continue reading
The Victor Hugo Restaurant
In the increasingly fast-paced and chaotic world of the 1920s, The Victor Hugo restaurant in downtown Los Angeles was a refuge, free from modern distractions like jazz and sleek chrome and glass décor, harkening back to a simpler time- the French Revolution. Continue reading
J. H. Graham 