Simon’s drive-in restaurant at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax
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How about this dazzling shot:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/cars-park-outside-simons-drivein-coffee-shop-in-los-angelescalifornia-picture-id509321510
Brief info on the Simon’s Drive-In chain:
https://twentiethcenturyarchitectureandinteriors.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/simons-drive-in-los-angeles-california-architect-wayne-mcallister/
Thanks, Martin.
Jean
Note: The second link above has apparently been deleted from WordPress. In searching SoCal images, one comes across a 1920’s era drive-up type refreshment stand having the basic circular shape with a wild mushrooms theme for the design, the roof itself being a mushroom cap. The generally accepted notion that the octagonal pig stand shape evolved into the round windowed drive-in becoms rather questionable with this evidence. What is more significant is the use of a monolithic slab jetting out of the roof to hold the name of the establishment where it could be seen by motorists from a distance, and of course the enhancement if it all with the colorful lighting. Now Bob’s would move their signage onto a billboard like structure near the front entrance, and Stan’s would take it further out to the lot borders near the sidewalks. In some cases, like the La Fayette Park location on Wilshire (formerly one of the Simon’s drive-ins), “legs” and her service tray were up on a single pole. Interesting in that McDonald’s would go on to use a tall flag pole out near the end of the front walk to signal auto navigators from far away (as much as a mile due to the towering heighth and the massive size if the American flag they ran up daily). Now you’re lucky if you can see the vehicle ahead of the rolling bread box with the blacked-out windows which obstructs the view of everything in front of your vehicle. [Must be why they need more cameras on these personal Helms’ delivery wagons then a major studio could muster for a film extravaganza.]