Back in 1938 some bright spark decided that what Santa Monica needed was a café in the shape of a frog, thus was born the Toed Inn. I love how there’s a scale standing to the right of the front door. For weighing yourself before you go in…or when you stagger out…?
I don’t have a date on the photo below but I’m guessing it’s an earlier, more basic version:
Wendyann says: “My grandfather Ben Rosenfeld bought it after it was damaged from the flood, moving it to Wilshire location. By the time I was a kid it was gone unfortunately. Think it was probably a code thing, it was made of chicken wire and plaster and insulated w/ newspaper. I was told it was spelt that way as a pun, it’s toes are pointed in.”
This was first located on Channel Road in Santa Monica and did not have the enclosure on it. The Toed Inn was damaged at the SM location in the great floods of 1938 and later moved to 12008 Wilshire and enclosed. This is a photo of it at the Wilshire location in Los Angeles and not the SM location.
Hello and thank you so much for stopping by and clarifying that for me. I’d received conflicting information about the Toed Inn – that it was in Santa Monica or on Wilshire. For a while I wondered if there were two of them, but it hadn’t occurred to me they’d moved from SM to Wilshire.
Back in 1938 some bright spark decided that what Santa Monica needed was a café in the shape of a frog, thus was born the Toed Inn. I love how there’s a scale standing to the right of the front door. For weighing yourself before you go in…or when you stagger out…?
This was first located on Channel Road in Santa Monica and did not have the enclosure on it. The Toed Inn was damaged at the SM location in the great floods of 1938 and later moved to 12008 Wilshire and enclosed. This is a photo of it at the Wilshire location in Los Angeles and not the SM location.
Hello and thank you so much for stopping by and clarifying that for me. I’d received conflicting information about the Toed Inn – that it was in Santa Monica or on Wilshire. For a while I wondered if there were two of them, but it hadn’t occurred to me they’d moved from SM to Wilshire.
Much appreciated!
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