This is an exciting find, for me at least. In my novel, “The Garden on Sunset”, there is a scene set at a place called the Zulu Hut which stood at 11100 Ventura Blvd in what is now known as Studio City. It was near Universal Studios in what was then a fairly rural area. When I came across the Zulu Hut in my research, I read—wide-eyed—that black-faced waiters (!) served cornpones (cornmeal bread usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle), squab and fried chicken in thatched huts, I knew I had a set a scene there. But try as I might, googling my fingers to nubs, I could *not* find a photo of it . . . until now. And it’s every bit as kitsch as I pictured.
It’s hard to 100% sure because every now and then the city changes street numbering, but as far as I can figure it, yes, it was at or at least near where Fox and Hounds is now.
Looked on Google maps, and The Fox and Hounds pub now seems to stand on that very same site.
It’s hard to 100% sure because every now and then the city changes street numbering, but as far as I can figure it, yes, it was at or at least near where Fox and Hounds is now.