Café La Maze – 9039 Sunset Boulevard.Opened 1938 by Marcel Lamaze. Was also a popular restaurant where once a week Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy and Pat O’Brien dined together. (1/80) (40/161, 179)
It was later Sherry’s, where Mickey Cohen was ambushed. (Was also briefly the LA version of Dave’s Blue Room — it was there that Shirley Temple met Mickey Cohen). Much later it was Gazzarri’s and then was red tagged in Northridge, demolished and the Key Club. Jon Ponder: LaMaze is a very interesting fella, and a major player on the Strip. He ran the Clover Club, Club Seville (the club in the building before it became Ciro’s). He was the maitre d’ at the Earl Carroll Theatre before Herman Hover stole him away to run Ciro’s. That relationship ended after the fire when LaMaze went back to the Earl Carroll. Also opened in Mexico later, I think. He lived on the Strip in the Hacienda Park Apts. next door to Ciro’s. PIazza del Sol now.
See also: http://www.cafelamaze.com/history.html As listed in the ‘Los Angeles Guide, 1941’ : “Café LaMaze 9039 Sunset Boulevard. Dinner. Dancing to name bands. Special entertainment. Separate bar.”
Love the story. Very well written and informative. There is a cafe la maze still in national city still open from that long forgotten Hollywood era. That was when the stars would go to Tijuana.
This post of yours brought me to your website, and it of major interest to me. Great photo of Café La Maze! … There would be at three Café La Maze restaurants.
Decades back I announced that I would write a book on Errol Flynn. Shortly after I began a long letter correspondence with Olivia de Havilland, and this changed my book from Flynn to ERROL & OLIVIA. I was under contract to complete two Indian wars books. … During free time I began my manuscript about them but it didn’t become my primary manuscript until 2020 (yes, I’m slow). … I am not denying or criticizing anything you have in your terrific post. …
However, I have primary source material of Olivia de Havilland eating at Café La Maze on Sunset Boulevard in 1937.
Love the story. Very well written and informative. There is a cafe la maze still in national city still open from that long forgotten Hollywood era. That was when the stars would go to Tijuana.
This post of yours brought me to your website, and it of major interest to me. Great photo of Café La Maze! … There would be at three Café La Maze restaurants.
Decades back I announced that I would write a book on Errol Flynn. Shortly after I began a long letter correspondence with Olivia de Havilland, and this changed my book from Flynn to ERROL & OLIVIA. I was under contract to complete two Indian wars books. … During free time I began my manuscript about them but it didn’t become my primary manuscript until 2020 (yes, I’m slow). … I am not denying or criticizing anything you have in your terrific post. …
However, I have primary source material of Olivia de Havilland eating at Café La Maze on Sunset Boulevard in 1937.