Harvey House was a chain railroad meal stops along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway line. The last stop on that line was Los Angeles and at Union Station, and as we can see from this 1939 photo, the Harvey House restaurant was really something. Although empty right now, the restaurant is still there with its deco intact, and has been used as a location for a number of movies, most memorably in “The Way We Were.” There are lots of great photos of it on this “LA PLACES” blog post: http://bit.ly/1yDmQlj
UPDATE – JANUARY 2020
I passed through Union Station the other day so I stopped by the old Harvey House to see the gastropub brewery that currently occupies that space:
Harvey House was a chain railroad meal stops along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway line. The last stop on that line was Los Angeles and at Union Station, and as we can see from this 1939 photo, the Harvey House restaurant was really something. Although empty right now, the restaurant is still there with its deco intact, and has been used as a location for a number of movies, most memorably in “The Way We Were.” There are lots of great photos of it on this “LA PLACES” blog post: http://bit.ly/1yDmQlj
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