The Wilshire Coffee Pot restaurant, 8601 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 1925

The Wilshire Coffee Pot restaurant, 8601 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 1925If you were gagging for coffee in L.A. in 1925, all you had to do was look out for the HUGE coffee pot of Ben-Hur brand coffee on the roof of the Wilshire Coffee Pot café at 8601 Wilshire Boulevard. It looks like it was a drive-in place too. That sign says “Stop & Sip – Ben Hur Drip – Eat in Car” which I guess is what the driver of that two-door runabout is doing.

The same view in April 2019:

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