The staff of The Pig Stand gather out front of the restaurant on the southeast corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St, Hollywood, 1931 |

The staff of The Pig Stand gather out front of the restaurant on the southeast corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St, Hollywood, 1931 Here we have the staff (and maybe some customers?) standing in front of a restaurant that in 1931 had just opened on the southeast corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St in Hollywood. The restaurant was called The Pig Stand, which is a name that I doubt would fly these days. But people did know what they were getting, as the sign says: “Barbecued Pig and Beef Sandwiches.” It represented direct competition with Carpenter’s which stood on the northeast corner until NBC Radio acquired the land and built their studios on that corner. Carpenter’s moved across the street to where The Pig Stand had been.