This photo came to me spiderwebbed with a lot of ghostly lines so I’ve cleaned it up a bit so that we can more clearly see the appeal of this place. Le Roy’s Sandwich Stand stood at the corner of Crenshaw and Jefferson Blvds in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles when this photo was taken in 1939. It looks like it was a perfect little drive-in place and I wish the photographer stood a little further back so that we could see the lit-up tower that reached into the night sky.
** UPDATE ** – Leonard W on Facebook found this daytime shot:
Nice touch to have the neon LeRoys surrounding the clock inside. I can visualize this place in something like electric blue to stand out. But this way it gives a real noirish feel with that lone car and Mr. suit & tie sitting back at the counter end. Like something bad and entangling is coming down the road soon. Hold your fedoras!
But what the heck is a “chicken fountain salad”? Do I REALLY want to know?
Well, now I’m picturing a fountain spurting out chickens instead of water, and each one of them are holding salad servers.