| VR/GM/82 | Menu from Plantation Pies, Reseda, CA. | | |
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Description:Plantation Pies large pie menu. The bakery and family restaurant was located at 19415 Victory Blvd., Reseda. In 1960, this location was Valley Sales discount store. Plantation Pies (and Coffee Shop) opened in February 1965. By September of that year, it was Plantation Restaurant-Delicatessen, with a new phone number and no mention of “pies to-go” in the ad. By October, it was “under new management.” By 1968, it was Spic’n Span Delicatessen and Restaurant. In 1973, it was the Just Delicious Restaurant. In 1976, it was Sew and Save, a discount fabric store. [show more]
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| VR/GM/1 | Menu from Pucci's, Encino, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Pucci’s, a continental restaurant located at 16065 Ventura Blvd., Encino. The Pucci brothers, Leonard and Michael (Len and Mike) opened the Encino Pucci’s location in 1958, after running a successful restaurant called Pucci’s Silver Fox on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks for several years. Pucci’s was destroyed by an explosion and fire in early July 1967 and the location was replaced by an office building. [show more]
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| VR/M/13 | Menu from Pump Room Restaurant, Studio City, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Pump Room Restaurant, located at 13003 Ventura Blvd., Studio City.
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| VR/M/8 | Menu from Ram’s Horn Restaurant, Encino, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Ram’s Horn Restaurant, located at 16705 Ventura Blvd., Encino. Includes two matchbooks, two packets of cane sugar, and a napkin from the restaurant stapled inside. The napkin is dated April 12, 1960.
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| VR/M/16 | Menu from Raya Penoff’s Moskva Cliff Restaurant, Studio City, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Raya Penoff’s Moskva Cliff Restaurant, a gourmet Russian-American restaurant located at 12616 Ventura Blvd., Studio City.
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| VR/M/10 | Menu from Red Apple Restaurant, Canoga Park, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Red Apple Restaurant, located at 21601 Sherman Way, Canoga Park. Includes lunch specials stapled inside.
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| VR/GM/20 | Menu from Roundrobin Lounge, Glendale, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Roundrobin Lounge, an old-school diner located at 617 South Brand Blvd., Glendale. The restaurant seems to have moved location to 2875 Glendale Blvd. in 1969.
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| VR/GM/28 | Menu from Sann’s Family Restaurant, Sepulveda, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Sann’s Family Restaurant, a family restaurant located at 8514 Sepulveda Blvd., Sepulveda (North Hills). Plastic wood-grain print binder with sun logo. “In Los Angeles Visit Our Location: Teddy’s Coffee Shop, 3401 West Slauson Ave., Corner of Slauson and Crenshaw.” According to newspaper ads, Sann’s opened in 1947 at the same location. [show more]
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| VR/M/11 | Menu from Silver Platter, Tarzana, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Silver Platter, a continental and American cuisine restaurant located at 18373 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana.
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| VR/M/21 | Menu from Skytrails Restaurant, Van Nuys, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Skytrails Restaurant, located at 16435 Sherman Way, Van Nuys (Van Nuys Airport).
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| VR/GM/71 | Menu from Solley’s Delicatessen Restaurant, Woodland Hills, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Solley’s Delicatessen Restaurant, a Jewish Deli located at 21357 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills. There was a second location in Sherman Oaks. Solley’s was opened by Sol Zide in around 1973. In 1996, it was purchased by the Jerry’s Famous Deli chain, based in Studio City. The Woodland Hills location converted to a Jerry’s, and the Sherman Oaks location closed in May 2015. [show more]
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| VR/GM/22 | Menu from Starlite and Kester Place, North Hollywood and Van Nuys, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Starlite and Kester Place, a family restaurant located at 7727 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood / Kester Family Restaurant, 14860 Vanowen (at Kester), Van Nuys. Starlite Lanes bowling alley opened in August 1958, and the Starlite restaurant/coffee shop shared the same address. Kester Place opened in circa 1967. This combo menu is the earliest, based on the prices. The menu is a dark orange color, with a sans serif font on cover. Contains three chef’s specials inserts on gold paper. [show more]
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| VR/GM/23 | Menu from Starlite and Kester Place, North Hollywood and Van Nuys, CA. | | |
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Description: Menu from Starlite and Kester Place, a family restaurant located at 7727 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood / Kester Family Restaurant, 14860 Vanowen (at Kester), Van Nuys. Starlite Lanes bowling alley opened in August 1958, and the Starlite restaurant/coffee shop shared the same address. Kester Place opened in circa 1967. This combo menu is later than VR/GM/22, based on the prices. The menu is a medium orange color, with a serif font on cover. Chef’s specials inserts are missing. [show more]
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| VR/GM/24 | Menu from Starlite, North Hollywood, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from Starlite, a family restaurant located at 7727 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. Starlite Lanes bowling alley opened in August 1958, and the Starlite restaurant/coffee shop shared the same address. This is not a combo menu, but says “When in Van Nuys… Visit Kester Place.” The menu is a golden yellow color and the chef’s specials inserts are missing. [show more]
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| VR/GM/47 | Menu from T-Bow’s Mandarin Diner, Canoga Park, CA. | | |
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Description:Menu from T-Bow’s Mandarin Diner, a Chinese restaurant located at 21929 South Saticoy St., Canoga Park (Topanga Canyon and Saticoy). This location was owned in the 1960s by Roy Thibault (pronounced T-bow), who operated a coffee shop (T-Bow’s Coffee Shop / T-Bow’s Tumpty Humpty Dumpty House of Eggs). It became a Chinese restaurant in circa 1971, and kept the T-Bow’s moniker. [show more]
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