Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End He and his son Antone

He and his son Antone opened a fish store in Jefferson Street and then established the restaurant on the historic Wharf

eateries were built in the shape of kettles

It's extraordinary that this beautiful image of a little boy chef feeding the moon a piece of steak is over a hundred years old

The café had a concession stall where military men could have their pictures taken with ‘hula girls’ to send home to their families as souvenirs

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End He and his son AntoneThe Toed Inn was an example of LAs famous programmatic or mimetic architecture whimsical restaurants created to look like the food they served. You could walk into the stomach of this rather imposing frog and order frogs legs as well as hamburgers, steaks and seafood. Programmatic architecture blossomed during the 1920s when there was still plenty of space in LA and buildings costs were cheap. The buildings were designed to cater to the citys