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Old Posted Aug 5, 2020, 9:35 PM
Martin Pal Martin Pal is offline
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Century City Shopping Center...
...was apparently called Century Square Shopping Center at the start.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
.Here's the 2nd view. .also from 1968.

I'm interested in the vaguely. . .umm. .'polynesian' looking place (restaurant?) in the foreground on the left.

If you closely you can see the name is 'something' House.


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Here's a map of the shopping center:





As Lwize posted, the building in question in E_R's post was a restaurant, the Century House.





Here's looking at the restaurant, and the Broadway Dept. Store, from Santa Monica Blvd.





In the 1967 film "Caprice", Doris Day runs up the side steps to the shopping center...





...and sits down at an outside table in front of the Century House.







In "The Guide for the Married Man," directed by Gene Kelly, released within two weeks of "Caprice" in 1967, Walter Matthau and Robert Morse also have a conversation in front of this restaurant:





In 1972, some apes invaded the shopping center:





There was also a Clifton's Cafeteria in there.


All photos, except one and I don't recall which one, are from Vintage Los Angeles
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