I only used the word "incestuous" above to be noirishly provocative. This isn't really noirish at all, but I was surprised to learn that the mother of the Boos brothers was a Schaber, of the Schaber's chain of cafeterias.... Per the LAPL, "When Horace Boos died in 1926, the surviving brothers sold the seven cafeterias for a record $7 million to the Childs Corp. In turn, Childs sold two of the cafeterias to Clifford E. Clinton, who launched the Clifton's chain. Eventually, Henry Boos bought back two, one on Hill Street and the other in Avalon on Catalina Island." The Boos location at 648 S. Broadway became Clifton's Brookdale (the '60s facade of which, as we've seen, is now being removed: see
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4945 and
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4946).
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326 S Broadway, labeled 1930s...not sure how this fits into the Boos timeline. ...Anyway, there's a McDonald's on the
spot today.
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620 S Broadway, then...
and now...
Google Street View
The Boos Catalina branch...
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