[QUOTE=odinthor;8767850]On Poodle-Dog Restaurants, and/or their locations:
136 N. Spring was the well-known grocer Jevne's original location:
LA Times 5/12/1907, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library
A little about the building:
LA Herald 11/16/1904
There seems to have been a Poodle Dog eatery on E. 1st St., the cook of which had a canine adventure:
LA Times 8/28/1910, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library
The New Poodle Dog Restaurant opened just in time for New Year's 1911 . . .
^^^
Naming a restaurant "Poodle Dog" might have been part of the problem. The French don't eat dogs (some cultures do), but still... Even worse, if they named if after a horse. Some French & Belgians do eat equines.