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Originally Posted by KevinW
I can confirm the back of Musso & Franks was the entrance to a bar called The Writers Room because supposedly Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and others drank there. It went out of business in about 2015 and was replaced by a lesbian bar whose name now escapes me.
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This interesting L.A. Times article discusses the, at the time, new place, it's location, patrons etc.
The Writer’s Room Aims for Quiet Style Amid Hollywood Bar Scene
By Charlie Amter, SPECIAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
OCT. 14, 2011
Link:
HERE.
The article says it's in a space that "once belonged to Musso & Franks", so it's not technically in the back of it, per se.
This LAist article,
HERE, says the GOLDEN BOX opened in The Writers Room space in November of 2014.
So far, I have not come across any place mentioning that this is a lesbian bar, but with a name like Golden Box...?
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In an article about Musso & Franks 100th Anniversary there was this:
Musso & Frank became a favorite haunt of novelists like Faulkner and Fitzgerald. “The Screen Writers Guild was right across the street,” said present-day proprietor Mark Echeverria. “After their scripts were hacked apart by studio executives, they’d go to the Guild and complain…then cross the street to Musso’s and get drunk.”
I was trying to figure out where the "Screen Writers Guild", precursor to the Writers Guild of America, was actually located. So far, this is what I've found.
1.) The Screen Writers’ Guild was formed in the summer of 1920.
2.) By February 1921, the group rented a temporary office in the Markham Building at 6372 Hollywood Boulevard.
3.) When the SWG was formed in 1920, writers made it clear that they not only wanted to improve their professional prospects but also wanted a place of their own to socialize and network. In addition to being the first elected Vice President of the SWG, Mary O’Connor was an organizer of the social arm of the Guild called The Writers’ Club. She was the majority shareholder in a company called The Las Palmas and Sunset Corporation, the company under which the SWG transacted business. One of the first activities of this company was the purchase of a mansion at 6716 Sunset Boulevard, which was then converted into a clubhouse. (By 1923, the address of the building became 6700 Sunset Blvd.)
4.) 1928 photo of the clubhouse
Security Pacific National Bank Collection/LAPL
5.) This clubhouse would serve as a gathering place and SWG headquarters until 1933, when the newly revitalized union moved to 1655 N. Cherokee. (Near Melrose Ave.)
https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history