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Thanks
Paul K. Was the food good?
I never knew pressed duck was served in cubes! -that doesn't sound very appetizing (reminds me of the chicken in
Banquet pot pies
)
The two Jerry's Joynt photographs you reposted are two of my favorites on the thread. It was good to see them again.
Surprisingly, I just found two photographs pertaining to Jerry's Joynt that I believe are new to NLA.
The first one is poorly composed with the upper half of the photo devoted to a cloudless sky...
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=56917
but if you look in the lower left corner you see Jerry's Joint and a banner advertising an appearance by Anna May Wong to sign photographs.
here's an enlargement
detail
The trouble is...I can't quite figure what part of Jerry's Joynt we're seeing.
Are we looking over the roofs toward Ferguson Alley- (and that's the back and the side of Jerry's Joynt facing the alley?) -if so, strange place for a clock.
& does the wood cornice, painted white with the three lights, belong to Jerry's Joynt or a building just beyond it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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In the second photograph we finally get a glimpse inside the
joint joynt.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031003.jpg
Group portrait at Jerry's Joynt, located at 500 N. Los Angeles, Chinatown; identified is actor Vince Barnett (seated right of center, unshaven).
The sign on the wall reads "Dan Tobey's Silver Jubilee and Barbecue, Jerry's Joynt, Chinatown."
I don't know who Vince Barnett is (
or Dan Tobey!)
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There is a Vincent Barnett who registered for the draft in WWII who is listed as being employed by a "radio program". He was born in Kansas in 1891 which would make him 58 in 1949, which , by the clothes in the picture, would seem to be around the time that the picture was taken. If he was in radio then he probably would not be someone recognizable in a picture. Maybe.....