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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I don't believe we've seen this 'greasy spoon' on NLA.
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Mama’s Hot Dog Stand, 727 W. 5th Street, 1968
4th Street viaduct in the background, Mama's is nearly on the corner of 5th and Flower (which is just out-of-frame to the left). The Sunkist Building is to the
right and those retaining walls on the hill belong to the now absent Wentworth (formerly the Rubaiyat,427 Hope). The last CEO of Sunkist to retire from this building reportedly visited
Mama's every morning before going upstairs to his office.
Huntington Digital Library/Palmer Conner Collection
Looking east on 5th Street from just west of Flower Street, 1966
The Sunkist Building, 707 West 5th Street, east of the Flower Street intersection. In the background is seen the Edison Building, 601 West 5th Street, and
Pacific Telephone’s communications center with its microwave tower at 420 South Grand Avenue. Up on Hope Street we can still make out the brick L.A Gas
& Electric building, the white, art-deco Edison annex and, maybe most interesting of all the distinctive cube-shape of the Sons of the Revolution Library has
come through, now pretty much all alone on the west side of the street. Deep shade on the street being thrown by the Architects Building here on the right
edge, located on the SE corner of 5th and Figueroa Streets.
Huntington Digital Library/Palmer Conner Collection of Color Slides of Los Angeles, 1950 - 1970