Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Long days at sea were

Long days at sea were obviously the excuse to have parties in the evenings

The restaurant opened for breakfast and served meals till late

the ship re-entered civilian service

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

 Vincent’s son Vincent Jnr continued the tradition

Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Long days at sea wereThe Toed Inn was an example of LAs famous programmatic or mimetic architecture whimsical restaurants created to look like the food they served. You could walk into the stomach of this rather imposing frog and order frogs legs as well as hamburgers, steaks and seafood. Programmatic architecture blossomed during the 1920s when there was still plenty of space in LA and buildings costs were cheap. The buildings were designed to cater to the citys