Friday, April 12, 2013

Luncheonette, 1936


[“Sign outside luncheonette on Skid Row.” Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Los Angeles, 1936. From the Life Photo Archive. Click for a larger view.]

Bottom left: “MAKING OUR OWN PIES NOW.” Does that news allay fear, or stoke it?

Two more Eisenstaedt lunch photographs
Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone
Chock full o’Nuts lunch hour

comments: 2

Elaine Fine said...

Is there a Fleet Street around Skid Row?

Michael Leddy said...

Do I look like I need a shave?