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