Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Bergdorf Goodman

Bergdorf Goodman

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

eateries were built in the shape of kettles

There's so much to love about this wonderful old menu from 1946

He and his son Antone opened a fish store in Jefferson Street and then established the restaurant on the historic Wharf

Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 West End Bergdorf GoodmanThe 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