On a decrepit block of Broadway in downtown L.A., hidden behind a dilapidated, aging façade, lies the ghost of a palatial dining hall filled with towering redwoods and a gurgling stream. Known as Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria, this terraced wonderland recalls a different time, when cafeterias were classy and downtown living was tops.
The Brookdale outlasted attacks from notorious L.A. mobsters and decades of neighborhood decline, and is finally being restored to its original Depression-era grandeur.
(thanks Hunter)
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I had heard about that lit neon tubing that was sealed over for years. Imagine the reaction of whoever had been paying the electric bill for decades and wondering WHY IS IT SO HIGH?!
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