Wednesday 15 March, 2006
Canter's
Canter's, originally uploaded to Flickr.
Just so you can have a bit more of a look. It's open 24 hours a day. The building use to be the Esquire theatre. The original Canter's was in Boyle Heights in the Thirties. Then it moved a few shops up from here in 1948. And now it is here. The waiters are hot young men and older very large women. The clientele is writers, Hollywood, old Jewish people and young groovers. The ceiling is made up of a repeated photo of autumn leaves which verges on the pyschedelic. There are booths. There is lox. There is coffee. There is piles of pastries and soups and salads and an excellent fruit cup. I have decided that the heroine of my next novel, Anna, hangs out there.
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