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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I thought I had posted about this old Marcell Inn sign but all my searches come up empty.
OLD FILE / Ebay?
Is anyone familiar with the Marcell Inn?
UPDATE:
I found just some information [and a couple postcards] on the Avenue of The Sky blog.
"The Marcell Inn - Altadena's Famous Speakeasy Club, 2900 Lincoln Avenue"
avenueofthesky blog.
The Marcell Inn opened in 1922 on Lincoln Avenue and was very popular with the Hollywood crowd, bootleg alcohol
being served along with fine French food, and all that was necessary to find the out-of-the-way location was to look
for the searchlight beacon mounted on a tower on the roof of the Inn.
A beacon.....at a speakeasy? 
avenueofthesky blog.
The address lands you HERE, in a clump of trees.
EAST in at the top
GSV
Do you think it's possible some remnants of the Old Marcell Inn are hidden within those trees?
Someone needs to get their butt over there pronto and snoop around.
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I’m finding the glory days of Marcell Inn were in Alta Dena... the Hollywood Filmograph was like US WEEKLY in the 30s, and they imply that the Marcell was one of the most aristocratic haunts in town.
link here because I can’t seem to embed an image using my phone:
https://imgur.com/gallery/wXtFF7T