[riichkay]

God help me but I can't resist peeking into '40's/'50's bars, something so damn noirish about these places...here's The Huntress, Livingston Dr. and 2nd St., Long Beach on Aug. 1, 1949.....courtesy of the Long Beach Fireman's collection at Cal. State Dominguez Hills....











The camera-shy daytime drinkers take refuge in a back corner, save for a happy Huntress in the foreground booth.


....detail...



.....note the magnifying screen in front of the television.