[Snix]

UPDATED: I spoke with Tiny's son Biff, who tells me the googie-style building was a dinner house NEXT TO the Tiny Naylor's at Sunset and La Brea. He identified it on this aerial.


B restaurant
C trash room and storage
D small office
E public restrooms



Here we go! Maybe this is why nobody has heard of this place. Did this restaurant only last one year?! Looks like it was sold to Stephen Crane to become a Kon Tiki restaurant in 1959.

Los Angeles Evening Citizen News 10/24/59

Is this "House of Naylor" at "Wilshire and La Cienega" a different angle of the same building? The dates don't add up.

Los Angeles Evening Citizen News 11.14.57
What a stellar architectural lineup. My all-time favorites: Eldon Davis, Helen Fong, and Hans and Betsy Werner. The dream team behind Pann's.
Helen Fong was recently profiled by Smithsonian magazine: https://savingplaces.org/stories/thr...e#.YEO6EhNKiZ0

I've confirmed the address of "House of Naylor" as 38 N. La Cienega, which was Benihana from 1971-2015.

GSV

In 1965 it was San Francisco Joe's. Neither it or the tiki joint lasted very long.

Los Angeles Evening Citizen News 7.30.65

Originally Posted by Snix

I was unfamiliar with the Eddie Arcaro restaurant on Melrose, but I've long been curious about his collaborations with Tiny Naylor - and specifically about the incredible googie style restaurant below photographed by Julius Shulman. Shulman dates these 1954 and credits them to architects Jones and Emmons, but according to the clippings, the Arcaro/Naylor restaurant(s) opened in 1958 and were designed by Armet & Davis. This looks much more of an A&D design than a Jones and Emmons design. It does NOT appear to be one of these:

1. "House of Naylor" somewhere on La Cienega

2. Tiny Naylor's coffee shop 14 N. La Cienega, Beverly Hills

3. "Eddie Arcaro's Winner's Circle" 8620 S. Western Ave.
This is described as the second collaboration with an interior "styled after an English tavern." Clearly not the one in the Shulman photos.



Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)


Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)


Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)


Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)


Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)


Los Angeles Times 5/26/58


Los Angeles Times 6/29/58


Los Angeles Times 11/23/58

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...los-1982215299
"House of Naylor" on Tiny Naylor's menu from Worthpoint

Tiny Naylor's at 14 N. La Cienega (at Wilshire) in Beverly Hills

Photo; Armet & Davis, via Los Angeles magazine
https://www.lamag.com/askchris/belov...er-demolished/

Getty Images: Eddie Arcaro Wearing Chef Hat While Cooking
(Original Caption) Jockey Eddie Arcaro trades in his riding silks for a chef's hat and prepares a steak in the new restaurant he has an interest in here. Arcaro has entered into a partnership with the famous restaurateur Tiny Naylor, and the pair announced that they will open a Winner's Circle Room in the House of Naylor on La Cienga's restaurant row.
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/e...t=best#license

House of Naylor sign by David Sutton at MPTV
https://www.mptvimages.com/images/15...8-david-sutton