i have been looking for like forever for a photograph of the Mickey Cohen backed nightclub Slapsy Maxie's, named for fighter and sometime bit part actor, Maxie Rosenbloom.
the club was located at 5665 wilshire boulevard between the years of 1943 and 1950, the former site of the wilshire bowl nightclub.
Source: LAPL
The location of the nightclub is the North East Corner of Wilshire and masselin, the future site of van de kamps wilshire coffee shop
Source:
LAPL
anyway, without further adieu, i present to you slapsy maxie's,
1943
Source:
Southern California Architectural History
1947 after it had been remodeled
Source:
Southern California Architectural History
cartoon advertisement for slapsy maxie's
as an added bonus on the southern california architectural history site, (
http://so-cal-arch-history.com), i stumbled upon the only dead front on, full elevation photograph that i have ever seen of the john lautner designed googie coffee shop smack up next to schwab's on sunset at crescent heights.
Source:
Southern California Architectural History
all in all, a pretty good day!