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Originally Posted by Godzilla
Another NLA'er previously mentioned this 707 Heliotrope address as the location for a late '80s-early '90s eatery: Club Mambo. Evidently, the structure served as a Phelps & Terkel men's clothing store ('28-early '30s) and a liquor store (in '35), around the time when Chester's film was produced.
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The notion of repurposing a house or small business as a restaurant, of course, invites recollections of other such places mentioned on NLA, e.g., Butterfield's (8426 Sunset Blvd.) and possibly Father Yod's The Source (8301 Sunset Blvd.). From the early '80s - Cafe Mambo, (707 Heliotrope Drive) and Cha Cha Cha (656 Virgil Ave.) There were more, I recall at least two upscale French and/or Italian restaurants in the Valley. A cursory permit search suggests Butterfield's may have started out with a different street address, perhaps on De Longpre. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=41365
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Originally Posted by rick m
Now shuttered Café Bijou was originally home of Lou Costello on Ventura Blvd- Sherman Oaks
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Two other places that were originally houses:
Marix Tex Mex Cafe, 1108 N Flores St., West Hollywood. (Open.)
The 8795 Sunset Blvd. address, entrance is actually on Horn Ave., was a Spanish style residence which became the Café Gala in the 40's and 50's, then it was the Armenian restaurant Har-Omar through 1965. By 1969 it became Kavkaz, a Russian-Armenian restaurant, and then in 1982 it became Spago's until they relocated in 2001. It's been vacant since then, though some film companies have shot there. For quite awhile someone was trying to open a day care center--?--at that location, but
no one thought that was a good idea.