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Originally Posted by Noircitydame
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French food on on Wilshire?
Most of us are aware that the
Toed Inn was in
Santa Monica Canyon and that it was hit by the 1938 deluge. I believe there was at least one post of the storm damaged/muddy area around The Toed, but can't locate it presently. One thing I had forgotten was that the amphibian structure was relocated to
12008 Wilshire Blvd. A 1939-permit bears this out: "RELOCATED FROM LOT 156-155 TR 1719, 128 W CHANNEL ROAD TO LOT 10-1
1 TR 8038, 12008 WILSHIRE BLVD." It appears that there was more relocating and additions in '44 and new construction in '53, so it is currently unclear whether the structure was subsumed, eaten or moved elsewhere. There is no trace of it now, nor does there seem to have been any CD listings under Toed or Toad
Although NLA has covered many, if not most, of LA's
mimetic architecture, there is a welcome compilation with original locations here:
http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=286
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Not in Santa Monica Canyon
Submitted by beachy on Thu, 01/15/2015 - 9:16am.
This is the Toed Inn after it was moved out of Santa Monica Canyon -- it was in the great flood of 1938 and moved after that up toward Los Angeles proper on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood. When they moved it, that's when it was enclosed. Here's a photo of how it looked when it was in its original location in the canyon; it was an open side stand.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/10024#comment-176580
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Was Santa Monica was a stand in for Tennessee? There is a circa 1960 Kazan -Monty Cliff film, entitled "
The Wild River." Although the film is in color, if memory serves me correctly, there are many black and white moving images of floods presented within the first two minutes of the film. Among them is a shot of the Toed Inn.
First two-three minutes.