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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Comparis was the Italian restaurant at 8600 S Sepulveda. (Compari's?) Seems that it's still in existence, but a smaller place specializing in pizza. Maybe it was a failed attempt at going big... No pics found of the corner in that incarnation either.
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It's hard to find pictures of Westchester. It's changed some in recent years, but for a long time, not much ever happened here. That's how it got the nickname Deadchester. It's a hotbed of lethargy.
This zoomed-in portion of a 1963 LAX aerial view shows the Westchester Business District; Lincoln and Sepulveda is the major intersection at lower left, and Manchester and Sepulveda is at upper right. I've marked with an arrow the rectangular building on the NE corner of Manchester/Sepulveda that I recall was an italian restaurant. Its address would have been 85XX, it was painted a dark red, and possibly called Tony's. It's now the site of a 12-story medical/office building (where I had a 90-minute root canal last year).
LMU Digital Collections --
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/cd...d/1409/rec/203
As I mentioned in another post, the other downtown Westchester theater was the 1,300-seat Paradise at the SE corner of Sepulveda Blvd. and Will Rogers St. (now Westchester Parkway), which opened in 1950. I think it closed before the Loyola, but I can't say for sure. It's marked with an X in the picture above.
LAPL --
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036957.jpg
Copy of Paradise news article @ Cinematour.com --
http://www.cinematour.com/documents/...5-paradise.pdf
And the Paradise Building today:
California Pete on flickr --
http://www.flickr.com/photos/califor...n/photostream/
P.S. Thanks,
ER, for the
Quadrophenia ad.
I wish I could say it brought back more memories of that night at the Loyola Theater, but my recollection of many events from that era was hazy to begin with and has not improved since.