Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Pal
In that long ago summer of 1952...the Red Car Trolley Line ran the length of Hollywood Boulevard,
and near the corner of Highland was the all-night Hollywood Theater. A few doors away, you could
get breakfast any time of the day at Coffee Dan's or Aldo's.
-- Robert Vaughn (talking about his first months in Hollywood) in A Fortunate Life.
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I don't recall hearing about Aldo's previously.
There were two locations for Aldo's: 6413 and 6721 Hollywood Blvd.
The 6721 address is the one that Robert Vaughn referred to. Haven't found
any period photographs of it. It's east of the Pickwick Bookstore location, across
from the Egyptian Theatre. That address is currently a Sushi restaurant.
The 6413 address is between Wilcox and Cahuenga, in a building to the right of the
Warner Bros. Theatre building. At some point before Aldo's it was the Weiss Viennese Cafe.
In a book, Cher revealed that she met Sonny Bono at Aldo's (in 1962) and mentioned it was
next to KFWB Radio station.
This 1949 image of the Warner Bros. Theatre location shows this building to the right of it in an aerial.

Hollywood Historic Photos
This 1972 image shows the KFWB location and the address for KFWB as 6419.
Aldo's could be one of the other locations in this same building or possibly just to the
right in the next building. I do not know how long Aldo's was in business, though.

Hollywood Photographs
I do know that currently there is no building there:

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