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California Crazy with Jim Heimann

Wed, Jan 04

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Los Angeles Breakfast Club

Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.

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California Crazy with Jim Heimann
California Crazy with Jim Heimann

Time & Location

Jan 04, 2023, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA

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About the event

ABOUT THE BOOK:  At the dawn of the automobile age, Americans’ predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of transportation. Starting in the 1920s, attention-grabbing buildings began to appear that would draw in passing drivers for snacks, provisions, souvenirs, or a quick meal. The architectural establishment of the day dismissed these roadside buildings as “monstrosities”.

Yet, they flourished, especially along America’s Sunbelt, and in particular, in Southern California, as proprietors indulged their creative impulses in the form of giant, eccentric constructions ― from owls, dolls, pigs, and ships, to coffee pots and fruit. Their symbolic intent was guileless, yet they were marginalized by history. But, over the past 40 years, California’s architectural anomalies have regained their integrity, and are now being celebrated in this freshly revised compendium of buildings, California Crazy.

Brimming with the best examples of this architectural genre, California…

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Tickets

  • Breakfast Tickets

    $25.00

    +$0.63 ticket service fee

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The Los Angeles Breakfast Club | P.O. Box 291831 | Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA | tel (323) 662-1191

The Los Angeles Breakfast Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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