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April 25, 2009
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Dagens baghave: |
Backyard of the Day: |
Walker's Café, San
Pedro, Los Angeles County, California
Walker's Café is located
at 700 West Paseo Del Mar in San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California
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Vi satte kurs mod San Pedro til
morgen, og det første stop var en frokostpause på
Walker's Café.
Caféen blev åbnet
omkring 1944 af Bessie Logan og hendes mand Ray Walker. De
købte bygningen, som dengang var en lille fortovsbar, byggede
lidt til, og åbnede dørene til den nye café.
Ifølge Bessie var stedet dengang så snusket, at
kakkelakkerne stak af med både madrester og
sølvtøj, og af og til med en kunde....
Ray lavede mad og Bessie
serverede, og da Ray Walker døde i 1958, drev Bessie
caféen videre selv. Bessie døde i 1996, og i dag drives
restauranten af Ray og Bessies søn. |
We headed for San Pedro this
morning, and the first stop was a lunch break at Walker's Café.
The café was opened about
1944 by Bessie Logan and her husband Ray Walker. They bought the
building, then a small walk-up bar, added on a bit, and opened the
doors to their new café. According to Bessie the place back
then was so dumpy that roaches would walk off with food, silverware,
and the occasional customer....
Ray did the cooking and Bessie
waitressed, and when Ray Walker died in 1958, Bessie ran the
café herself. Bessie died in 1996, and today the restaurant is
run by Ray and Bessie's son. |
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Walker's Café er ikke
akkurat et arkitekturisk vidunder, men burgerne er lækre og
betjeningen hjertelig og familiær. Og så har caféen
stadig en autentisk, lidt slidt atmosfære, der har gjort, at
den er dukket op i adskillige film, blandt andre "Chinatown"
med Jack Nicholson og "Whatever Happened to the Black Dahlia." |
Walker's Café is not
exactly an architectural marvel, but the burgers are delicious and
the service is chatty friendly. And the café still has an
authentic, somewhat delapidated atmosphere, causing it to appear in
several movies, among them "Chinatown" with Jack Nicholson
and "Whatever Happened to the Black Dahlia." |
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