This is Randy's Donuts, home of the World's Best Donuts, so they say! I was driving home down La Cienega the other day and was stopped at a red light long enough to snap this crumb-y shot.
The building was constructed in 1953 and is often cited as an example of programmatic or mimic architecture. I'm not sure if this is actually a programmatic building since it's really just the sign that's shaped like a donut as opposed to the structure incorporating the donut shape, like the Brown Derby restaurant below. Still pretty cool though. In that so ugly it's cool L.A. kind of way.
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| Photo: Chalmers Butterfield |
I didn't take the picture of the Brown Derby so it doesn't qualify for the
Saturday Snapshot meme hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books, but I just had to share the image with you. My first boyfriend, Eric Friend, took me on a date to the Brown Derby back in 1973 (I think!). I was twenty and incredibly excited and nervous to be eating at such a famous and expensive place. I remember it was dark inside and the rest is a blur ... I think because we had a fight and I've blocked it. The restaurant was torn down years ago and the top 'o the derby has been moved to the top of this mini-mall close to the Derby's original Wilshire Blvd location called Brown Derby Plaza Center.
I'm glad that I got to eat at the real deal
just like Lucille Ball.
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