Roberts Brothers, Los Angeles 1930s Coasters hotel restaurants were considered fashionable

hotel restaurants were considered fashionable and exclusive places for the wealthy and powerful to eat and were often designed

writers and musicians and anyone who wanted to sample the avant-garde lifestyle ate and drank here

but a lucky few were in first or second class and they passed the journey in elaborate accommodations and were treated like royalty

is a nickel and a man can sit in one of the one-armed tray-type chairs for hours

The Liberty Café was said to be one of the best places to eat on Route 66

Roberts Brothers, Los Angeles 1930s Coasters hotel restaurants were considered fashionableFrom History. com: "A Dallas entrepreneur named Jessie G. Kirby built the first Pig Stand along the Dallas Fort Worth Highway in October 1921. It was a roadside barbecue restaurant unlike any other: Its patrons could drive up, eat and leave, all without budging from their automobiles. (People with cars are so lazy, Kirby explained, they dont want to get out of them.) Kirby lured these car attached customers with great fanfare and spectacle. When a