Blue Plate Special
This week's LA Weekly contains a
review of Pann's, one of the few genuine midcentury diners left in that area. Looks like they're still serving great food, but it's disappointing to read that they retrofitted the place with contrived "nifty '50s" decor. Damn. Denny's has done the same thing in recent years - a shame, since a
Happy Days look doesn't jibe with the fantastic early '60s Googie architecture on the older Denny's. I suppose the hungry Joes and Tiffanys of America can relate better to a cheesy approximation of nostalgia than the real thing. Sad, man, sad.
PS On an LA trip a few years back, we drove across town (in horrible traffic) for dinner at Encounter at LAX. At one point, we actually passed Pann's and marvelled at its neon sign. The Encounter experience was okay, but in retrospect I wish we'd stopped at Pann's instead.
Posted by mhinrichs at August 25, 2005 06:25 PM
