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"The trolley in the back is the actually the oldest Pacific Red Car in existence where Mickey Cohen used to run a bookie operation" (Vintage Los Angeles blog) |
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Interior of Pacific Electric car 913 at 7156 Santa Monica Boulevard. |
"It was a dark day in December 2016, when Formosa Café closed down after decades. The ultimate shutter followed a brief run under new operators, who undertook an ill-fated renovation which tore the vintage soul out of the place, leaving a behind a sad gray shell and bartenders who couldn’t mix a drink. When 1933 Group took over the property, they were committed to not repeating that mistake.
"Bobby Green, a co-owner of 1933, and his crack team of fabricators brought back the missing mahogany interior of the 1902 Pacific Electric streetcar which was converted to a luncheon counter and placed on the site in 1925. That trolley car luncheonette, The Red Post Cafe, would later be expanded to become Formosa."
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