Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 Cocktail Lounge 135 acres of Catalina to

135 acres of Catalina to the Catalina Island Conservancy

Rita Heyworth on the Terrace

This 1890 lunch menu offered a substantial feast

The place was famous for its crab cakes and the impressive art that hung on it's walls

Toed Inn, Los Angeles, California, 1953 Cocktail Lounge 135 acres of Catalina toThe Toed Inn was an example of LAs famous programmatic or mimetic architecture whimsical restaurants created to look like the food they served. You could walk into the stomach of this rather imposing frog and order frogs legs as well as hamburgers, steaks and seafood. Programmatic architecture blossomed during the 1920s when there was still plenty of space in LA and buildings costs were cheap. The buildings were designed to cater to the citys