The Driving Thread

West to Ont?? Where were you Fontana?? Riverside?? )

 

No disrespect, I only drove through from Ont airport to Riverside.

 

I grew up living so close to

My brother lives 2 blocks from there, but probably has never been to Pann's.
Where I grew up, I could always get to LAX on surface streets -- Lincoln to Sepulveda and in. Then I moved to O.C. and try to travel out of John Wayne whenever possible. Very convenient. Trips to LAX are near-impossible, as is parking (90+ minutes to go 45 miles at 5:30 in the morning). I still have never been to Van Nuys, Burbank, Ontario or Long Beach. Some friends in O.C. find it easier to fly out of San Diego than LAX if John Wayne isn't a good option for where they're going.

 

Ate there in early November.

 

Remember when bacon and eggs were under $10?? Damn... of course prices won't deter me from going out on the weekends nowadays every now and then (I love the french toast/egg/sausage combos)

 

Pann's - along with Norm's and Johnnie's and a handful of others - is one of the last great examples of Googie's architecture.

I used to live around the corner from the original Googie's on Sunset way back when. The style these days is classified as 'retrofuturist.'

https://la.curbed.com/maps/googie-map-los-angeles

Make a day of it!

 

Hey Songbird, when are you going down PCH through Manhattan Beach, Hermosa and Redondo to Palos Verdes? Then around the corner past Long Beach and into Huntington, Seal, and Newport Beach? Man each of those beaches is awesome.

Or are you going North to Santa Clarita, Valencia then Antelope Valley?

 

Landed in the South Bay to look for Tarantino in Torrance.