![]() ![]() Unfortunately, it may have been too late. On October 25, 2021, the city of Los Angeles issued a stop work order on the building, according to Alison Martino, a local historian who runs Vintage Los Angeles and is often the first to know about historic happenings in L.A. After it closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new tenant came in to revamp the space… but radically altered both the exterior and interior of the space, which had been designed like an old English pub. How many restaurants can you say that about? It expanded into a major West Coast chain that eventually died out, leaving only one outpost, at 6714 Hollywood Blvd. For local historians and preservationists, it was a betrayal.Īfter opening in 1927, the Hollywood outpost of the playful Pig 'N' Whistle became equally popular with Golden Age movie stars and tourist families from Omaha. "They took down the two little pigs playing the whistles that were on the exterior and they put in skulls."įor some Angelenos, that may seem like a minor detail. "I looked inside, and it's hard to see just through windows, but it looked like they were gutting it," she says of the Pig 'N' Whistle. Historian April Clemmer, leader of the popular Old Hollywood Walking Tour, first noticed the changes in late July, 2021. ![]()
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