Vintage photos of L.A. restaurants that were shaped like the food they served

With L.A.’s iconic Eddie Blake’s Tail o’ the Pup hot dog stand set to reopen, LAist posted a brief photographic history of the city’s fantastic history of “‘programmatic architecture,’ buildings designed to look like food, animals or other items.”

“LA’s Awesome History Of Weird, Food-Shaped Restaurants” (via NextDraft)

images: Los Angeles Public Library Collection