Collins, Max Allan - Nathan Heller 10
“I had almost missed the place, and not just because I was a stranger in these exotic parts. The pair of inter-locking, wooden-shuttered stucco boxes on North McCadden Place in Hollywood might have been a nondescript apartment complex but for the knee-high bamboo fence and the tropical thicket through which the bamboo-pole entrance peeked.
No sign announced this as one of the most popular joints in town; and it was too early—three-thirty-something in the afternoon—to put out the restraining velv...et ropes. Of course, there would be no waiting for such regular customers as Rudy Vallee, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford (whose framed pictures, among many others, peered from a wall through hanging fronds).
Right now, however, the bar was unpopulated, except for a few stuffed parrots, fake monkeys, and a real bartender at his bamboo station. The “rain” on the false roof sprayed down the ceiling from garden hoses, and ran down the glass partitions of the “windows” to feed planters.MoreLess
No sign announced this as one of the most popular joints in town; and it was too early—three-thirty-something in the afternoon—to put out the restraining velv...et ropes. Of course, there would be no waiting for such regular customers as Rudy Vallee, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford (whose framed pictures, among many others, peered from a wall through hanging fronds).
Right now, however, the bar was unpopulated, except for a few stuffed parrots, fake monkeys, and a real bartender at his bamboo station. The “rain” on the false roof sprayed down the ceiling from garden hoses, and ran down the glass partitions of the “windows” to feed planters.MoreLess
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