Idle Hour: Eat Inside a Giant Hidden Dog at California’s Last Barrel Restaurant

2026-04-15 22:41

From blog Atomic Redhead

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Idle Hour: Eat Inside a Giant Hidden Dog at California’s Last Barrel Restaurant

As many of you know I’m an architecture junkie, and one of my favorite forms of architecture is programmatic, or fondly known as “California Crazy” that is to say, buildings that are constructed to look like something, which California was wildly known for. Sadly, there are very few examples left, but at Idle Hour you get two for the price of one! Well, sort of. Just off Vineland, you’ll spy a rotund cedar barrel, and it’s just the perfect place to wet your whistle. Idle Hour opened in 1941, the product of a Universal Studios tech who commissioned George F. Fordyk to build it. While drinks were served on the first floor,...

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