There’s an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s
series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in
which he takes Judd Apatow to a diner in LA. Apatow eats a burger, thereby slightly subverting the title of the
show, and afterwards he says he's glad he doesn't know how they got to the
diner because he'd be back there all the time eating burgers, and this would in
some way be a bad thing.
Well, of course, we all understand that this is just showbiz chat and flutter, but the fact is they’re at
the 101 Coffee Shop on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, and EVERYBODY in LA knows
it and knows how to get there. It's right by the 101 Freeway!
And the real reason they know the place is
because it appears passim in the
movie Swingers. It’s the place where Vince Vaughan does a
lot of sitting and talking and acting and, you know, being Vince Vaughan. It's been refurbished and hispered-up since then, however. It also appears in Entourage apparently.
More than that, it’s a
place that I go to fairly often for lunch, though never for dinner. And I’ve never had the burger, but the French dip sandwich is perfectly good.
But for me the best
thing about the place are the pictures on the wall; anonymous vernacular
snapshots bought at some garage sale, I imagine.
I wonder if the people
in the pictures know about it. I assume
not. I wonder if some of them are even
still alive.
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