I was in the old neighborhood on Sunday, and stopped to take a photo of the old Flying Saucer site, on the northeast corner of Wilshire and Cochran.
From the 50s into at least the 80s, the Flying Saucer restaurant was an institution on the Miracle Mile, at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Cochran - serving barbecue spare ribs, chicken, and burgers at reasonable prices. The spare ribs, with cole slaw and fries, were the preferred local takeout for my family when I was growing up, two blocks away - and as Andrea Graham (a fellow devotee) has noted, the place never changed, never remodeled. That cole slaw - tangy, no mayo - was the best I've ever had.
It was torn down in the 1990s, replaced by a Staples office supply store, which paid homage to the original site by maintaining the Flying Saucer motif (pictured here).
Photo August 5, 2007 (by klk).
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- Kent Kanouse
- Simi Valley, California