ANTEBELLUM BLOG: SNOW WHITE CAFE

10/9/12

SNOW WHITE CAFE

(rick castro tries to coerce snow white "off the wagon")

The Snow White Cafe opened it’s doors in 1946,

and it has been a favorite of the local hollywood crowd ever since.

Snow White Cafe has literally seen Hollywood transform from the dangerous slump it was to the shimmering city it has become.

But one aspect has remain the same and thankfully intact:

A thriving community of talented artists!

When all the auditions are done and when the curtain is down for their plays on any given weekend,

they come here to relax and to celebrate with a pint of beer or a glass of wine and VIP treatment.

Snow White Cafe got it's name due to one of the most creative and successful Disney’s animated films~“Snow White”~ in fact when you come in look up above the entrance and you’ll see a historical mural crafted by the very hands that gave life to this Disney’s classic.

"SNOW WHITE CAFE~ where your problems dwarf...."

"After the premiere of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Carthay Circle, Disney opened the film at the Vogue. For the party afterward, a friend offered a recently purchased shop he was remodeling into a restaurant. Disney sent Josh Meador and other animators over to paint murals of the Snow White characters on the walls and on the ceiling canvas, creating the Snow White Cafe."

Aside from the association with Walt, himself, the building also has a connection to Disneyland. This Snow White-themed room would mark Disney's first attempt at creating a themed environment for people to walk through and experience. Also, years later when he would build an actual Snow White attraction in his own amusement park, because of a lack of time and money, the planned facade to the "dark-ride" was replaced with another fanciful "Snow White" mural. So for these reasons this "wishing well-watering hole" is in many ways a spiritual predecessor to Disneyland.

In recent times, it is rumored that the Walt Disney Company, in a misguided attempt to maintain brand purity, has tried many times to put this odd little piece of history out of business ,but has never succeeded. Thus, this Disney curiosity continues.

Although the management claims that there are no ghosts within the four walls that make up this tavern, the rest of the small, two-story Spanish Colonial building (built in 1928) is well known to be haunted.
story courtesy~ richard carradine~ ghoul LA~