I care about to learn about history… I think 1 of the reasons why I became an architect is so I could preserve some of the buildings that meant a lot to me when I was a kid, but there is 1 entirely neat place in Beverly Hills that I helped restore a couple of weeks ago.
The bar & diner was around while in the prohibition error, however people were selling marijuana from The Beverly Hills bar & diner.
There were pictures inside of the place from the prohibition error. There were pictures of the wall of the bootleggers. They were selling moonshine, cigarettes, marijuana, & any other illegal substance that they could get their hands on. I thought it was important to the history of Beverly Hills to keep this building standing… When the project came up for review, I told the city commissioners what I thought we should do to restore the bar & diner. The Beverly Hills City Commissioner enjoyed all of my ideas. I found a corporation that was willing to commit to moving into the space. The marijuana dispensary was the perfect Beverly Hills corporation to put in the prohibition era bar & diner. The marijuana dispensary is only open while in the afternoon when tourists will be walking up & down the street. The shop only sells a couple of different marijuana products & serves more as a kitschy tourist endpoint than a marijuana dispensary, however both of us have minimal sales, & most of the upgrade from the marijuana dispensary really comes from other Beverly Hills souvenirs care about hats, buttons & pins.