Visit to Shakey's Pizza in LA

While I was visiting Los Angeles for the LA Film Festival I was very surprised to see a Shakey's Pizza restaurant as I drove down the road. I literally swerved off the road so I could take some photos. Having lived on the East Coast all my life, the last Shakey's I saw was sometime in the late '70s!

I've been a collector of vintage Shakey's Pizza paraphernalia for a year or two [see my collection here], and it just blew my mind to be driving down the road and - hey! it's a vintage Shakeys! I could tell from the road-side sign that this was definitely a restaurant that dated back to the early days when they were still on the East Coast. Just look at the photos. It was like traveling through a time machine.

I remember doing some web searches years ago and seeing that they still had a presence outside the US, but I didn't see anything saying they were still on the West Coast. Somehow I just didn't know. The menu lists www.shakeys.com, and I'll be darned if they don't have a website. How'd I miss THAT? :-) I of course took a bunch of photos while I was there, and grabbed a menu to scan.

Visit the page with the pictures here

The rest of my Shakey's collection is there too. Just click on the "Toys & Collectibles" link at the top of the page!