Screen Cap O’ The Week: Speaking of Coffee and Donuts. And Cops…
Since I mentioned coffee and donuts in the previous post about feeding all my cop muses, I was searching around for a screen cap to post for this week and came across this one from Starsky and Hutch…
That’s Arlene’s Donuts somewhere in Los Angeles. I coulda swore at one time I saw something about this donut shop on tv (the Travel Channel or the Food Channel or whatever) within the past few years but a Google search turned up very little about the place and there’s doubts it even still exists today. Apparently however, it was once a well known and successful shop.
Also interesting to note how Starsky’s Torino is almost like a rolling Coca-Cola sign…
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Arlene’s Donuts was on the northwest corner of Bundy Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles. They went out of business near the end of the 80′s, and it became a place called “Daddy’s Burritos” which also went under and a Starbuck’s Coffee took its place. Arlene’s used to make these absolutely awesome apple fritters that were bigger than an oven mitt and enough to feed 3 people. They were only $0.65 as I recall through the mid-80′s. The original Arlene’s cook, a guy named Tony, opened an Italian deli about a block south of where Arlene’s used to be. It was in a mini-mall next to a 7-11, and I think it’s still open to this day. They have doughnuts there too, although I don’t remember them being as good or as huge as Arlene’s.
Cool! Thanks for the info!