The End of an Era - Beverly Hills Friars Club is Being Demolished
By Jane Peters, Los Angeles real estate concierge services
(Home Jane Realty)
I remember when I first came to Los Angeles many years ago, going to the Friars Club in Beverly Hills and seeing the likes of Milton Berle, Suzanne Pleshette, and numerous other personalities wandering around. The buffet at the Friars Club was amazing. More food than you could ever think of eating. It was old Hollywood personified. This piece of Beverly Hills real estate is no more. The Friars Club Beverly Hills, a branch of the famed New York establishment of the same name opened in 1947. In 2007, after losing a lawsuit to its New York namesake, it changed its name to Club 9900 and closed shortly after. The Friars Club has lost another battle waged by the Los Angeles Conservancy Group to include its 1960's modernist design in the California Register of Historical Resources. The archit...
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