Anyone remember The Source in W. Hollywood (or thereabout)?

[Oss Rae]

I've heard about the Source over the years, but I just read that in the '60s when it was a "hippie hangout" one of the co-authors of Logan's Run (the original book) did an initial outline there. I believe the Source was on Sunset Blvd.

(Some writers like to work in restaurants/bars. I was already aware that Francis Ford Coppola wrote at least some of his Godfather adaptation at the Vesuvius bar in San Francisco next to City Lights. J.K. Rowling wrote a lot of Harry Potter in a diner. www.newsweek.com/table-jk-rowling-wrote-harry-potter-saved-fire-elephant-house-edinburgh-1634180

[Brian]

Sure, I remember The Source. It was on the Strip on the north side of Sunset five blocks east of where Tower Records used to be. The vegetarian restaurant, which kept the name into the 1980's I believe, is now the site of a "temporarily closed" Cabo Cantina. You'll dig this 2013 story on Eater Los Angeles:

la.eater.com/2013/5/13/6435783/the-source-las-first-spiritual-vegetarian-restaurant

You probably remember the final break up scene there in "Annie Hall." Woody Allen orders a plate of "alfalfa sprouts and mashed yeast" on the patio then hits cars in the parking lot before getting himself arrested because he says he has a problem with authority. The Source was also a location in "Shampoo" two years earlier.

[Oss Rae]

Aug 31, 2022 23:00:44 GMT -8 Brian said:

Sure, I remember The Source. It was on the Strip on the north side of Sunset five blocks east of where Tower Records used to be. The vegetarian restaurant, which kept the name into the 1980's I believe, is now the site of a "temporarily closed" Cabo Cantina. You'll dig this 2013 story on Eater Los Angeles:

la.eater.com/2013/5/13/6435783/the-source-las-first-spiritual-vegetarian-restaurant

You probably remember the final break up scene there in "Annie Hall." Woody Allen orders a plate of "alfalfa sprouts and mashed yeast" on the patio then hits cars in the parking lot before getting himself arrested because he says he has a problem with authority. The Source was also a location in "Shampoo" two years earlier.

Fascinating article, thank you! I must seek out the documentary alluded to in it. On the weekend I spoke to someone at a reunion who went to the Source all the time in the early '70s. One sandwich he liked so much he figured out how to make it at home and never forgot how.