Last week came the news that the Clinton family (yes, Clinton) had decided to sell the building that has housed Clifton's Cafeteria, known as Clifton's Brookdale because of its whimsical forest themed decor, since 1935. Although few people admit to finding the food offered at the last of the Clifton's Cafeterias a gastronomic revelation, the news brought the immediate fear that this would bring about the end altogether of a decades-long institution in Los Angeles. While the Clinton family hopes to just unload the property but continue to operate the cafeteria (they actually only bought the building at 648 S Broadway in Downtown outright in 2006) now seems like a fitting time to fill in the gaps of local history when it comes to the Clintons and their Clifton's Cafeterias...and maybe, if you're hungry, prompt a trip with a tray down the lanes of the eatery--the last of a dying breed.
Clifton's began in 1931, when Clifford Clinton, son of a hotel and restaurant man from Missouri who'd made his way out west in the 1880s, bought a troubled cafeteria-style restaurant on Olive Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Born in 1900, Clinton had a very profound belief in feeding those in need, thought to stem from a childhood missionary family trip to China where he encountered extreme poverty (MacVean). He operated his cafeteria, named by merging the first part of his first name, "Clif," and the last part of his last name, "ton," by the rule of pay-what-you-can, and "dine free unless delighted," due to his Christian faith and wish to help the hungry and homeless, particularly at the time, as it was the Great Depression.READ MORE
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