Marc: I was born in Sta. Monica and when I was three; my parents emigrated in Los Angeles. I grow up in the Beverly with Section of towns which is adjacent to Westwood. It is primarily a Jewish section town. In actually did not know until I was 12 years old that they were white people who were not Jews.
I am Marc Scott Zicree, the author of the Twilight Zone Companion. I am also a writer, producer working in television. Everyone knows that LA is constantly being reinvented, reconstructed. It is a town of façade, false faces, but there are a little of authenticity. If you look for them, if you look on secret corners, even step through a door and it is like going into a portal in time.
This is one of the places that stir to my heart in Los Angeles, the Apple Pan. I have memories of coming here when I was three years old with my parents and it was exactly the same, the same food, and the same wallpaper. The exterior has changed in terms of what surrounds it.
When they are going to build this mall and this adjoined thing over here, they did not watch the property, but that is just not something we wanted to view.
Okay, well, I am Sunny Sherman. My grandparents, Ellen Baker and Ellen Baker started the restaurant. Mom was generally here and it has just been a nice family restaurant for 59 years now. It is original, so that people that came here 50 years ago are the same and that is kind of nice because everything does change in LA. Charlie is going to be 50 years next January that he has worked here. So, it is a little bit comforting to have something to just be there and be as it always was because how many place you can find out.
It is a beautiful day in Los Angeles. We are now at the Farmers’ Market at the corner 30 Fairfox. About a hundred years ago, this was the Gilmore Gerry Farming Today Kid Oil and then it became the Gilmore Well Company. In 1934, the land owned by the Gilmores, Farmers start selling fruits out of trucks and they put to become the Framers’ Market.
Now, I used to go to the Apple Pan when I was three or four years old with my mom and dad. But when the split up and I was growing up and becoming a teenager, we were here. We were right next door to CBS, here at Television City itself. All the writers would come here and just choose all day long. A lot is all guys just right next to Fairfox which is the Jewish District. This place is reeks of the 1936 trip and smells the food, so authentic, baked goods, donuts and ice cream and foods from all over the world here. You can just imagine Peter Laurie or Humphrey Vogart. When these guys are eating here, grabbing a quick bite. Live TV started here too at CBS, both here and in New York. So, it is very much the offended in the Los Angeles of decades gone by.
Okay, we are right now standing on Hollywood Boulevard and this 2006. there is no doubt about, with the tattoo parlors, and all of the noise and bustle. We are about to go into a time machine and go back into the past, so come along with me.
Manuel: It is Emmanuel H. Felix, spell that one right. I have been here for about 32 years now and it has been a joy. The restaurant opened it 1919 and I believe that the time would best describe it.
Marc: I love spectacular real cash register?
Manuel: Really, yes sir. None of these come through rice stuff.
Marc: Watsons became aware of loosing on Franks when I was researching my book for Twilight Zone Companion back in the late 70s. I found that the Twilight Zone writers back in 1959, 1960 used to hang out here, Richard Matheson, Charles Bowman, George and even Ziering would come here and so I came here and I was astonished because it is exactly like stepping through a doorway into the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. 4.04 used to hang out here.
Manuel: Even Charlotte would cost me recently with me starring back Papa Heningway and many of them.
Marc: So, if you want a little taste of the old Hollywood, with great taste of film and TV, you just go to these doorways and you order up steak and martini and you are there. You do not have to imagine it.
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