The Pacific Dining Car restaurant building, a historic-cultural monument where the city's movers and shakers once dined, was heavily damaged in a fire on Saturday. Pacific Dining Car closed permanently in 2020, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic. "It was the place to go for power brokers in Los Angeles," said Adrian Scott Fine, president of the Los Angeles Conservancy, an organization devoted to historic preservation. Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Hernandez, who represented the area from 1991 to 2001, said he knew nothing about Pacific Dining Car before entering politics. "Pacific Dining Car was the place to go if you wanted to be seen and you wanted to see people," he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2024 18:52 UTC