Quality Cafe

Quality Cafe is the name of two different locations in Downtown Los Angeles, California:

The Quality Cafe (also known as Quality Diner) is a now-defunct diner in Los Angeles, California, near the corner of West 7th Street and Hartford Avenue. The restaurant ceased to function as a diner in 2005, but has appeared as a location featured in a number of Hollywood films, including Training Day, Old School, Se7en, Ghost World, Gone in 60 Seconds,The Stepfather , and Catch Me If You Can. It was also featured in Season 1 of the 2007 television series Mad Men, in the episode "5G."[1]

Quality Cafe is also the name of a historical restaurant and jazz club located at 1143 East 12th Street near the corner of Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles.[2] Quality Four, a jazz quarter founded by saxophonist Paul Howard and featuring young trombonist Lionel Hampton, was formed in 1924 to play at Quality Cafe.[3] The band soon became Quality Quintet and then Quality Serenades, and was disbanded after a tour with Hazel Myers later in the same year.[4] On June 7, 1924, the venue, too, changed its name to Humming Bird Cafe and became "one of the hottest nightclubs in the area" under this name.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Quality Cafe: LA's Most Famous Restaurant (That Doesn't Exist)" The Huffington Post, August 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows (1998). California soul: music of African Americans in the West. University of California Press. ISBN 0520206282. p. 52.
  3. ^ DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 47.
  4. ^ Clora Bryant (1999). Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press. ISBN 0520220986. p. 11.
  5. ^ DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 52 (quote), p. 53 (exact date).

External links

Quality Cafe (7th Street location) in video mash-up at Screen Junkies [1]