Rare Pacific Dining Car steak house restaurant Los Angeles ASHTRAY- matchbook.

In 1921 Fred Cook and his wife Grace opened their restaurant in a remodeled dining car at the edge of downtown L.A. in 1923 they opened the iconic steak house at 310 W. 6th street. Sadly, the location was shuttered in 2020 due to the pandemic but in 2023 the city council granted it a Historic Designation.

In 1974 it was futured in a scene from the movie Chinatown starring Jack Nicolson and Faye Dunaway and writer James Elroy includes the diner in several of his novels, in fact he married there and later held his divorce party at the restaurant.

Of course who can forget Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawk's scenes from the movie Training Day in 2001.

This hard to find  4 inch round smoky ASHTRAY has vibrant red logo lettering and other than normal wear, has no chips, cracks or scrapes. The MATCHBOOK is full and unstruck depicting the ding car on one side, the Cook's logo on the striker side and locations on the inside flap. I searched high and low for these items and I have no doubt that any collector and lover of L.A. history and lore would be proud to own it. Hey, and at a fair price! I ship free asap.