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Mel's Drive In
Santa Monica, California

Located in downtown Santa Monica on Lincoln Boulevard and Olympic Avenue, this once famous Penguin's Coffee Shop has been re-purposed and restored to highlight its history as a great piece of Googie-style architecture, as the end to the Historic Route 66, and also its geographic location along the Pacific coastline.

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