Randy's Giant Doughnut
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member AlphaCat
N 33° 57.708 W 118° 22.226
11S E 373382 N 3758766
Hollywoods most famous breakfast food.
Waymark Code: WM2DY
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/10/2005
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member GeoMonkeys
Views: 182
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The big doughnut at Randy's Donuts, Inglewood, CA, is a few miles north of LAX Airport off the 405. Trees and brush obscure the freeway view more than they must have in 1953, when the Big Donut Drive-in chain opened. Once up the exit ramp and on the cross-street, the 22-foot diameter snack appears poised to roll off an otherwise uninspired drive-thru store.

Randy's is a destination with Hollywood star status. It appears over and over as movie backdrop or in obliquely angled atmospheric LA montages. The big doughnut needs a regular smog and soot scrub -- a black grime is caked across the top and settled around the texture nubbins. The neighborhood itself is a little grimy.

But.... the doughnuts baked at Randy's are fresh and tasty -- honey-glazed, chocolate drenched, and fat bearclaws acquired at the drive-thru window from friendly staff. Randy's sells souvenir hats, and a T-shirt featuring an illustration of the building.

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