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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Few Los Angeles rooms have a resume like this one: cornfield film set for D.W. Griffith, jail-themed cafe with waiters in inmate stripes, bohemian cabaret where a young Marlon Brando drank, and for six decades now a candlelit replica of a sixteenth-century Spanish tavern. El Cid at 4212 Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is one of the city's great survivors, a terraced hideaway dug into the hillside at Sunset Junction. The site's film legend dates to 1915, when Griffith shot scenes for The Birth o...

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