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Swinging Doors — Los Angeles’s Oldest Bars

INTRODUCTION In 2018, I wrote about and made a map of Los Angeles’s oldest restaurants. It proved relatively easy because there was lots already written on the subject. When I started writing about Los Angeles’s oldest bars, it proved much more difficult. Not only could I find no serious effort to draw upon, most of the flimsy listicles out there were a jumble of misinformation copy-and-pasted…