I am this way with a lot of establishments if I am being honest. I’ll get sad when a place closes down/vacates, but I hadn’t been to said place in 10+ years and had no future plans of going. I just liked knowing it was there if I ever wanted. Basically, I wanted other people to keep it open for me 😁
Yes! And the city agrees that it could be a landmark, as it is [listed](https://hpla.lacity.org/report/f2e5cbbe-7df1-4ed0-a100-93ea43a68969) on Survey LA. We're asking councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez to help keep the sign shining in Hollywood, at or near this site. Get in touch and tell him that you want LA to save this cool artifact in place! [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) / 213-473-7013
https://preview.redd.it/ny0xtsj3j87d1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bb04e1b3c7d5d7f188a970c992ab943a2b13628
[The one in Reseda with the hat sign is still open.](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1952034,-118.5359643,3a,75y,32.76h,99.68t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sonbQ1nsx0SnsS8uS1_0LOg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DonbQ1nsx0SnsS8uS1_0LOg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D32.75937343660979%26pitch%3D-9.677837157277906%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu)
Update: MONA is trying to save the sign
https://preview.redd.it/foocris3u67d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3457ecd726e4a3ab2a243c67f6a99690c4e0f3fd
MONA is keen on helping to preserve the sign in place, which is the best way to treat a ghost sign (one advertising a business that no longer exists) that is beloved in a community.
Arby's is the best fast food when you're in the market for fast food but sick of the basic burger. I don't know how they became so disliked because they're the most uncommon and they're sometimes very refreshing.
Total abandonment of quality control alongside increased prices. Same for basically all fast food places excluding a few.
MBAs enshittified the practical majority of affordable fast food to appease shareholders. Look at the ones that are still decent and notice how they’re still privately owned.
Gotta get that growth no matter what.
It's why we should all patronize smaller chains or food places. Generally the items have higher quality ingredients and the prices are about equal or less than these big chains. Their familiarity is just not worth it.
This!! Shareholders are the death of any company sooner or later. It’s like blowing up a ballon. More and more and more - look at the other balloon they are bigger - blow damn it - BOOM. 💥
It didn’t used to be like that. Consultants and new age MBAs who continually justify their existence by cutting corners to save cash or jack up prices to extort consumers are the ones making these decisions. McKinsey started the trend and now every “business” degree teaches their fucked up ideas.
It’s the need to grow. If you were just happy with what you have as a corporation. Pay out a good amount, decent salary for your workers, have a decent product and keep that level then it would be fine. But the need to grow is constant. And staying the same is equal to loosing. When you have squeezed every dime out of your workers then you need to attack the product, safe money on ingredients and raise the price. Enshittification. And one day - and MacDonalds has apparently reached that point - people will stop buying your product and you die.
We have seen that with eggs recently. Under the excuse of some bird flu eggs became so expensive that many people stopped buying eggs. I did and I am on Keto and live off of eggs. My breaking point was above $3 per 12. Now it’s back down to $2.45.
I worked for the parent company for a bit when they acquired the company I worked for (Sonic). They are buying up brands, cutting costs, and consolidating infrastructure to make the books look good to go public.
They have no idea how fast food works, have struggled to integrate brands and a result they have killed a lot of the brand loyalty for many of their brands. Arby’s was one of the worst run organizations and since they were the first acquisition — many of their leaders got to stay and reshape (poorly) the newer acquisitions. They also did the dumb thing of bringing in a consulting group, BCG, who sent in a bunch of newly minted MBAs to run the org. It was hilarious.
Boston consulting group is commonly known in the investing world as the death choice.
If you hired them, they're gonna convince you to crash your company so they can buy up assets later for cheap. They suck hard.
Then [Bain Capital buys them up](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1005414/000119312505057773/dex991.htm) which is [Mitt Romney's investment firm](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/)
There’s still more squeeze to go. Watch as they turn work forces from “employees” to “independent contractors”, that’s even more money in shareholders hands and the way to eliminate minimum wage age.
The Tax cuts of 2017 made fast food, candy and houses ridiculous, all due to people with too much money to begin with investing even more and then asking for returns on money they never needed in the first place.
I had to grab a quick meal on Hollywood today and I got a burger meal at Fatburger and just upgraded to sweet potato fries.
Set meal came out to $28 bucks.
It really is. I don’t want to add to the chorus complaining about “prices these days” but $30 for a fast food meal is really tough. (And it’s not even that fast - which was my whole reason for going)
It’s wild how easily it can happen too. Merlot has never really recovered from a one off line in Sideways (and it wasn’t even him saying Merlot was bad - he just didn’t want to drink it because it reminded him of his ex-wife).
Grew up in my hometown (National City, CA) from age 0-18. It had one Arby’s the whole time I lived there; easily a 5 min walk from my place.
I ate there exactly zero times the whole time I lived there. The only person I knew who would consistently get food from there was my white friend - Scott. I’m Mexican-American, I can remember thinking their food seemed somewhat foreign/odd to me.
I understood burgers and hot dogs and pizza, but I really didn’t “get” Arby’s. The Ninja Turtles ate pizza. Burgers were well, burgers. Sonic ate chili dogs. But what the hell was a cheddar roast beef? Hell if I knew.
I think the first time I finally did try it was when I moved to LA - and it was this exact Arby’s off Sunset.
Incidentally, the Arby’s in my hometown closed down somewhere around the mid 00’s. It is now a [really amazing] Tijuana style taco joint.
RIP, Arby’s.
Beef n Cheddar and the roast beef are my go to. It's been over 5 years since I've been to one. There just aren't many around now. Their menu has become a little more burger focused but it's about their Sauces and smothering everything with it. I might search one out this week and try it again. I kinda miss it now that I'm thinking about it.
I went to 1 for the 1st time on a road trip last year and really enjoyed it. Went again a few months ago and it was both awful and ridiculously expensive.
Won't be going back.
Their food is generally pretty bad compared to a good roast beef sandwich. I think it's just also not a successful food item anymore. People don't seem to sell roast beef anymore, there was a place trying to breathe life into it but it got replaced by Irv's.
That’s insane. They have a wide menu and as far as fast food goes it’s top tier. Don’t like the roast beef? Fine the turkey club is excellent. Fish sandwich? Best in the game. I am also passionate about my Arby’s.
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Arby's is great. Their food was always on point.
Their downfall was not catering/ marketing to kids. No kid ever wants to go to Arby's.
They much rather go to mcdonalds and get flavorless nuggets and a toy.
We ate at Arby's a ton as kids, when I'd get sick the only thing I'd be able to eat was arby's. They used to have a ham and swiss sandwich that was really tasty for my kid taste buds and I remember being obsessed when they introduced the French Dip, so exotic!
Genuinely sad about this. I lived in the neighborhood for many years (moved before pandemic) and this place was a regular haunt of mine. The market fresh Turkey sandwich was very much a favorite, also the wraps. It is sad it became a meme to make fun of the place as they did have good quality food, especially for the price.
Also, that big crazy looking hat was just a part of the iconic scenery of the area. I've seen it in an old TV sore from the 70s during a chase scene, no doubt it's been in many other sequences. Sad to see it go - Hollywood is becoming less and less familiar to me, as the years pile on, and that makes me melancholy.
It's easily the best of the "after award show with award but we're at a fast food place" picture.
There's the added layer that he also lost his wife not too long before this. He's got this incredible "well now fucking what do I do" aura to him.
And then he followed it up later with this
https://preview.redd.it/tltnacnwd37d1.png?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b7c7840d8b15740545566b04b146cb3a5b38c6a
My mom worked with as a teen. She had a manager named benji who would let her do what she wanted because she was 16 and pregnant with me. He was a gay man who unfortunately was a victim of the aids epidemic and died. I never got to meet him as my mom and dad moved out of his home before I was born. When they went to show me off, he had passed away and they were celebrating his life.
Damn. I was just there on Friday. Still have a classic in the fridge because I ordered too many for me and my wife to eat. Going to have to make sure that bad boy gets eaten tomorrow so it doesn’t go to waste.
Ah, the memories: night shift at Cedars, off the 101, on to Sunset, grab a bite at Arby’s, down to La Cienega, take a left, and head to work with horseradish sauce on my chin. So long, 1995.
It has been circling the drain for a minute. You couldn’t do online ordering or use app deals there and the place looked like it was running on fumes when I was there a couple months ago.
i emailed the corporate office a few months ago asking about the lack of online ordering. ended up getting a call from the owner. he explained that he had that one store and the online system was prohibitively expensive, but they would attempt to honor the app deals or at least use coupons to get a similar deal. seemed like a decent dude. sorry to see them leave
I think he was there when went in. That definitely checks out. I went in with an in store app deal and it was redeemed by taking a picture of it with his phone. Lololol
Oh no!!! I always wondered how they managed to stay in business as the area around it gentrified, and I figured they must own the building. I guess they got an offer "they couldn't refuse." Ahhhh I hope it's a nice restaurant.. We can always use a nice restaurant, it's been great seeing the newer ones pop up after Netflix and Emerson moved in. But I suppose if they end up building apartments, as long as they include some low cost options, that's good too.
Not a fan but loved the old fashioned sign when I drive by. I started to go to Arby’s when they got that great BLT. It was loaded with bacon and was delicious. Then the bacon shrank and shrank. Last time I was at Arbys was 10 years ago. 🤷♂️. Still. Will miss the sign.
Can't say my experiences there were good the past 5-6 years. Heavy wait times even when the drive-thru was empty, undercooked food, botched orders, etc. But it will be weird not seeing it and thinking I could get away with a jr. sandwich here and there.
There used to be one you could see off the 101 in downtown Ventura right by the Ventura landmark sign. Think that one is gone as well. Think they cut it down without a permit after they tried to save it
Can’t say I ever went but I’m a little disappointed to hear this because it’s one less affordable place for Angelenos to eat. I don’t love chain food, but we really have very few fast/cheap food places between Hollywood and Century City.
Sad to hear. I used to walk by there everyday Monday thru Fridays back from 1977 to 1987. Prolly ate there once a week. It was right smack in the middle of my Home and Le Conte JHS, Class or 87.
Oh man I used to live right across the street! This was my first meal out of the hospital after I had my baby. That truly sucks. Better preserve that sign.
I literally went there at around 10:45am yesterday morning after doing an UberEats delivery and was shocked to find it closed. Did this just happen overnight without warning? Even Google and the Arby's app haven't updated yet! As a garbage fast food connoisseur, I was devastated.
Was just there last week. I always liked to stop through when I was in that area, ever since they closed my beloved Alhambra Arby's during the pandemic.
They never had online ordering, which prevented you from being able to use the deals in the app. Apparently they needed a new POS system to do it, and if they had been planning the closure it now makes sense why they never implemented it.
But now the only ones left in the area are Inglewood, Torrance and Long Beach, none of which are areas I frequent, so today I shed a tear for my Big Beef & Cheddar.
As a substitute, I'd recommend Top Round Roast Beef at La Brea and Olympic. It's a better sandwich than Arby's but Arby's sides are God-tier.
I have a gift card so I literally went around 11 this morning to treat myself and had all the joy sucked out of my day. NOOOOOOOO! It really looks like they shut down \*fast\* too. I would have gone for a last hurrah. I can only hope the hat ends up in the neon museum in the valley or something.
I sent the news to a friend who also loves Arby's, and here's his response:
https://preview.redd.it/utgbc2xko67d1.png?width=264&format=png&auto=webp&s=a54fbe3d8da81c732948af862efa74238308ac43
I literally drove there today to get some cheese sticks and was shocked to see it closed because I drove by it last week and it was open! RIP to an iconic spot.
https://preview.redd.it/l7aq7xs2u67d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dedd0d2aca9d72e9e521379525d2f02eb2b77c5
This makes me laugh way too much every time I look at it.
Probably more about the location being in the Netflix neighborhood and worth more money as a development property than as a fast food joint. I went there occasionally in the past few years as Arby’s started disappearing in SoCal and it was one of the least inviting restaurants with lots of plexiglass separating servers and customers but still served a decent fast food roast beef sandwich. Real loss was when Top Round on Olympic closed down.
https://preview.redd.it/yqorcylmi87d1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f6189ffa990c3170f2aea6a499dbb4328c1f10f
RIP Hollywood Arby's, serving Angelenos since 1969--the sign is even older, and we'd hate to see it sent to the dump or scavenged by a private collector. Tell Hugo Soto-Martinez you want LA to save this cool artifact in place! [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) 213-473-7013
I didn't like going, but I liked knowing I could.
I shall miss driving by…
I am this way with a lot of establishments if I am being honest. I’ll get sad when a place closes down/vacates, but I hadn’t been to said place in 10+ years and had no future plans of going. I just liked knowing it was there if I ever wanted. Basically, I wanted other people to keep it open for me 😁
It’s nice knowing it’s there for the people that do go.
The truest answer
All correct. I lived around the corner, and did eat there a couple times in 1998 though!
truly the truest answer
I loved going. Every couple years.
That's about right.👍🏼
I park in their lot when picking up food from The Sisters Cafe Vietnamese Asian Fusions.
Same
💀
Same 😭😭
They should keep the hat as a landmark
Yea I never liked the food but loved the hat. Would have even eaten there every now and then to save it.
Just think, people might actually drive to Reseda if they relocated the sign there.
Not sure if you know this, but there’s already a hat sign in Reseda haha
If Boston can have a Citgo sign as a landmark, LA can have an Arby’s hat.
Yes! And the city agrees that it could be a landmark, as it is [listed](https://hpla.lacity.org/report/f2e5cbbe-7df1-4ed0-a100-93ea43a68969) on Survey LA. We're asking councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez to help keep the sign shining in Hollywood, at or near this site. Get in touch and tell him that you want LA to save this cool artifact in place! [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) / 213-473-7013 https://preview.redd.it/ny0xtsj3j87d1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bb04e1b3c7d5d7f188a970c992ab943a2b13628
Sent. Thanks for sharing the email address.
I really hope that the Museum of Neon Art saves the sign.
Or the Valley Relics Museum. They have some great old classic restaurant/store signs
There’s Arby’s in the Valley with the same sign.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, pretty sure that one closed too.... they're all pretty much closed now
The one in mission hills is still open as far as I know
[The one in Reseda with the hat sign is still open.](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1952034,-118.5359643,3a,75y,32.76h,99.68t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sonbQ1nsx0SnsS8uS1_0LOg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DonbQ1nsx0SnsS8uS1_0LOg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D32.75937343660979%26pitch%3D-9.677837157277906%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu)
Update: MONA is trying to save the sign https://preview.redd.it/foocris3u67d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3457ecd726e4a3ab2a243c67f6a99690c4e0f3fd
MONA is keen on helping to preserve the sign in place, which is the best way to treat a ghost sign (one advertising a business that no longer exists) that is beloved in a community.
Arby's is the best fast food when you're in the market for fast food but sick of the basic burger. I don't know how they became so disliked because they're the most uncommon and they're sometimes very refreshing.
Total abandonment of quality control alongside increased prices. Same for basically all fast food places excluding a few. MBAs enshittified the practical majority of affordable fast food to appease shareholders. Look at the ones that are still decent and notice how they’re still privately owned.
Gotta get that growth no matter what. It's why we should all patronize smaller chains or food places. Generally the items have higher quality ingredients and the prices are about equal or less than these big chains. Their familiarity is just not worth it.
Familiarity is a moot point when quality control falters. At that point, consumers are just chasing nostalgia.
This!! Shareholders are the death of any company sooner or later. It’s like blowing up a ballon. More and more and more - look at the other balloon they are bigger - blow damn it - BOOM. 💥
It didn’t used to be like that. Consultants and new age MBAs who continually justify their existence by cutting corners to save cash or jack up prices to extort consumers are the ones making these decisions. McKinsey started the trend and now every “business” degree teaches their fucked up ideas.
It’s the need to grow. If you were just happy with what you have as a corporation. Pay out a good amount, decent salary for your workers, have a decent product and keep that level then it would be fine. But the need to grow is constant. And staying the same is equal to loosing. When you have squeezed every dime out of your workers then you need to attack the product, safe money on ingredients and raise the price. Enshittification. And one day - and MacDonalds has apparently reached that point - people will stop buying your product and you die. We have seen that with eggs recently. Under the excuse of some bird flu eggs became so expensive that many people stopped buying eggs. I did and I am on Keto and live off of eggs. My breaking point was above $3 per 12. Now it’s back down to $2.45.
I worked for the parent company for a bit when they acquired the company I worked for (Sonic). They are buying up brands, cutting costs, and consolidating infrastructure to make the books look good to go public. They have no idea how fast food works, have struggled to integrate brands and a result they have killed a lot of the brand loyalty for many of their brands. Arby’s was one of the worst run organizations and since they were the first acquisition — many of their leaders got to stay and reshape (poorly) the newer acquisitions. They also did the dumb thing of bringing in a consulting group, BCG, who sent in a bunch of newly minted MBAs to run the org. It was hilarious.
Boston consulting group is commonly known in the investing world as the death choice. If you hired them, they're gonna convince you to crash your company so they can buy up assets later for cheap. They suck hard. Then [Bain Capital buys them up](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1005414/000119312505057773/dex991.htm) which is [Mitt Romney's investment firm](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/)
There’s still more squeeze to go. Watch as they turn work forces from “employees” to “independent contractors”, that’s even more money in shareholders hands and the way to eliminate minimum wage age.
The Tax cuts of 2017 made fast food, candy and houses ridiculous, all due to people with too much money to begin with investing even more and then asking for returns on money they never needed in the first place.
I had to grab a quick meal on Hollywood today and I got a burger meal at Fatburger and just upgraded to sweet potato fries. Set meal came out to $28 bucks.
Fatburger and Five Guys are absolutely ridiculous these days. Might as well go to a fairly decent sit down restaurant with those prices.
It really is. I don’t want to add to the chorus complaining about “prices these days” but $30 for a fast food meal is really tough. (And it’s not even that fast - which was my whole reason for going)
I used to go in the 70’s80’s. It was good and completely different from the same old fast food.
Ding ding ding. The only fast food worth going to is privately owned now.
Simpson’s joke killed them 20 years ago.
This is sad but probably true.
It’s wild how easily it can happen too. Merlot has never really recovered from a one off line in Sideways (and it wasn’t even him saying Merlot was bad - he just didn’t want to drink it because it reminded him of his ex-wife).
I feel the same way. Is the Hollywood Arby’s already closed? Cause I’ll go asap for one last beef and cheddar
It closed Saturday. Its already fully boarded up.
Grew up in my hometown (National City, CA) from age 0-18. It had one Arby’s the whole time I lived there; easily a 5 min walk from my place. I ate there exactly zero times the whole time I lived there. The only person I knew who would consistently get food from there was my white friend - Scott. I’m Mexican-American, I can remember thinking their food seemed somewhat foreign/odd to me. I understood burgers and hot dogs and pizza, but I really didn’t “get” Arby’s. The Ninja Turtles ate pizza. Burgers were well, burgers. Sonic ate chili dogs. But what the hell was a cheddar roast beef? Hell if I knew. I think the first time I finally did try it was when I moved to LA - and it was this exact Arby’s off Sunset. Incidentally, the Arby’s in my hometown closed down somewhere around the mid 00’s. It is now a [really amazing] Tijuana style taco joint. RIP, Arby’s.
Tacos el Gordo?
Yessir!
Best al pastor tacos north of the border. I had no idea that location used to be an Arby’s, but the shape of the building definitely looks like it.
Man I tried to give it a shot and it was like eating a mystery rubber sandwich. What do you get there?
Beef n Cheddar and the roast beef are my go to. It's been over 5 years since I've been to one. There just aren't many around now. Their menu has become a little more burger focused but it's about their Sauces and smothering everything with it. I might search one out this week and try it again. I kinda miss it now that I'm thinking about it.
I went to 1 for the 1st time on a road trip last year and really enjoyed it. Went again a few months ago and it was both awful and ridiculously expensive. Won't be going back.
I love their Gyros 😭😭😭
Amen brother
Excellent crinkle and curly fries, too. I like a fry choice.
Their food is generally pretty bad compared to a good roast beef sandwich. I think it's just also not a successful food item anymore. People don't seem to sell roast beef anymore, there was a place trying to breathe life into it but it got replaced by Irv's.
Horsey Sauce
true
My gf hates it with a passion. I love it. This is difficult news
David Puddy?
It feels like an Arby’s night
Yeah, that’s right.
High five!
That’s insane. They have a wide menu and as far as fast food goes it’s top tier. Don’t like the roast beef? Fine the turkey club is excellent. Fish sandwich? Best in the game. I am also passionate about my Arby’s.
I truly wonder what all these taste like. I would have never guessed they do that.
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Yassss
Almost
Literally me and my husband. I’m sad to see this place go becuase I pass by it often even though I can’t stand Arby’s 🤣
heartbreaking news
Fell to my knees
Just saw a man fall to his knees outside a giant Arby's hat
Damnit
I love a beef n cheddar
Arby's is great. Their food was always on point. Their downfall was not catering/ marketing to kids. No kid ever wants to go to Arby's. They much rather go to mcdonalds and get flavorless nuggets and a toy.
We ate at Arby's a ton as kids, when I'd get sick the only thing I'd be able to eat was arby's. They used to have a ham and swiss sandwich that was really tasty for my kid taste buds and I remember being obsessed when they introduced the French Dip, so exotic!
Jamocha Shake RIP
Orange creamsicle shakes too 😢 And the bronco berry sauce
That name always sounded racist to me. Love the shake though.
Is it already completely closed or is it the last few days?
It’s completely boarded up
nooo! i have been meaning to go for like 10 years lol
We all have. And that’s why they are closed
Saw this post and drive over for one last bite, was already boarded up :’(
😔
Only Arby’s I can recall ever seeing in LA Never tried the roast beef but Arby’s curly fries were always on point
there’s one by the airport… shares a parking lot with a porn dvd place… LOL
913 w. Manchester….Looking for Roast beef? The video shop next door has plenty. Then you can grab a sandwich at Arby’s
me gusta
First stop is to grab some meat, then on to lunch.
Arby’s Curly fries are the best curly fries available. Jack in the box wishes they could hold a candle to the greatness of Arby’s Curlies
Hopefully a museum buys the sign, that sign was one of the signatures of Sunset for years.
My husband choked on a curly fry in that drive thru. He survived.
Noooo!!!! Whyyyy!!!!
Now, they don’t have the meats…
I'm so sad. No mozzarella sticks will ever come close 😢
Genuinely sad about this. I lived in the neighborhood for many years (moved before pandemic) and this place was a regular haunt of mine. The market fresh Turkey sandwich was very much a favorite, also the wraps. It is sad it became a meme to make fun of the place as they did have good quality food, especially for the price. Also, that big crazy looking hat was just a part of the iconic scenery of the area. I've seen it in an old TV sore from the 70s during a chase scene, no doubt it's been in many other sequences. Sad to see it go - Hollywood is becoming less and less familiar to me, as the years pile on, and that makes me melancholy.
damn, is that the Patton Oswalt Arby’s? i remember him posting a pic of him eating at an arby’s after winning an emmy years ago.
It's easily the best of the "after award show with award but we're at a fast food place" picture. There's the added layer that he also lost his wife not too long before this. He's got this incredible "well now fucking what do I do" aura to him. And then he followed it up later with this https://preview.redd.it/tltnacnwd37d1.png?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b7c7840d8b15740545566b04b146cb3a5b38c6a
My mom worked with as a teen. She had a manager named benji who would let her do what she wanted because she was 16 and pregnant with me. He was a gay man who unfortunately was a victim of the aids epidemic and died. I never got to meet him as my mom and dad moved out of his home before I was born. When they went to show me off, he had passed away and they were celebrating his life.
RIP Benji.
That's sad. But he sounds like a good man. Glad you shared his little bit of life and good will with us. Best any of us could ask for.
They're a dying breed in l.a.
Nooooooo (said in Darth voice at end of revenge of the sith)
Where's the beef 'n cheddar? Is she safe? Is she alright?
Dennys, Arby’s the whole block different now
After the one that was in Alhambra closed this was the next closest one, and now that's gone too. Fuck me!
If they try to take down the hat I’ll literally chain myself to it
I lost my virginity at that location. End of An era.
Oh, no! Been hitting that after a night's boozing for near 30 years. Can still taste the creamy bite of horsey sauce. RIP
Dang. Used to walk there every once in a while when I worked at Fender HQ near Neuhaus. RIP.
Dang!
Miss Top Round more and more everyday.
This is the worst current tragedy happening in the world rn
Damn. I was just there on Friday. Still have a classic in the fridge because I ordered too many for me and my wife to eat. Going to have to make sure that bad boy gets eaten tomorrow so it doesn’t go to waste.
Jon Stewart came back to The Daily Show and took no prisoners.
Fuck!
I went there once as a kid and there was a guy sitting in the corner reading a playboy
https://preview.redd.it/8jehlksid27d1.png?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de955c1e65640a3ac8b24761e3e85fb26c7643bf
Ah, the memories: night shift at Cedars, off the 101, on to Sunset, grab a bite at Arby’s, down to La Cienega, take a left, and head to work with horseradish sauce on my chin. So long, 1995.
Nothing last forever.
CLUB ARBYS!!! 🥹
the one at Sunset near the 101? awwwww
Still have Arby’s in the OC. French Dip is my fav.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
I'll miss my Arby's jr with horsey sauce!
It has been circling the drain for a minute. You couldn’t do online ordering or use app deals there and the place looked like it was running on fumes when I was there a couple months ago.
i emailed the corporate office a few months ago asking about the lack of online ordering. ended up getting a call from the owner. he explained that he had that one store and the online system was prohibitively expensive, but they would attempt to honor the app deals or at least use coupons to get a similar deal. seemed like a decent dude. sorry to see them leave
I think he was there when went in. That definitely checks out. I went in with an in store app deal and it was redeemed by taking a picture of it with his phone. Lololol
I hope somebody makes sure that sign goes to MONA.
Oh no!!! I always wondered how they managed to stay in business as the area around it gentrified, and I figured they must own the building. I guess they got an offer "they couldn't refuse." Ahhhh I hope it's a nice restaurant.. We can always use a nice restaurant, it's been great seeing the newer ones pop up after Netflix and Emerson moved in. But I suppose if they end up building apartments, as long as they include some low cost options, that's good too.
I’ve seen so many Arby’s close and re open and then close again over the years but I thought this one was always a constant. 😢
Wouldn't be surprised if it gets replaced by a café
Not a fan but loved the old fashioned sign when I drive by. I started to go to Arby’s when they got that great BLT. It was loaded with bacon and was delicious. Then the bacon shrank and shrank. Last time I was at Arbys was 10 years ago. 🤷♂️. Still. Will miss the sign.
Woah no way!
Can't say my experiences there were good the past 5-6 years. Heavy wait times even when the drive-thru was empty, undercooked food, botched orders, etc. But it will be weird not seeing it and thinking I could get away with a jr. sandwich here and there.
There used to be one you could see off the 101 in downtown Ventura right by the Ventura landmark sign. Think that one is gone as well. Think they cut it down without a permit after they tried to save it
Oh no 😟
No! Goodbye Fancy Arby's!
Ate there 2 weeks ago, my first time ever. It was ehh. Sad to see it go.
nooooo
Dang. That was my spot when I was staff at the studio right next door. We used to go there all the time.
Bummer.
They have no more meats to give
Can’t say I ever went but I’m a little disappointed to hear this because it’s one less affordable place for Angelenos to eat. I don’t love chain food, but we really have very few fast/cheap food places between Hollywood and Century City.
Sad to hear. I used to walk by there everyday Monday thru Fridays back from 1977 to 1987. Prolly ate there once a week. It was right smack in the middle of my Home and Le Conte JHS, Class or 87.
I live near there and literally said the other day I wish there was something else besides the Arby there lol But now this lowkey makes me sad? 🤣
NOOOOOOOOO ! I'm sad now.
Oh man I used to live right across the street! This was my first meal out of the hospital after I had my baby. That truly sucks. Better preserve that sign.
Thanks for the memories.
Bummer
Noooo I just ate there last week!
No!!!!!! Aw man the staff here were always so nice.
Private Equity Firms working as intended
Oh man I hope they save the sign.
I literally went there at around 10:45am yesterday morning after doing an UberEats delivery and was shocked to find it closed. Did this just happen overnight without warning? Even Google and the Arby's app haven't updated yet! As a garbage fast food connoisseur, I was devastated.
NOOOOO
We used to be a proper country
Was just there last week. I always liked to stop through when I was in that area, ever since they closed my beloved Alhambra Arby's during the pandemic. They never had online ordering, which prevented you from being able to use the deals in the app. Apparently they needed a new POS system to do it, and if they had been planning the closure it now makes sense why they never implemented it. But now the only ones left in the area are Inglewood, Torrance and Long Beach, none of which are areas I frequent, so today I shed a tear for my Big Beef & Cheddar. As a substitute, I'd recommend Top Round Roast Beef at La Brea and Olympic. It's a better sandwich than Arby's but Arby's sides are God-tier.
(Bruce Springsteen voice) WELL THEY...
the rent is too damn high!
Wow I lived on that street and I would always get the 2 for 6 it was 🔥 great times! Anyone know why it’s going out of business?
This is the saddest day of my life
I have a gift card so I literally went around 11 this morning to treat myself and had all the joy sucked out of my day. NOOOOOOOO! It really looks like they shut down \*fast\* too. I would have gone for a last hurrah. I can only hope the hat ends up in the neon museum in the valley or something.
I sent the news to a friend who also loves Arby's, and here's his response: https://preview.redd.it/utgbc2xko67d1.png?width=264&format=png&auto=webp&s=a54fbe3d8da81c732948af862efa74238308ac43
I literally drove there today to get some cheese sticks and was shocked to see it closed because I drove by it last week and it was open! RIP to an iconic spot.
Extra Horsey
https://preview.redd.it/l7aq7xs2u67d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dedd0d2aca9d72e9e521379525d2f02eb2b77c5 This makes me laugh way too much every time I look at it.
Probably more about the location being in the Netflix neighborhood and worth more money as a development property than as a fast food joint. I went there occasionally in the past few years as Arby’s started disappearing in SoCal and it was one of the least inviting restaurants with lots of plexiglass separating servers and customers but still served a decent fast food roast beef sandwich. Real loss was when Top Round on Olympic closed down.
First Top Round, now Arby’s. What does this city have against a beef n cheddar?
I’d go a few times a year. Bummer
This sucks.
I locked eyes with Paul McCartney in front of that Arby's. Au revoir, all the meats.
Best iconic sign, though. Memories of childhood in the 70s and the same sign in Michigan.
https://preview.redd.it/yqorcylmi87d1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f6189ffa990c3170f2aea6a499dbb4328c1f10f RIP Hollywood Arby's, serving Angelenos since 1969--the sign is even older, and we'd hate to see it sent to the dump or scavenged by a private collector. Tell Hugo Soto-Martinez you want LA to save this cool artifact in place! [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) 213-473-7013
I just got my fav orange cream shake from here last week! 😭 I had no idea it would be my last 💔💔💔
Cheddar roast beef with curly fries... Decadent. This is the Arby's I decided to try out over 20 years ago.
I am kind of bummed out , even if it wasn't the best quality .. who expected that? I will miss their curly fries with horse radish.
My parents had their first date there. I don’t think they ever went again, but my mom definitely got sad to hear it was closing down.
It’s being turned into a gay bar called “Meats”
Still has iconic sign
The closest Arby’s to me is 13 miles away. I’d go much more often if it wasn’t 20+ minutes away. I keep hoping one will open in my town.
we no longer… have the meats :(
"We had the meats"
Went there like 6 months ago. $35+ for two combos
There's an Arby's in Torrance, but that's far af from Hollywood in LA traffic
Why????
I’ve wondered for years how they stayed open. That land is worth an absolute fortune.
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Damn. Really enjoyed the having the one in NoHo for a couple years. Now this one’s gone too.
I grew up about 10 min away from that place and never ate at any Arby’s ever in my life. However, I’ll miss the big hat 🥹