in Hollywood to more spacious quarters in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, the new studio didn’t have a cafeteria. When Walt and his brother, Roy, moved their studio from its original location on Kingswell Ave. Not only Walt, but the whole crew of Disney animators frequented the Tam. It is on display in the Tam’s reception area.

This caricature of Lawrence Frank, drawn by Disney artist John Hench, was presented to Lawrence by Walt Disney in 1958. The two men loved entertaining people and shared the spark of creativity and innovation they became good friends. Most of all, it seems, Walt liked Lawrence Frank, and the feeling was mutual. Walt liked the Tam’s food, too simple but delicious fare that included hamburgers (still served daily) made according to a special recipe that took proprietor Lawrence L. We don’t know if it’s true, but some pundits speculate that Walt was so taken with the Tam that it inspired the look of the cottage occupied by Snow White and her little pals in the Disney Studio’s first feature film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” which premiered in 1937. Shared the spark of creativity and innovation In the late 1920s and throughout the ’30s, when Walt dined at the Tam O’Shanter nearly every day, it was, as it is today, an entertaining Scottish-themed place that harked back to other times, filled with cozy nooks and crannies and bursting with tartans, antiques, and memorabilia of Los Angeles’ early days. He surely would have been attracted to the Tam’s fanciful look, created by movie set designer Harry Oliver (who was later to win an Oscar) with a meandering roof, interior plaster walls made to resemble weathered stone, a fairy-tale-like fireplace and charred, exposed wooden ceiling beams. IT’S NOT SURPRISING that the Tam O’Shanter was one of Walt Disney’s favorite restaurants.

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