Italian Villa - San Gabriel, CA - Vintage Restaurant - Women's T-Shirt favmov Mar Vista Bowl stood as

Mar Vista Bowl stood as a neighborhood anchor along Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles for decades

Families returned summer after summer

Downey knew its lanes by heart

Bold cyan text reads "HARRY ELLIS" above a high-contrast stencil-art portrait of Harry Ellis lounging back in a suit

flat canopy sits to the upper left

Italian Villa - San Gabriel, CA - Vintage Restaurant - Women's T-Shirt favmov Mar Vista Bowl stood asItalian Villa stood at 128 West Mission Drive in San Gabriel, a stretch of road rich with California's early mission heritage. Operating through the mid twentieth century, it carried the warmth of old world Italian dining into a community that made it a gathering place. Restaurants like this fed more than appetites, they anchored neighborhoods. Part of our Vintage Restaurant collection, celebrating the classic American menus of yesteryear. The