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The Ludlow Cafe

7/26/2017

 
The Ludlow Café, on the east end of Ludlow, California and facing old Route 66, has unfortunately finally succumbed. 

The café was run by Rex and Lilian Warnix from about the late 1930s until the early 1960s, but whether they were the ones who first built the café is uncertain.  Most of the property on the east end of Ludlow was acquired by Laurel and Cameron Friend about 1963 and they continued to operate the café in addition to the Ludlow Restaurant until they moved to Colorado about 1975.
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Although it has been abandoned, for decades the café remained relatively unscathed until about 2007 when the interior caught fire, either deliberately or by accident by travelers who were camped in the building.  The fire accelerated the deterioration of the building and, sadly, today it is only a pile of rubble.
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