
THE POSTWAR WORLD 1950–2000III
POPULUXE: THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE 1946–19615
TAIL O’ THE PUP
TAIL O’ THE PUP
Los Angeles, California, USA
Milton Black (1905–1970), Architect
Los Angeles, California, USA
1946
For more than six decades, the Los Angeles
streetscape was enhanced and made memo-
rable by an iconic three-dimensional sign that
functioned solely as a hot dog stand that cap-
tured the folly of a city that has always intrigued
and surprised the public’s imagination.
Built in 1946, Tail o’ the Pup was a small,
food stand that was a prime example of novelty
architecture built throughout America in the
1950s and literally formed in the shape of the ...