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| Randy's Donuts | |
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 Randy's in 2005 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Restaurant, doughnut shop, bakery |
| Architectural style | Novelty architecture |
| Town or city | Inglewood, California |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 33°57′42″N 118°22′13″W / 33.9618°N 118.3703°W |
| Opened | 1953 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Henry J. Goodwin |
| Website | |
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Randy's Donuts is a bakery and a landmark building in Inglewood, California which is near Los Angeles International Airport. It is built in a style that dates to a period in the early 20th century that saw a proliferation of programmatic architecture throughout Southern California. This style had its heyday from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. By the 1950s however, the trend of designing structures in the shape of the product sold there had changed to focus on signs rather than architecture itself. Randy's is represented by a giant doughnut on the roof of an otherwise ordinary drive-in that is a dedicated doughnut bakery. The building was designed by Henry J. Goodwin.[1]
Colossal donut signs atop Randy's stores vary in size. Most locations use a 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m) diameter version that sits atop the building and faces an intersection. In Roadside Giant by Brian and Sarah Butko, the Weintraubs climbed on top of the doughnut with a tape measure and confirmed the measurements for the authors. The Bellflower location, however, features a smaller version of the doughnut on top of a pole in front of the building. This may be 23 feet (7.0 m) in diameter, as is widely reported.
The 24-hour drive-in is at 805 West Manchester Boulevard and it intersects with La Cienega Boulevard. It is near the Manchester Boulevard off-ramp of the San Diego Freeway (I-405).
- ^ "LA Conservancy, Randy's Donuts". Retrieved 18 June 2022.