Someone a year ago made a thread on this sick place and it received basically no views or upvotes so I'm reviving it since this is important. It show's a major CP and Child prostitute ring that was disguised as a coffee shop. This shows more evidence of pedophile restaurants/shops as fronts. This was in old Hollywood and the place is gone now.
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2100361
It was so famous celebrity Jackson Browne sang about it.
""Down at the golden cup
They set the young ones up
Under the neon light
Selling day for night"[Jackson Browne, Boulevard, 1980]"
The Los Angeles Times has a long deleted article that mentioned it.
"Many of the youngsters involved were recruited at hangouts for homosexuals particularly a Hollywood Blvd. coffee shop and a motel in Hollywood.”
The wiki also says this on it.
"Another source (now offline) called the Gold Cup "central casting" for the pornographic film industry."
There's only one picture of this place on the internet and it's on a few websites.
https://theboysofsunset.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gold-cup-clear.jpg
A former child prostitute who was sold there posted the picture on his pinterest.
"The Gold Cup where I used to hang out during my prostitution years. Good times."
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/3448137185109742/
This is the location of where it used to be in modern times.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hollywood+Blvd+%26+N+Las+Palmas+Ave,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90028/@34.1015156,-118.3361614,3a,75y,222.49h,90.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAPM4uXOGeqhOpadQi6L-UA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2bf2367212eab:0x991f2f6da9ab7d37!8m2!3d34.1015734!4d-118.3361566
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mrohm ago
Another coffee shop mentioned in Lexicon Devil was Arthur J's. There's currently a steakhouse by that name in Hollywood, but I have no idea if they are connected.
gamepwn ago
Just made a thread on it!
Factfinder2 ago
Seems likely connected.
From The Arthur J steakhouse Manhattan Beach website: http://thearthurj.com/
"Arthur J (as everyone, including his children and grandchildren called him) was introduced to the restaurant business through his father-in-law’s coffee shops in Chicago upon his return from military service.
He moved his family to Los Angeles in 1948 and quickly landed a position running the commissary at MGM Studios, where his infectious zeal was enjoyed by the elite Hollywood clientele. Hooked on providing hospitality, Arthur J opened the first (of what would be many) Ben Frank’s coffee shops in 1952, on the Sunset Strip.
In 1974, now joined by his son Tom, The French Quarter in West Hollywood and The Kettle in Manhattan Beach were launched, before founding the first Mimi’s Café in Anaheim in 1978. Now thirty-seven years later, Arthur J’s two younger sons, and his grandchildren carry on the family business of legendary hospitality, expressed most recently through this namesake dining room in the community where he planted roots."