Tiny Naylor's

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Tiny Naylor's was a restaurant chain in Southern California started in 1949 by William Wallace "Tiny" Naylor and later run by his son Biff Naylor. W.W. Naylor had previously owned more than a dozen Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California.Hess 2004, p.75 Naylor moved to Los Angeles and hired architect Douglas Honnold to design an eye-catching drive-in restaurant at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.Wanamaker 2009, p.90 Actor Humphrey Bogart compared the slanted canopy roof of the building to "a huge bird about to take off.".Wanamaker 2009, p.92 The restaurant featured Googie architecture and carhop service, and claimed to be the birthplace of the Patty melt.{{cite news |url=http://www.foodandwine.com/chefs/patty-melt-trend-vegetable-substitution |title=The Patty Melt Is Getting Its Moment |magazine=Food & Wine |date=June 15, 2017 |first=Elyse |last=Inamine}} Naylor died on August 17, 1959, while at the Del Mar racetrack.{{cite news |title=Tiny Naylor, Restaurant and Racing Figure Dies| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| location=Los Angeles| date=August 19, 1959}} The original location closed on March 11, 1984{{cite news |title= Tiny Naylor's Drive-in—The Sun Sets at Sunset and La Brea |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 9, 1984 |first=John |last=Dreyfuss}} and was demolished. The site is currently a shopping center.Williams 2005, p.309

Tiny Naylor's had a sister chain of Biff's Coffee Shops, named after W.W.'s son Biff Naylor. There were more than 40 Biff's and Tiny Naylor's locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.{{cite news|first=|date=November 30, 2012|title=Du-par's Bringing Famous West Coast Brand East|magazine=Bethesda Beat|url=https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/du-pars-bringing-famous-west-coast-brand-east/|access-date=2021-09-26}} In 1999 there was one Tiny Naylor's location remaining in Long Beach, California.{{cite web| title='I'll Have the Blue-Plate Special'| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-14-ca-22021-story.html/| website=Los Angeles Times| location=Los Angeles| date=October 14, 1999}} Biff Naylor came out of retirement to purchase the Du-par's restaurant chain in 2004. Biff's daughter Jennifer Naylor, a chef in Malibu, consulted on the revamped menu.{{cite web| title=This Just In: Du-par's opens in Oxnard| url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/03/this-just-in-du.html| website=Los Angeles Times| location=Los Angeles| date=March 5, 2009}} Biff Naylor sold Du-par's in 2018.{{cite news|last=Nichols|first=Chris|date=July 27, 2020|title=Some of L.A.'s Most Beloved Institutions Are Threatened with Extinction|website=Los Angeles magazine|url=https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/small-business-vanishing/|access-date=2021-09-26}}