Plus, the newly rehabbed Formosa Cafe dives into Hollywood’s past.
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Rehabbed Formosa Cafe Takes Visitors Deep Into Hollywood's Past

Los Angeles has a complicated relationship with the past. Many longtime Angelenos have grown accustomed to finding their built history plastered over or leveled in a blink. And like so many other historic places in the city, it at one time looked like West Hollywood’s venerable Formosa Cafe—a cozy, dimly lit, scruffy hideaway—might be lost as well.

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