Inside LA Stage History: The Burbank Theatre & Oliver Morosco
By Julio Martinez From July 1943 until August 1949, I grew up in downtown Los Angeles, where my father managed the twelve restaurants in Downtown LA's Whelan's Drug Stores. He was headquartered at the main store, located in the Pacific Electric building at Sixth and Main Streets. When Pacific Electric closed down in the late 1950s, Julio Sr. opened the Stage Coach Café across the street inside the Trailways Bus dep…