The McDonnell’s restaurant chain– run by Rusty McDonnell in the 30s and 40s and designed by iconic architect Wayne McAllister– couldn’t decide if it was L.A. modern or L.A. myth. Its Fairfax and Drive-In locations were geared toward an automotive city on the rise while its Huntington, Rancho, and Plantation outposts wrapped their menus in racial stereotype, Old California nostalgia, and booster postcards of Arcadian paradise.