Boardner's by La Belle

Boardner's by La Belle sits on North Cherokee Avenue, recognizable by a prominent neon marquee that glows above its entrance on this quiet side street off Hollywood Boulevard. The establishment occupies the Cherokee Building, a structure that has housed various ventures since nineteen twenty-seven, including a hair salon that reportedly served as a front for an illegal speakeasy. In nineteen forty-two, Steve Boardner took over the space, moving his own bar operation here in January nineteen forty-four.