Good morning, it’s Friday, June 19 (Juneteenth) and you can expect morning clouds to surrender to the sun by afternoon.
1. What gets left behind at the Ivy?
India Wolfe, who runs the Ivy with her parents, models a vintage leather jacket from the restaurant’s lost and found. (Photo by Julia Wick/L.A. Material)
A handgun. A Gucci cardigan. Countless clothing-stuffed shopping bags. A not-insignificant amount of cocaine. A single, red-heeled Christian Louboutin shoe. Michael Jackson’s black fedora. A Rolex. And so many sunglasses.
You can tell a lot about a place from its detritus. And the castoffs left behind at the Ivy — an L.A. hotspot for more than four decades — include both the louchely glamorous and the quotidian. Along with the aforementioned items, diners also regularly forget credit cards, cell phones and designer handbags.
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