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The legendary Ye Coach And Horses dive bar in central LA is being forced to close by the start of August by the current landlord: The Samuel French Bookstore.
Doors opened to the pub in 1937 and has been a hit with locals ever since. The simplicity and British-meets-Hollywood style made the pub ever popular and profitable for many years.
The pub was a favourite with British Expats such as Richard Burton and Alfred Hitchcock and in the seventies was a favourite hangout for Jim Morrison.
More recently, the dive has also been a favourite to the likes of Quentin Tarantino who wrote ideas and scenes for the film Pulp Fiction on napkins in the bar.
The director also met English actor Tim Roth at the pub and discussed his performance in Resevoir Dogs over a few beers.
Locals and fans are determined to save the adored Hollywood joint which has been a major part of the Sunset Boulevard for more 70 years.
The owner, 85-year-old Jane Grant is known to have been a bit eccentric and spontaneous and apparently used to randomly fire employees which some have speculated to be the cause to the decline of the bar in recent years.
Passionate internet campaigns are trying to salvage the struggling pub but the rent for the location has risen to an astonishing $8000, which many believe to be a ridiculous sum for a small bar.
Many offers from other potential owners have been put forward to buy the location but fans are concerned that it may be modernised and that the little slice of LA history could completely disappear like many other places before it.
But, two savvy potential buyers are planning to buy the bar and preserve it, to keep the extraordinary place open as it has been and commemorate events such as Tarantino’s backstory.
The future of the bar is uncertain but the bar’s regulars hope the English themed bar will not call last orders.