Carney's is a hot dog and burger restaurant in a yellow
Union Pacific
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rail car on
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in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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. It was brought to the site in 1978. A second Carney's, also in train cars, is located on
Ventura Boulevard
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in
Studio City
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. A crackdown on weekly biker meetings at that location caused controversy.
Pulitzer-prize-winning LA restaurant critic
Jonathan Gold
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put Carney's on his list of 99 essential Los Angeles restaurants and wrote that, "Carney’s is a restaurant in the real Los Angeles tradition, two ancient Union Pacific cars transported to West Hollywood at great expense and mounted overlooking the
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, where a mad parade of bass players and catalog models, hustlers and high school kids, movie guys and industry suits stare out the windows of the old bus, onto the profusion of German tourists and Japanese cars that flow down this section of Sunset so steadily that after a few beers and a
chili dog
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or two, the train can appear to be lurching down the track."
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movie critic Bob Shaw was fond of Carney's burgers.
[Mark Pitt]
Bob Shaw KTVU movie critic, dead at 56
April 14, 2009
Carney's serves a chocolate-dipped frozen banana on a stick for dessert.
[Jonathan Gol]
Chili Con Carney's
On the hot dog express February 01, 2007 LA Weekly
Carney's was featured in the video games ''
Midnight Club: Los Angeles'' and ''
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'' (as "Last Train in Los Santos" restaurant).
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List of hamburger restaurants
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List of hot dog restaurants
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This list includes restaurants, fast food restaurants and hot dog stands that primarily serve hot dogs and related food items.
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{{Restaurants of Los Angeles County, California
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