Knoll's Black Forest Inn, a fixture on Wilshire in Santa Monica since 1982, closes for good on Saturday. Chris Nichols posts from the Pasadena Star-News on the LottaLiving website:

Regarded by many as the best German restaurant in the Los Angeles area for decades, Knoll's started in 1960 as "a small coffee shop with just a counter and a few stools' at 124 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica.

The Knolls expanded over the years and eventually moved in 1982 to their present site.

A four-star awardee by the California Restaurant Writers Association, Knoll's not only has excelled in its authentic traditional German fare, but has kept up with modern changes in the food of Germany. Swabian dumplings with a variety of sauces, a smoked trout salad and smoked salmon soup are just a few of their newer German items.

The L.A. Conservancy Modern Committee, which lives online at that site, also is seeking anyone who knows the original color scheme of the Foster's Freeze signage that used to be all over Southern California. The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati is trying to restore a sign from suburban L.A.

Somewhat related: Friends of the Raymond Theatre in Pasadena let fly today an urgent call for funds to help save the theatre from being gutted while a court case is being appealed.

(Edited 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 25)