est.1939
Paul Pink started his hot dog stand in 1939 when the depression was on and money was scarce. It was a large-wheeled pushcart and Pink's chili dogs were served with a large warm bun, oversized hot dog, mustard, onions and thick chili and sold for 10 cents each. Pink's hot dog wagon was located in "the country" among the rolling hills of weeds that was the corner of La Brea and Melrose over sixty-five years ago. "My mother found a hot dog cart for $50 in the employment section of the newspaper,"says Richard Pink. "They borrowed the $50 from my grandmother and my mother wheeled the hot dog cart 2 miles to the current Pink's location where they realized there were no utilities – so they got an extension cord, plugged it into a nearby hardware stores and that is how they fired up Pink's Hot Dogs in the early days."