El Cholo Cafe, Pasadena California

This restaurant chain began in 1922 as Sonora Cafe but in 1925 a diner, waiting for his meal, drew a figure of a man and called him El Cholo. The owner liked it so much, he changed the name and used the image as his logo. This location opened around 2000 but has since closed. The little neon sign depicting El Cholo is gone now too. It was on the cafe building on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA