Ships Coffee Shop

The Ships menu included Shrimp Louie, Navy bean soup, Ship Shape Burger, Steak-O-Bob, Chicken Pot Pie and Hot Cake Sandwich.

Sunbeam toasters were located at tables and on the counters for customers to prepare their own toast.

[1] The Westwood (two part) Ships CS/CG (Coffee Shop/Chicken Galley) Wilshire Boulevard and Glendon Avenue, was the second to open (1958).

It closed on Thursday September 20, 1984 and was demolished shortly after, to make way for a 20 story office building.

The Culver City Ships at Washington Boulevard and Overland Avenue, was the first to open (Dec 1956), and last to close, at 4pm on Thursday 31 August 1995, although it re-opened on Friday 20 October (under new management, Matthew 'Matt' Shipman, son of Emmett Shipman) and finally closed on November 25, 1996 (after the lease expired).