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From KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson and this is Unfictional, a program of True Stories, intimate

documentaries and audio cinema. Today on the program Terry and Clifford. There's an unusual

restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. It's called Clifton's Cafeteria.

It opened in 1935 and it was unusual because trees with thick trunks grew up between tables.

Bolders and ferns sprouted from the walls and railings.

There was a chapel in the basement. It used to be part of a group of restaurants that were owned by a man named Clifford Clinton, without it out a very significant figure in Los Angeles history, and somebody you need to know about before we listen to today's

story Clifford Clinton was a Christian man with a strong sense of right and wrong

this was during the Great Depression and Clifford considered it his Christian duty to take care of poor people.

If you couldn't afford a meal at Clifton's, you could just pay what you were able.

And his strict moral code made him famous for rooting out corruption.

Here he is in 1939 on a radio program that was sponsored by Clifton's.

The people's voice comes to you four times daily. It is compiled under direction of Clifford

E. Clinton. The magnitude of a crime is measured by the He went after police officers and government officials who took bribes and looked the other way from

prostitution and gambling. Clifford became a target because of that. His house in Los

Felis was actually bombed at one point, but no one was hurt.

Clifford didn't back down though.

He helped get the mayor recalled and forced the police chief to resign.

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