Donut Hole: the drive-through tunnel that has attracted donut-lovers since 1968.

Since 1968, residents of Puente, California, have been satisfying their sweet cravings by driving right into a giant donut.
Not by chance called Donut Hole, is a special kind of drive through flanked by a fiberglass donut on each end, and the tunnel between the two giant donuts is home of a bakery window that serves up all kinds of delicious donuts, from glazed to chocolate frosted to coconut dusted.

It was the second of five locations opened by a franchise in 1963 and has been in continuous operation since its 1968 construction, serving as a famous landmark and a surviving example of the mimetic also known as “programmatic” or, more simply, “novelty”, an architecture style that was especially popular in Southern California from the 1920s through the 1960s.
In fact, with the rise of the car, businesses were looking for new ways to capture the interest of the increasing number of drivers on the road.
A simple sign wouldn’t do and, in addition to giant rooftop sculptures, some architects designed buildings in the very shape of their products, including tamale shops that looked like tamales, hot dog stands shaped like hot dogs, and so on. In short, a style where a building is designed to resemble the product it sells.
The La Puente location opened in 1968 as the second of five original locations and, despite the franchise went out of business in 1979, this building was not demolished.
While the rest of the Donut Hole franchises, founded by John Tindall, Ed McCreany, and Jesse Hood in 1963, have disappeared, the one on the corner of Amar Road and Elliot Avenue, the only one constructed into the tunnel of fried dough, is the sole survivor.
The drive-through is a popular spot still today, with some visitors citing its tradition of newlyweds driving through for good luck.

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