WINDSOR HILLS Happy Days to Health Food for This Landmark Renovation: A '50s-style coffee shop, the Wich Stand, gets new life as a Simply Wholesome store.: [Home Edition]

The resurrection of a vacant '50s-style coffee shop with the tilting blue roof and a 35-foot spire began last week during groundbreaking for a Windsor Hills health food store.

The Wich Stand, which was declared a historic landmark by Los Angeles County six years ago, also housed a cocktail lounge and featured carhop service in the parking lot on Slauson Avenue near Overhill Avenue. Percell Keeling, who owns the Simply Wholesome health food store across the street, bought the Wich Stand two years ago.

The restaurant, which opened in 1957, fell upon hard times in the mid-1980s...