The Shutter

Per the Eastsider, it looks like the original Pioneer Chicken location has finally moved on to the big fryer in the sky: "... the long-time neighborhood restaurant, officially known as Pioneer Take Out, and an oily piece of Los Angeles-fast food history has closed up after nearly 40 years of business on Echo Park Avenue ... At its peak, during the early 1980s, O.J. Simpson and Lakers announcer Chick Hearn promoted the restaurant." [The Eastsider]