You remember the Disney-meets-Bavarian-fetishist schnitzelhaus known as Lowenbrau Keller? No? That's likely because, like most Angelenos, you probably never went, and that's why the Black Forest-themed eatery, opened by set designer George Eder in '67, is finally shuttered. As I live right down the street, I pass by the corpse frequently and I've been seeing a lot of suspicious doin's going on outside of the now defunct 'Brau. So, worried that one of my favorite local spots might be getting the Koreatown karaoke makeover, I emailed the folks over at Eater to see what they knew.

Turns out, it's not much more than the Downtown News already reported: the keys have been turned over to The Wanton Group. Eater was able to suss out, however, that it will reopen as "Medusa" and it's as yet undetermined how much of the hallmark interior will remain. I can tell you from personal observation, however, that the exterior has received quite a bit of cleaning up, and the mighty lions that once flanked the driveway entrance have been moved to new cement pedestals guarding the front entrance. No telling what's going on inside, but here's a Flickr set of the interior that documents what it used to (and hopefully to some extent will still) look like.

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