According to the La Jolla legend, it was at the La Plaza restaurant that Raymond Chandler once snubbed J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous Director of the FBI. Spotting Chandler at a table with his wife, Cissy, Hoover told a waitress to have the writer come to his table so that he might meet him. Chandler instructed the waitress that if Hoover wanted to meet him, he could leave his own table. Hoover was furious, and loudly told the people with whom he was eating that he could have Chandler ‘investigated.’