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Originally Posted by Beaudry
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Beaudry!
1. ONE FOR THE ROAD.
I honestly have no recollection of this place. Not ringing any bells...
2. THE BLACK LITE!
I always wondered why they didn't put the
Black Lite in
Barfly! It was the
perfect,
quintessential Bukowski-style bar. Right in Bukowski's old neighborhood, too, right on Western Ave (1159 N, to be precise), less than a mile away from his home.
The people in there seemed to have walked right out of one of Bukowski's stories... I wonder if those kinds of people still exist, the old barflies, the horse betters, the aging, drunken, sad-luck dames... a bunch of short-story archetypes, congregated together to drown their sorrows.
I'll admit, this place became kind of a hangout for me. There were NO hipsters or anything like that there, only older, sad luck, working class drunkards. It made you feel like you walked right into one of Bukowski's old stories... I guess I did a lot of “slumming” there. Of course, drinks were dirt cheap. it was
definitely my favorite LA dive bar.
The building still stands, but sadly, it hasn't been the Black Lite for a long time.
3. THE RUMPUS ROOM.
I'm SURE I saw this place before! I just wish I could remember
where. For some reason, I'm thinking it was on a street that ran North-West... maybe Vermont or Normandie?
4. ???
No idea on this one. It almost looks too generic to identify. But at this point (especially after
Lorendoc discovered Yoshiko's) I'm pretty much convinced that there isn't ANY place in LA that you folks can't identify!
PS: Unless I'm mistaken (always a possibility!), the most recent “Yellow Pages” for Los Angeles in the City Directory is from 1942...
Is that really correct? Aren't there any newer Yellow Pages online for Los Angeles?