Extinct music clubs in L.A. What are they now? (Los Angeles: real estate, neighborhood)

[Fontucky]

Palomino = long gone.

[Island_OnThe_Land]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

It had to be 68, 69 or 70, because Parsons wasn't a Burrito all that long.

That must have been a classic gig.

I saw Dr. John there in 1991....the place closed around 1995.

[trunky]

Those flyers are awesome!

[Charles]

Originally Posted by DowntownVentura

How about the good ol' Topanga Corral

Yep, we used to go there too. I think it burned down.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by drunk on kool aid

Didn't know the Country Club was a movie theater. I can't remember where the projection booth would have been placed. So is the Country Club still around?

Whoops, by bad. The Country Club was the Sav-On a couple doors down from the Reseda Theater.

Here's a shot of the theater looking east from Sherman Way and Reseda, 1963




And here on Google Street View, you can see the same facade of each:

Sav-On to Country Club, and now called Iglesias De Restauracion????

reseda - Google Maps

Reseda Theater, sadly boarded up and ugly:

reseda - Google Maps

[majoun]

Originally Posted by drunk on kool aid

Pretty sure the structure is gone:

Raji's [on Sunset – what a cool venue, despite the giant column which managed to block every possible sightline to the stage—how punk is that? Now a parking lot?

On Hollywood Blvd. condemned and torn down after the Northridge earthquake.

Club Lingerie [classic venue on Sunset]

The building's still there, not sure what it's used for.

The Shamrock [A nice, divey bar somewhere in L.A.—it was on a corner]

On Hollywood Blvd. east of Vermont. Now a strip club.

Al's Bar [on Traction or Hewitt, just east of Little Tokyo. Really painful to see this one go. What's become of the space? Victim of gentrification?]

It went away before the gentrification started.

Jabberjaw [3711 W Pico Blvd; what's become of this icon? Great arcade with Tempest and one of the few all-ages venues. Progenitor to The Smell]

Casualty of the riots?

The Gaslight [cool bar somewhere in Hollywood]

Now used as storage space for the Ivar Theatre next door, which has been converted into a dance club.

Music Machine [12220 Pico Blvd, West L.A.]
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Converted to retail

Cathay De Grande

Selma & Ivar. Sitting vacant waiting for a new tenant to move in. More vacant commercial property in L.A.

Starwood

Burned down and replaced with an ugly mini-mall. The movie theatre next door is also gone

The Masque

Torn down

[Charles]

While researching the Starwood (I didn't know it burned down), I came upon another Wikipedia page with the histories of many of the clubs mentioned in this thread.

Category:Nightclubs in California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interestingly, the Wikipedia article mentioned that Starwood was closed to do too much underage drinking. We used to drink in the parking lot across the street (I was probably 19 or 20) and the cops (LASD) and make us pour our beers out. Drive back to the valley around 2AM (and I remember even then traffic on the 405 in the middle of the night) and hit Dennys. Good old days.

[Island_OnThe_Land]

Originally Posted by Charles

Whoops, by bad. The Country Club was the Sav-On a couple doors down from the Reseda Theater.

reseda - Google Maps

Another great spot in the same block of Sherman Way was Be Bop Records which was a hip record store/gallery space that played host to live mostly "unplugged" shows (before that term was used). Sort of like the Valley's version of McCabes.... Be Bop was there from 1982 to 1990. Really cool place.

The acts they hosted included: Los Lobos, the Minutemen, Jane's Addiction, Firehose, to name a few.

The owner is an artist in Calfornia and has this link on MySpace about his days running Be Bop....

http://www.myspace.com/bebopreseda

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Island_OnThe_Land

Another great spot in the same block of Sherman Way was Be Bop Records which was a hip record store/gallery space that played host to live mostly "unplugged" shows (before that term was used). Sort of like the Valley's version of McCabes.... Be Bop was there from 1982 to 1990. Really cool place.

The acts they hosted included: Los Lobos, the Minutemen, Jane's Addiction, Firehose, to name a few.

The owner is an artist in Calfornia and has this link on MySpace about his days running Be Bop....

MySpace - Richard / Bebop Records - 63 - Male - Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA - myspace.com/bebopreseda

Couple records stores I frequented in that time frame, early 1980s was Slipped Disk and Moby Disk. One was on Ventura near VNB I think and the other on Roscoe east of Sepulveda I think.

While punk and new wave were really big then, there were some Los Angeles based progressive bands, The Fents for example, sort of on a second wave of fusion/prog after the early 1970s first wave, that we'd go check out in different venues around town. One of the guys in one of those records stores was a real prog rock expert and pointed us to all sorts of good bands and records.

Another place I don't think is around anymore is Pasquales in Malibu. We'd watch jazz there, you could hear the waves crashing in the background, real nice.

[Mr.Bungle]

Man, last time I went to the Reseda Country Club was maybe 1997. I saw Hoobustank (it used to be spelled like that) and Black Eyed Pea's (pre Fergie) there and some other rap acts which was odd. I also saw the Incubus guys hanging out there watching Hoobustank. I understand they used to have boxing matches there? I don't know, I never went back.

I also remember seeing 2 chicks in a row OD at Club Lingerie. Once again, probably 10+ years ago.

Is the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park still around? I remember that was sort of the mandatory (unofficially) to play before moving on to other gigs. I saw many bands there and even played there myself.

The Key Club used to be called Billboard Live.

Most every venue I went to is probably still there. I only started going to shows in 96.