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Apr 28, 2023 · Officially designated as the region’s oldest bar in continual operation, Alhambra Cocktail Lounge first opened in San Pedro in 1904 and has existed in the current form since 1936.
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Dec 30, 2023 · Coles diptych. By the 1920s, downtown Los Angeles was “booming”, and Cole’s restaurant would become “a hangout for gangsters and politicians and the gals that danced in the burlesque houses...
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- Musso & Frank Grill. Restaurants. Steakhouse. Hollywood. price 3 of 4. Open since 1919, the Musso & Frank Grill is Hollywood's oldest restaurant, a steak-and-cocktails joint formerly favored by innumerable celebrities, beginning with silent movie stars like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, as well as Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor, on-and-offscreen lovebirds Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio.
- Frolic Room. Bars. Dive bars. Hollywood. price 1 of 4. In business since 1934 and with one of the finest neon signs in all of L.A., the Frolic Room remains what it's always been: a straightforward, friendly little room in which to get loaded with others of a similar mindset, a neighborhood hangout in an area without many of those, and a bar not for dilettantes but drinkers.
- The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Restaurants. American. Beverly Hills. price 4 of 4. Even if you're not a Hollywood VIP trying to score a deal over your eggs Benedict, you'll probably find your Sunday brunch at the Polo Lounge pretty glamorous anyway.
- Tom Bergin's. Bars. Pubs. Central LA. price 2 of 4. Open since 1936, Tom Bergin's Public House has been gracing us with their exceptional Irish coffee and all around excellence for nearly 80 years, serving as a gathering place for the neighborhood—even back when stars like Bing Crosby and Cary Grant would frequent the bar.
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- Museum of The American Cocktail
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- The First Commercial Winery in Los Angeles
- The First Downtown Los Angeles Breweries
- Bars, Speakeasies, and Prohibition
- After Prohibition – Depression Era and Tiki Bars
- Historic Bars to Get A Cocktail in Los Angeles
- Authentic and Semi-Authentic Los Angeles Speakeasies
- Historic Los Angeles Hotel Bars
The event took place at the Lost Property Bar on Hollywood and Vine, by the Museum of the American Cocktail. It is a division of the National Food & Beverage Foundation. The lecture was titled “Imbibing LA: Boozing it Up in the City of Angels – From Sacred Wines to Tiki Bars” Our lively and alcohol-influenced discussion was led by culinary historia...
The Native Californian Indians had never tasted alcohol until the Spaniards arrived with the Franciscan priests who built 21 missions along the El Camino trail from San Diego to Sonoma. The first bottles of wine came from Spanish grapes at the San Juan Capistrano Mission in 1778 for religious ceremonies. Spain didn’t want the inhabitants of Baja an...
Jean-Louis Vignes was a Frenchman who had been living in the Sandwich Islands. He arrived at Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1827 and started California’s first non-religious winery where Union Station is now in 1831. He called it “El Aliso” because a huge sycamore tree grew on the property. Alisois French for Sycamore. Angelinos called Vignes “Don Luis D...
There were around 35 breweries in the early days of Los Angeles owned by German and Bavarian immigrants. The oldest one was located at 20 3rd St. near Main and was called The New York Brewery. (1854-1887) Christopher and/or Henry Kuhn (not sure) are listed as an owner. It was later taken over by Philip Lauthlater. John Murat established the Gambrin...
One of the first bars in downtown Los Angeles was called The Union Bar. It was located at 3rdand Central. Prohibition clobbered the Los Angeles economy because much of it depended on alcohol consumption. The N. Cucamonga Winerypoured gallons of wine down the sewers in Downtown Los Angeles. That didn’t stop Los Angeles from building a thriving under...
The first period of creative cocktails was a reaction to the Hollywood acting community. Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt worked as a motion picture set designer and would steal set pieces that depicted the South Pacific. He opened the Don the Beachcomberbar and restaurant in 1933 on McCadden Place in Hollywood. It was a Tiki Bar and he kept it stocke...
Enjoy a dry martini at the famous Musso & Frank Grill(1919) at 6667 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Have an Irish coffee at Tom Bergin’s(1936) at 840 S Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Order an Old-Fashioned at the Hollywood Frolic Room (1930) at 6245 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 next to the Pantages Theater. You can’t miss its col...
There are speakeasy-style drinking establishments in Los Angeles. Some are vintage and others are designed to be modern-dayspeakeasies. They include: Townhouse ( 1915) at 52 Windward Ave, Venice, CA 90091 – This old nightspot has underground catacombs and caves that were used to transport illegal liquor. The Del Monte Speakeasyis located downstairs...
Los Angeles has several early 20th-century-era hotels with cool lounges if you want to enjoy a cocktail in Los Angeles. 1. Hollywood Roosevelt (1927) at 7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. It was the home of the first Academy Awards ceremony. The Library Bar serves handcrafted and unusual mixed drinks. Teddy’s Baris where you can get a Mosc...
- The Starwood. 8151 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood (map) In the mid-1970s, there were few live music clubs in Hollywood apart from the Troubadour and the Whisky a Go-Go, and even those venues booked a lot of cover bands.
- The Palomino. 6907 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood (map) The fabled mother church of L.A. country music (now Le Monge Banquet Hall) was opened in 1949 by acclaimed Western swing bandleader Hank Penny and quickly became a world-famous hot spot that featured every major midcentury country star.
- The Masque. 1655 N. Cherokee Ave., Hollywood (map) There were no places for bands in L.A.’ s new punk scene to play in the late 1970s, so Scottish immigrant Brendan Mullen began putting on shows in August 1977 in a run-down, bare-bones basement underneath the Pussycat Theater, which was reached through an alley entrance just off Cherokee Avenue.
- Madame Wong’s. 949 Sun Mun Way, Chinatown (map) For a brief but crucial period in L.A. music history, from 1978 to 1985, a Polynesian-themed Chinese restaurant doubled as one of the hottest rock clubs in town, playing host to a who's who of punk, new wave and power-pop bands: X, The Go-Go’s, The Motels, Oingo Boingo, The Knack, The Police.
Apr 5, 2017 · Apr 5, 2017. Souvenir photo folder from the Rhythm Room. Though you may have never heard of it, the Rhythm Room nightclub operated for decades in the lower level of the Hotel Hayward at the...
Joe Jost’s (ca 1924) Established in 1924 as a barber shop/pool hall, Joe Jost’s is a Long Beach icon. It claims it is the oldest continually serving tavern west of the Mississippi. That’s questionable to say the least, but what isn’t is its status among locals. This place is legendary, and the people that frequent the bar absolutely love it.