There is a Facebook page dedicated to vintage LA icons. It is run be an iron-fisted woman who must be agreed with under all circumstances, but if you can overlook her, the posts there offer up cool nostalgia for anybody born and raised in Southern California. This sign was mentioned recently, and it reminded me how little attention I paid to the Sunset Strip at the age when most others cared about it. I knew the owner of one of the hottest clubs on the strip (a former child star who invested wisely) who offered me VIP access whenever I wanted, and I never took him up on it. I did go to the Irish bar on the Strip a few times with my friends, but we always left when it transformed from a bar to a club. Tower Records never appealed to me; the personnel were way too full of themselves for me to want to buy anything from them. In my TV days, I briefly had a corner office at the end of the Strip (the City National building), but I was never wild about the view. In hindsight, I guess I missed out on that edgy rock scene, and it is too late now to try to capture it (people who do go clubbing have seen THAT middle-aged guy in the club... I just can't bring myself to become that sad caricature). To those who went to the Whiskey, the sign is a symbol of those days. The cruising, the music, the drugs, the sex.
I think I just depressed myself. On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > The original pink neon sign from LA's iconic Whisky A Go Go turned up at > an auction in Maine, of all places... went for about $48k. > > Billboard > <http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7669706/whisky-go-go-neon-marquee-sign-auction-price?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Digital%20Update&utm_term=biz_digital> > (link) > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
