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That sucks!! I love Bob's Big Boy!!
I'll take the Big Bob's Combo with Blu dressing please.............. They
rocked!!
Wow. Maybe it's time to write a sad song.................;(
Billy
---- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
> Thanks for this post, Kim. It's great to hear that there was some kinda surf
history in the Pasadena / Goondale area. I regularly went to that drive up at
Bob's #1 on Colorado in the '70's. It ain't no more.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kim Sweeney
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:09 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Big Tiki Dude - Maybe more than you wanted to know
>
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>
> >>>Jeff(bigtikidude)
> >>>p.s. I'd love to go back to the 60's or 80's to see what those
> >>>shows and turnouts were like.
>
> Big Tiki Dude,
> I can tell you about one of the venues, and the turnouts in 1963-4-5-6.
> This was our local scene, up in San Gabriel Valley.
>
> The Pasadena Civic Auditorium had a Dance every Saturday Night.
> We called it "The Civic"
> It was open to all high school kids in the area.
> Pasadena, John Muir(Altadena-my school), San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, La
> Canada, La Cresenta, Arcadia, Glendale, South Pasadena, Eagle Rock, San
> Gabriel High Schools etc.
>
> The Civic would feature 3 bands for the evening.
> The house band was called "The Diaboliques" and then two other bands
> Sometimes SURF (mostly) and sometimes R&B Like, Righteous Bros, Ike and
> Tina, Dick and DeeDee, Thee Midnighters.
> The rules were, had to have a Student Body Card from one of these high
> schools, dresses for girls, slacks(no jeans) for boys, shirt tucked IN
> And a tie, or you could not get in. Of course no smoking or drinking.
> The crowd inside was easily 500 kids or more.
> You would have to park blocks away. And as you approached the hall,
> You first heard the BASS and then the drums and then the reverbed
> guitars
> And most usually a sax, sometimes up to three saxes.
> What a sound! It was held in the Ballroom, behind the Auditorium.
>
> I remember seeing the Pyramids, they would start off wearing Beatle wigs
> And halfway through the first song, they would tear off their wigs, and
> They were BALD! The first Skinheads? This was the times of Bushy Bushy
> Blonde Hairdoos...Peroxide ran rampant. Long Shaggy blonde hair.
> All the Surf Bands played The Civic. The Nomads were regulars. The
> Esquires.
> These band names are from my memory, there were plenty of bands!
>
> So I guess what I am trying to emphasize is that "turnouts" were not a
> Problem. Everybody came to these dances, even if they had no intention
> of
> Coming in and dancing. It was a place to "pick up chicks" and "meet a
> cute guy" The traffic out front was a non-stop flow of cars that cruised
> from "Bobs Big Boy" Drive-in in East Pasadena, along Colorado Boulevard,
> whip a circle around The Civic and then continue on Colorado out through
> Eagle Rock into Glendale and then drive through THAT "Bob's Big Boy"
> (The original) and then back again, over and over.
> And I do mean every car would drive through the drive-in, too! 16 miles
> of
> Bumper to bumper cars and kids.
> But wait! That's not all! You could get into this cruising activity all
> over
> The Southland. Whittier Boulevard from Downtown out to Whittier, or
> Lankershim Blvd. In The Valley, or Hollywood Blvd from Hollywood to
> Malibu, or Hawthorne Blvd., Rosecrans, the Beach Cities Hermosa,
> Manhattan and Redondo, home of the Belairs and the Crossfires, and on
> into Orange County
> To Dick Dale territory. This was going on everywhere!
> And to finalize this review, forty years later, the surf bands I saw all
> Had these great steps they would do while they were playing. There would
>
> Be a line of like, three of them, next to each other, take a few steps
> forward, Dip their guitar/sax down, three steps back, raise their
> instrument, repeat.
> All in a line, all in unison. Wearing their suits, this looked really
> cool.
> I have not seen to much of this activity in film, but every band had
> their
> Own style of moving on stage.
>
> Aloha to you all,
> Kim in Kohala
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