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You can write a happy surf tune about the Bob's that still exist in Glendale and
Burbank. I only said that the original Bob's location on Colorado is gone.
-Marty
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From: Jeff
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Bobs big boy, was... Maybe more than you wanted
to know
Billy, The Bob's Chain is not all gone, there are still a few
around.
I know of One up In the High Dessert(Hesperia area)off the 15 and 395
freeways. So if you are ever on your way to Vegas, stop off there.
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , scanman@a... wrote:
>
> 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 <mctippens@e...> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > >>>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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