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Will the real Bob please stand up?
---- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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