December 25, 2024 • 30 mins
Almost L.A. Zoo // Favorite Cereals // Dimples & Dive Bars PT 1 // Dimples & Dives PT 2
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You can't see everything that the La County Fair has
to offer in one day.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's almost really tough, especially if you want to do
any of the rides and on the middle and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But it used to be great because when when my
daughter was you know, and she loved that. You know,
she loves those Orange County Fair the La County Fair.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's just you get such a big smile and or
it takes you know, take her friends with us. But
when when we first started going out there, you know,
two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, they still
had horse racing. So I would spend the entire day
at the track where they had horse racing, and my
wife and daughter would go on rides and eat food
and all that stuff. And everybody won. Everybody was a winner.
(00:48):
Yeah that's what he came out happy. Yeah, but it
was great. Then they sold those dates to either you know,
San Anita or Los Alamados, and now they have no
horse racing out there. My grandma used to do it.
She would be there while we were like walking around,
so we kept going and check on her while she's
betting horses. Was she a rat track or track rat? Yeah,
she went like every couple of every couple of weeks.
(01:10):
Oh that's great, Wow, that's awesome. Yeah. Somebody asked me today,
don't remember who it was. How often I go to
the track. I'm like, we usually only when they're open,
you know, slide out there. But I probably go about
three or four times a month. You know. Sometimes I'll
go Saturday and Sunday. If I lose on Saturday, I'll
go back Sunday to get my money back. And that
(01:31):
sometimes doesn't happen. And at this point, so it doesn't
go with you at all. No, because I burned her
out when she was younger. I took her to the
track every weekend, and she loved it because you played
the infield with the other kids, or you know, I
cruised around with me. But I remember the one time
where my wife got really pissed off, and she doesn't
get that pissed that often. But I said, I was
(01:52):
taking Sophie to the zoo, and we went to the zoo,
and we were planning on going to the zoo, the
La Zoo, and it was everyone gets in for free day,
and so there were like ten thousand people waiting to
get in line, waiting in line to get in, and
I'm like, I don't want to do this. It's hot outside.
I'll just go to the track with her. So she's
(02:14):
about six or seven, and I drag her out to
Santa Anita. And you know, in my defense, she saw
animals either way, so you know, pretty horsey ding dong.
So I'm I'm out there, and Mike Willman, who runs publicity,
out there, he said, Hey, the guy that was going
to present the trophy and the feature race in the
(02:35):
eighth race, he got into an accident or something happened
at home and he couldn't make it. Will you give
the trophy out for the eighth race? I said, yeah,
sure right, I got nothing going on. So the eighth
race wins. I think it was Doug O'Neill's force to win.
And then over the loudspeaker, they say, Ladies and gentlemen,
now presenting the award for you know, the San Jose
(02:56):
Handicap or San Gabriel Handicap. Ladies. John mcarm on K
five ladies and gentlemen. Tim Conway dread right, you know,
the eight people know who know who I was, were
out there and I'm presenting the trophy to the guy,
to Doug O'Neill and the owner of the horse, I
think it's Paul Readham. And my phone rings and my
(03:17):
wife said, hey, how's the zoo And I said it's
going pretty good. You know, it's a little crowded because
it was free day, but it's kind of cool, which
was true. That's true, right, And she says, she goes,
that's that's weird because I'm watching TV and you're on
TV and I left the TV on TVG when I left,
(03:39):
and she's now watching me give away the trophy in
the feature race. I can't even imagine her watching that
and what and she and she was cleaning the house
and just happened to look up and see and then
she goes, hey, that's my husband and daughter on TV.
And I thought they were at the zoo, right, And
(03:59):
she goes, you're not the zoo, right. I'm like, well,
we tried to go to the zoo, right, but it
just the attempt was made. It's not like you that's right,
Lieder s that's right. I tried. Did you try to
pull the Hey, it's my kid too.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's so uh, it's the same story as when your
dad was supposed to take you to church.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh yeah, wait we end up at the Wincheles and
my mom walked into Wincheles and she's like, oh boy,
never I never got to go with my dad to
church again. It really doesn't fall for from the tree.
It doesn't. And then when I got home, you know,
my wife was pissed because I'd lied to her. Right
and and she grabs Sofia and Sophia's hands. She smells
(04:41):
her hands. She goes, why do her hands smell like cigarettes?
I'm like, oh, she might have picked up a snipe
or a you know, a cigarette butt out there. You
know kids do, they'll pick up stuff. And she goes, yeah,
but both she goes, both of her hands smell like cigarettes.
I'm like, well, I don't know. I mean, so, did
you pick up a cigarette while you're out there? And
she goes, yeah, I think I picked up a wrote
And she goes put her clothes smell like my women,
(05:02):
are you are you accusing me of letting her smoking,
of letting her smoke in at the track because I didn't.
She did not not smoke a cigarette. The implication did
you did give our child a cigarettes and believe it
was getting wronged. But then she started, you know, she
started kindergarten, like I don't know, like three months later.
(05:25):
And in kindergarten they have all the parents there and
there's probably about thirty kids in the class, and like
eighty ninety parents, you know, grandparents, uncles, you know, a
lot of a lot of people show up to see
their kid go to school for the very first time.
And I was there, and so missus F was her name.
She was a long name, but they called her Missus F.
And she had given a speech to the whole class
(05:49):
and all the parents. And in the speech I remember,
she said, if your kid comes home with an art project,
don't throw the art project in the trash in front
of the kid. And I and my wife, I go,
who does that? Who when the kid comes home with
an art project, who throws it in the trash? And
the teacher heard me ask that, and she goes By
(06:10):
the way, it happened twice last year where the kid
came to school the next day and said, Mom, through
my gift that I made for Mom, for Mother's Day.
She threw it in the trash in front of me.
I'm like, wow, that is a horrible human being.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then right after that, she asked the kids what
they did for summer break, and so sends up.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And says, dad took me to the track. Well. I
Then she said, are there any questions? And I raised
my hand and I could see my daughter put her
head down on her desk, going, please, please, don't let
this guy speak. Oh God, almighty. So she points to
me and she goes, yes, sir, and I said, this
is my daughter, Sophia. And I was just wondering if
(06:53):
there's a no smoking section in this class, because she
took all summer to quit smoking. And this was the
reaction from the forty five parents and the thirty students
or eighty parents and thirty students in the class. After
I said she picked, she chose all summer to quit smoking.
(07:14):
She finally accomplished, accomplished it is there a no smoking
section in this class? And here's the reaction. Nobody left crickets.
And I said to her afterwards, I said, hey, missus f
(07:35):
I said, what's going on here? I said, that's not
bad material, but yet nobody reacted to it, and I said,
what's going on? And she says, well, you can't make
jokes nowadays about kids and smoking, Like, well, sure you can.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I just did that was pretty good with She said,
nahcause you can't do that. And I said, that's where
we are in life. I said, okay, it be a
long year, a long year with this crew because they
got a lot more of these wait.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Chicken on deck. Long year. Man.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Growing up, I was a huge Frosted Flakes guy. Oh yeah,
my dad was into that stuff. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, well, Raisin brand more than Frosted Flakes, but they're
the same.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah. I like frosted flakes. And also the fact that
you can get them anywhere wasn't a specialty, you know
Cereal that everybody had him. Do you go back? You
and I go back? Uh steph, fush. You're a little
too young, but you remember like going to like a
hotel or motel and they had the little box little
boxes and you'd cut open the box and pour the
milk right there had a little perforation.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You could open it up and then you can open
up the bag and eat it all right in that little.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Box if you're right enough. Right, And then the reason
it looked like they tasted better out of that little box,
the right was about it. And then the milk leaked
all over you and it was hell after that. Yeah,
but that would say, yeah, that's my frosted flakes. Frosted flakes,
my go to cereal. That is old that's right, right, Yeah,
they were, they were well, I thought they were really good. Bellio,
(09:17):
what is your go to cereal? We've never discussed that
with you? She in there, No, she's in the can. Yeah,
I think so pushing that cereal? What about my go
to cinnamon toast crunch?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, I think that's a yeah, that's the kids the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I would say, that's that's definitely grown. And one I
always forget about, which I gets randomly or centism will
have it is life. That's just a solid because it's
just sweet enough and its life is good. Yeah. Yeah,
you guys are those flakes too? They're like corn kind
of almost like it's like the square, yeah, with holes
in it. Yeah, but that's also the kind of cereal
you can just eat out of the box like chicks.
(09:56):
Yeah for sure. Yeah. I always eat cereal dry. I
hate when it gets soggy. I always just eat it. Try. Yeah,
you eat it fast man, Yeah, yeah, I can't stand
soggy cereal.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The key is eating just fast enough to where before
they get before they get soggy.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yet it still flavors the milk. Oh, you drink the milk.
But one of the best parts are you are you?
Are you insane? I have thrown out. I can't believe
we've ever met that you would drink that crap. After
you throw the milk out? Oh, do you pour it
back here in the milk? The milk goes out. As
soon as the cereal gets soggy, the milk and the
(10:33):
cereal goes away. Everything disappears. Angel, What do you what's
your go to cyrial? I don't think we've ever asked
you that in the thirty years i've known you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Okay, So I like there's two of them. I like
I like that cinnamon checks. Yeah, there's one of Trader Joe's.
It's like the strawberry cheerio stuff. I don't know what
they call it. It's like yogurt coated and it's got
strawberry chunks on it and like little Cheerio little nuggets.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
At Trader Jose. Yeah, it's probably their versions, probably called
like Trader Rose or something. Oh yeah, probably right, yeah,
Trader Rows.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But you know, with the milk, this is what I do.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I don't drink the milk, but I'll put a little
bit of milk inside of in the in the cereal
and so it doesn't get everything too soggy, and there's
not like a lot of milk in there. But then
once I eat the cereal, there's usually a little bit
of milk left. I just put a little more cereal
in there. Okay, soak up the milk and then it's gone.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't understand the drinking that milk with all that
crap in it at the ends people have. I'm blocking
my ears. I can't even hear you talk.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
By the way strawberry yogurt o's or what they're exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They're so good, Oh my gosh, they're so good, you.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Guys, But what a pain in the ass to be
on vacation with. Like here, you want the Cheerio's, you
want the frogs of flakes. I want this thing. I
can only find it Trader Joe's. Christ all right, I
only want to put so much milk in it. It's
not you don't want to drink the milk and.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Good thing. I packed a box of it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That sounds right, that's right. I'm glad you asked. Trader
Joe's is where we'll start, like, oh no, oh my god,
she's with us again. Oh you should have left her
at home. This one cereal? All right, Sharon, what do
you got your cheerio? Really cheerios? Yeah, cheerios. You put
(12:43):
anything in it?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Their heart healthy?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They're not, they say they are.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
That's just the commercial by It just came out in
the news that cheerio is one of the best cereals.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You can eat.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And what else do you do for your health?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Peloton?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's it? What what you put milking in with the cereal?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I use almond milk?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Oh my god, I am not going on vacation with you,
an angel.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, I use almond milk. Also, I don't use you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The two of you?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She started it?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Somebody, Look, almonds don't have milk. It's not milk. You
can't milk and almonds they don't have butters, that's for sure.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Apple jacks, by the way, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Applejacks are good. That's my one. Apple jack And shn
I drink the milk. That's that's like a cinnamon milk,
you know. The one I liked that they really had
the nerve to go for with the title was sugar Smacks.
They plain, they just laid it out there for you.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That's a good song though.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sugar sugar Smack. Yeah, there's a song called sugar smacks.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Well, smack smack, sugar smack.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh yeah, smack.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You back to eat the Delici Street.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's what sugar smacks. I gotta find that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Wasn't the on the sugar Smack box? Wasn't that a frog?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Bear? I thought I thought it was a fro golden crisps. Yeah,
but I think it's a frog. Let's see the sugar
smack song. Oh, here it is belly. I look at him.
How about that? What do you kids think about my
child smack? I think we all have to dream. You
are kind of weird, very scary looking. Tasted. Part of
(14:33):
these are honey smacks. It's even before sugar sugar smacks
would before honey smacks. Kids, Hey, guys, that's trying. Oh
you know, I don't like kids in in Cereal commercials.
(14:58):
They seem too.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Phony to fake those two because they didn't even sound
like they were jacked up on sugar like they should
be after eating you know, funny smacks or here it
is value.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think I found it all right right after this
home deep of commercial reads up letter. Look it's a
green belly.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Chaps got bigger smack smack sugar smeckt give me a.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Smack and I'll is that the one you're talking about?
Oh ding dog.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Gosh, big gar smack smack sugar smext give me a
smack and I'll swap fun to eat those smacks sugar.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I wonder if you went to it. I wonder if
you went to Kellogg's today and said, hey, I got
an idea for a song for Cereal. You smacked me,
and I'll smack you. Okay, what is it called? What's
called the first degree of salt? Drink that milk, curious
scissor more. No, just two people kicking the crap out
(16:03):
of each other. Keep Cereal done.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Sugar smacks used to have a clown as its mascot
or whatever. Then eventually changed to the frog and they
also to be healthier. That's when they switched from sugar
smacks to honey smacks.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes, I remember this, just like the other.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
One that was the Bear, that was super Sugar cris Wow,
and they change those to Golden cris Wow to get
rid of the sugar aspect.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, but that, man, they did that early. That was
like one of the first things that flipped is they
know they took sugar out of sugar. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Keep the party rolling, do it morning long. Guys see
visions of the things to be, the pains that are
held from me.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I realize I can see everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Let's go shoe inside. It's painless, brings up many changes.
They're not into it, and I can take a leave
and fa where you guys going bars that way? Life
is hard to plane. I'm gonna lose anyway, loses in cardles.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So this is all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Same.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
No you I mean, I'm sorry, man, you guys run
into it? Is he done? What happened? I gotta I
gotta get out of my wife called later tomorrow, same time. Oh,
we're closed close on Saturday night. Yeahmorrow, really yeah, well
(17:57):
I stop, I just say no, no.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Do you remember that place across the street. Was it
Dimples Dimple? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that was wild Man. That
was a great place. It was also called, uh, the
Valley's greatest fire trap, all made out of wood.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
The thickness of dust on every little shotski that he
had on every shelf and in the windows.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
TV's outside, the giant monitor on the roof too, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And and and you couldn't hear most of the karaoke
during rush hour because of the freeway traffic points, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And they had all of the stuff that you could
put on, all the hats and the and the feathered
boas and the little and I'm like, oh, how many
people have borne that nasty looking for that's great man.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I remember when I was with KXLS, we had our
Christmas party there one year, and so we all went,
we all showed up. It's gonna be a great night
of karaoke. And because the station had legal problems with
a previous Christmas party, they were only allowed two drinks.
(19:23):
You're only allowed to have a coupon for two drinks,
two drink maximum, then the rest you had to buy yourself.
So I got my two tickets and I went to
the bar and I said, hey, can I get a
shot of vodka? And he says, yeah, what would you like?
I said, I a shot at Tito's and he goes, okay,
(19:44):
And so I watched him pour it, and he measured
out like an ounce of Tito's and threw it on
some ice, and I said, hey, buddy, I said, you know,
in the spirit of Christmas, not to bust your balls here.
I'm sure you're a great bartender, you've been here for
a long time. But a shot is always at least
(20:04):
an ounce and a half. Sometimes around Christmas it's two ounces, yes, sir,
And I saw you sort of top that off with
a knife at one ounce. He goes, yeah, that's that's
how we do it here. I don't know you know
where you're from, but that's how we do it. I said, okay.
So I gave him one of the coupons and he
took both of them and I said, oh, no, there
was one coupon for a drink. He said no, no, no,
(20:27):
he said, that's top shelf. The one is for well vodka.
That's top shelf. I said, wait minute, So for Christmas
we get one ounce?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes, I don't know where you're from, sir, I'm from
America and an America shot is an ounce.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And a half. So for Christmas, Kalas X gave me
one ounce of Teetos. I don't know why they failed
miserably an ounce of Tito's on the rocks. Yeah, I
mean literally, I wasn't enough to even fill the bottom
of my mouth up. Just good night, pass right by
(21:13):
your toe gone. But that was such a great hang.
I forgot about all the costumes that he had too, Yeah,
and inflatable guitars, yes, right yeah, and then the old
like army hats. If you ever gonna do like an
army song or you know the Yanks are coming on
the helmet with the horns, yeah right, exactly. Did you ever,
but Angel, did you ever go to what dimple? Did
(21:34):
you ever see that place?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But I heard so many great stories about it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But it was a powder cake, Thank god, nobody ever
ever caught that place on fire with a you know,
sparkler or cigarette or whatever it would have been. If
there were five if there were one hundred people in there.
Ninety eight of them would have died. It was there's
no way to get out of there, and everything was
really it's like a great White concert. But do you
(22:02):
remember how how dry all the wood was? The paneling?
I mean you rub up against it and you have
like forty splinters. What the Christ? What is this like?
Like forty bees just bit me or stung me or something. Oh,
that's just a really dry paneling. You'll enjoy it. Oh.
In the food there, I did not trust getting at all. Yeah,
we brought our own. Yeah, we had it catered. And
(22:24):
the guy's like, why do you want it catered? Like,
I don't know, just I'll go home, you know, one
of those things. But man, Steph fush. You never saw it, right,
you never saw dimples? No, what year did they take
that down? Kroze remembers the two thousand and three, two
thousand and two? Was it that?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, it wasn't It was it was like ten eleven
years ago. Yeah, yeah, I think the last time I
was in there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, you're right, okay, seven fifteen, Yeah it had to
be yeah, yeah, right, okay, so at twenty fifteen, Wow, man,
I really missed that place. They should open up Dimples
again somewhere. I think they could load that place up.
You know, if they called the place Dimples, they in
Burbank or somewhere here in the in the valley north Hollywood.
That was a great hang man.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
We're talking about Dimples, which was an old karaoke bar
across the street's where Whole foods Now is on Olive
near the one thirty four freeway, Olive in near Alameda,
but Krozier. You remember on the top of Dimples there
were two statues. There was a an Elvis Presley, right,
(23:32):
I remember that one, and then there was a Marilyn Monroe,
you know where their skirt going up. Yes, that was sensational. Yes,
So that was a real dive bar I used to
go to.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's a that's a total I mean, just that and
how long that was there. I mean they considered that.
I mean some people consider that called that the first
karaoke bar in the entire country. Is that right, That's
what that's that's what they you know, try to use
this there sort of like a thing that they hung.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On and then what we used to do, we used
to eat. We're go to Adults and eat dinner. There
was that restaurant Adults, which was where kiss FM used
to be, and everybody everything was fried in that place.
It wasn't it a McCormick's mix, Yeah, and then it
went that became McCormick Shmid Yeah. It was also a
what was the other one, the cli claim Jumper, Yeah,
(24:19):
and then it it sort of lost its way after adults.
Adults was sensational. Man, it was really great.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I think we came over, we moved into this building,
I think at the tail end adults when it was
kind of just hanging on, and it was one of
those I don't know how long how much long this
place is going to be around?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And then there was another bar that you know, you
sort of had to be a local or you know,
they didn't really accept you. And it was Starlight. And
Starley was on Riverside in Ta Honga, right near that
that old Ernie's Taco place, and that became a cactus
taco called Starlight. So there was Dimple Starlight. There was
Timmy Nolan's, which was another great bar. Yes, and and
(24:56):
that going away party there once was that, right, yeah, yeah,
that was a great bar. And then right down the
street was the Money Tree, and the Money Tree was
a really great hang. And then jos and Burbank was
another one we used to go to, so Timmy Nolan's.
But there was another one that not a lot of
people knew about. And if you liked if your thing,
your thing was, you know, if you were in your
(25:18):
twenties and your thing was, you know, women in their
early fifties that like to smoke and drink, Oyster Bar
on windst and Riverside would would handle all of that
for you. Nice. They take care of all those fetishes
you had going on. And then another one, another dive bar.
(25:42):
This was my circuit when I was, you know, single
and going to going to dive bars a lot. Was
the Chimney Sweep on Woodman and Ventura between Ventura and
and got my More Park between More Park and Ventura
on Woodman and called the Chimney Sweep. And that again,
(26:03):
if you're in your twenties and you preferred fifty year
old women who like to drink and smoke, they laid
that out for you. You had no problem with that. Sliding
in there and enjoying yourself. But those bars seem to
be going away. I don't you know. It seems like
like every one I listed, all right, Timmy Nolan's is
(26:24):
not there anymore. It's something else. It's another bar. I
don't think they called upstairs or whatever. I think they do. Yeah, yeah,
split level yet, right, but I think it's some kind
of whiskey bar. I don't know what it is now,
but Starlight was closed last time I drove by. Dimples
obviously closed. Money Tree is closed. The one Joseph in
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Burbank is still open on it's on morep It's on Magnolia,
just west of Hollywood Way. That's still a great hang
oyster bar. I don't know if that's still open or not.
Chimney Sweep, I'm not sure, but man, those we would
just make our round, you know, because all those bars
were within two or three miles of each other, and
that was a real cool, like two or three year span.
(27:07):
I think people go through. You know, when you go
to dive bars, that's your thing, and you drink and
you go, you know, you have the happy hour and
the little hot dogs, and you know, you know all
the people there. You play golden tea video, you know,
golf and stuff like that. I think that can last
for about two or three nice year run, and then
(27:28):
you've got to pull up and really sort of straighten
your life out going to them. Yeah, I don't think
you can continue your whole life. If you do, I
think you really limit to how many people will continue
to associate with you, you know. I mean, you could
go to die bars your whole life, but it's sort
of a sad landing at the end, you know, when
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you're seventy five and you're still going every night and
everybody else is thirty. Right, I think it's the way
to roll dumb. But man, they've got to do it.
That's got to be a coffee table book the Valley
Dive Bars. Absolutely, there isn't one. Yeah, I can't imagine
that thing wouldn't sell thousands of copies. You know, everybody
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that had a great time and in their two or
three year run going to dive bars would buy it
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
The type of places that Jen and I are looking
at around the country, depending on the cities that we're
looking at, you know, they kind of fit our sort
of style and we we want to be in a
place where we're in walking distance of at least a
couple dive bars.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, just what you want to open one? What do
you mean? I mean, have you ever talked to Jena
about owning one and operating one?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh? Well, we've kind of talked about, you know, making
some sort of pub or something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, absolutely good idea, buddy.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But that's kind of why our heads always kind of
go to New Orleans because that's an easy default for
that sort of idea. But some of the other cities
that we've kind of talked about and looked at, that's
that's a that's a priority for us.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, New Orleans would be great, man. You know, you
can't there is not a sing bar that fails in
New Orleans. They're all packed. You can't throw a rock
and not hit one. Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
On Nashville is the same way. Yes, yes, every single
bar was really like Nashville. And even where we were
staying at with my friend who lives in who lives
near Duke in North Carolina, a little town called Corboro.
It's kind of got that too, and it's like in
the middle of the woods, so it's like you can
drive through the woods and then all of a sudden
it opens up to this little little town and there's
like two or three little bars in there.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's great, Yes, sir, you know there are four Irish
bars on one block in downtown Seal Beach. That was unbelievable.
You know. I found Seal Beach well. I used to
live in Koreatown and my wife then girlfriend used to
live in Lake four No. No, she used to live
in San Clemente. And so we were we were sixty
(29:52):
miles apart in total, right, So we said, let's drive
thirty mile. You drive north thirty miles, I'll drive south
thirty miles, and wherever that is, we'll get an apartment
so we can we both have the same commute. Yeah,
the exactly almost to the tenth of a mile, Seal
(30:13):
Beach was exactly between both of us. We found an
apartment in Seal Beach, we moved in together, and we've
been living together ever since. Night think gong that was
two thousand, now, that was nineteen ninety eight, I think
nineteen ninety eight. Woy, wow. Yeah, bars can bring us
together if we just let them. That's right. That's a
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You can't see everything that the La County Fair has
to offer in one day.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's almost really tough, especially if you want to do
any of the rides and on the middle and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But it used to be great because when when my
daughter was you know, and she loved that. You know,
she loves those Orange County Fair the La County Fair.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's just you get such a big smile and or
it takes you know, take her friends with us. But
when when we first started going out there, you know,
two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, they still
had horse racing. So I would spend the entire day
at the track where they had horse racing, and my
wife and daughter would go on rides and eat food
and all that stuff. And everybody won. Everybody was a winner.
(00:48):
Yeah that's what he came out happy. Yeah, but it
was great. Then they sold those dates to either you know,
San Anita or Los Alamados, and now they have no
horse racing out there. My grandma used to do it.
She would be there while we were like walking around,
so we kept going and check on her while she's
betting horses. Was she a rat track or track rat? Yeah,
she went like every couple of every couple of weeks.
(01:10):
Oh that's great, Wow, that's awesome. Yeah. Somebody asked me today,
don't remember who it was. How often I go to
the track. I'm like, we usually only when they're open,
you know, slide out there. But I probably go about
three or four times a month. You know. Sometimes I'll
go Saturday and Sunday. If I lose on Saturday, I'll
go back Sunday to get my money back. And that
(01:31):
sometimes doesn't happen. And at this point, so it doesn't
go with you at all. No, because I burned her
out when she was younger. I took her to the
track every weekend, and she loved it because you played
the infield with the other kids, or you know, I
cruised around with me. But I remember the one time
where my wife got really pissed off, and she doesn't
get that pissed that often. But I said, I was
(01:52):
taking Sophie to the zoo, and we went to the zoo,
and we were planning on going to the zoo, the
La Zoo, and it was everyone gets in for free day,
and so there were like ten thousand people waiting to
get in line, waiting in line to get in, and
I'm like, I don't want to do this. It's hot outside.
I'll just go to the track with her. So she's
(02:14):
about six or seven, and I drag her out to
Santa Anita. And you know, in my defense, she saw
animals either way, so you know, pretty horsey ding dong.
So I'm I'm out there, and Mike Willman, who runs publicity,
out there, he said, Hey, the guy that was going
to present the trophy and the feature race in the
(02:35):
eighth race, he got into an accident or something happened
at home and he couldn't make it. Will you give
the trophy out for the eighth race? I said, yeah,
sure right, I got nothing going on. So the eighth
race wins. I think it was Doug O'Neill's force to win.
And then over the loudspeaker, they say, Ladies and gentlemen,
now presenting the award for you know, the San Jose
(02:56):
Handicap or San Gabriel Handicap. Ladies. John mcarm on K
five ladies and gentlemen. Tim Conway dread right, you know,
the eight people know who know who I was, were
out there and I'm presenting the trophy to the guy,
to Doug O'Neill and the owner of the horse, I
think it's Paul Readham. And my phone rings and my
(03:17):
wife said, hey, how's the zoo And I said it's
going pretty good. You know, it's a little crowded because
it was free day, but it's kind of cool, which
was true. That's true, right, And she says, she goes,
that's that's weird because I'm watching TV and you're on
TV and I left the TV on TVG when I left,
(03:39):
and she's now watching me give away the trophy in
the feature race. I can't even imagine her watching that
and what and she and she was cleaning the house
and just happened to look up and see and then
she goes, hey, that's my husband and daughter on TV.
And I thought they were at the zoo, right, And
(03:59):
she goes, you're not the zoo, right. I'm like, well,
we tried to go to the zoo, right, but it
just the attempt was made. It's not like you that's right,
Lieder s that's right. I tried. Did you try to
pull the Hey, it's my kid too.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's so uh, it's the same story as when your
dad was supposed to take you to church.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh yeah, wait we end up at the Wincheles and
my mom walked into Wincheles and she's like, oh boy,
never I never got to go with my dad to
church again. It really doesn't fall for from the tree.
It doesn't. And then when I got home, you know,
my wife was pissed because I'd lied to her. Right
and and she grabs Sofia and Sophia's hands. She smells
(04:41):
her hands. She goes, why do her hands smell like cigarettes?
I'm like, oh, she might have picked up a snipe
or a you know, a cigarette butt out there. You
know kids do, they'll pick up stuff. And she goes, yeah,
but both she goes, both of her hands smell like cigarettes.
I'm like, well, I don't know. I mean, so, did
you pick up a cigarette while you're out there? And
she goes, yeah, I think I picked up a wrote
And she goes put her clothes smell like my women,
(05:02):
are you are you accusing me of letting her smoking,
of letting her smoke in at the track because I didn't.
She did not not smoke a cigarette. The implication did
you did give our child a cigarettes and believe it
was getting wronged. But then she started, you know, she
started kindergarten, like I don't know, like three months later.
(05:25):
And in kindergarten they have all the parents there and
there's probably about thirty kids in the class, and like
eighty ninety parents, you know, grandparents, uncles, you know, a
lot of a lot of people show up to see
their kid go to school for the very first time.
And I was there, and so missus F was her name.
She was a long name, but they called her Missus F.
And she had given a speech to the whole class
(05:49):
and all the parents. And in the speech I remember,
she said, if your kid comes home with an art project,
don't throw the art project in the trash in front
of the kid. And I and my wife, I go,
who does that? Who when the kid comes home with
an art project, who throws it in the trash? And
the teacher heard me ask that, and she goes By
(06:10):
the way, it happened twice last year where the kid
came to school the next day and said, Mom, through
my gift that I made for Mom, for Mother's Day.
She threw it in the trash in front of me.
I'm like, wow, that is a horrible human being.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then right after that, she asked the kids what
they did for summer break, and so sends up.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And says, dad took me to the track. Well. I
Then she said, are there any questions? And I raised
my hand and I could see my daughter put her
head down on her desk, going, please, please, don't let
this guy speak. Oh God, almighty. So she points to
me and she goes, yes, sir, and I said, this
is my daughter, Sophia. And I was just wondering if
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there's a no smoking section in this class, because she
took all summer to quit smoking. And this was the
reaction from the forty five parents and the thirty students
or eighty parents and thirty students in the class. After
I said she picked, she chose all summer to quit smoking.
(07:14):
She finally accomplished, accomplished it is there a no smoking
section in this class? And here's the reaction. Nobody left crickets.
And I said to her afterwards, I said, hey, missus f
(07:35):
I said, what's going on here? I said, that's not
bad material, but yet nobody reacted to it, and I said,
what's going on? And she says, well, you can't make
jokes nowadays about kids and smoking, Like, well, sure you can.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I just did that was pretty good with She said,
nahcause you can't do that. And I said, that's where
we are in life. I said, okay, it be a
long year, a long year with this crew because they
got a lot more of these wait.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Chicken on deck. Long year. Man.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Growing up, I was a huge Frosted Flakes guy. Oh yeah,
my dad was into that stuff. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, well, Raisin brand more than Frosted Flakes, but they're
the same.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah. I like frosted flakes. And also the fact that
you can get them anywhere wasn't a specialty, you know
Cereal that everybody had him. Do you go back? You
and I go back? Uh steph, fush. You're a little
too young, but you remember like going to like a
hotel or motel and they had the little box little
boxes and you'd cut open the box and pour the
milk right there had a little perforation.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You could open it up and then you can open
up the bag and eat it all right in that little.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Box if you're right enough. Right, And then the reason
it looked like they tasted better out of that little box,
the right was about it. And then the milk leaked
all over you and it was hell after that. Yeah,
but that would say, yeah, that's my frosted flakes. Frosted flakes,
my go to cereal. That is old that's right, right, Yeah,
they were, they were well, I thought they were really good. Bellio,
(09:17):
what is your go to cereal? We've never discussed that
with you? She in there, No, she's in the can. Yeah,
I think so pushing that cereal? What about my go
to cinnamon toast crunch?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, I think that's a yeah, that's the kids the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I would say, that's that's definitely grown. And one I
always forget about, which I gets randomly or centism will
have it is life. That's just a solid because it's
just sweet enough and its life is good. Yeah. Yeah,
you guys are those flakes too? They're like corn kind
of almost like it's like the square, yeah, with holes
in it. Yeah, but that's also the kind of cereal
you can just eat out of the box like chicks.
(09:56):
Yeah for sure. Yeah. I always eat cereal dry. I
hate when it gets soggy. I always just eat it. Try. Yeah,
you eat it fast man, Yeah, yeah, I can't stand
soggy cereal.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The key is eating just fast enough to where before
they get before they get soggy.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yet it still flavors the milk. Oh, you drink the milk.
But one of the best parts are you are you?
Are you insane? I have thrown out. I can't believe
we've ever met that you would drink that crap. After
you throw the milk out? Oh, do you pour it
back here in the milk? The milk goes out. As
soon as the cereal gets soggy, the milk and the
(10:33):
cereal goes away. Everything disappears. Angel, What do you what's
your go to cyrial? I don't think we've ever asked
you that in the thirty years i've known you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Okay, So I like there's two of them. I like
I like that cinnamon checks. Yeah, there's one of Trader Joe's.
It's like the strawberry cheerio stuff. I don't know what
they call it. It's like yogurt coated and it's got
strawberry chunks on it and like little Cheerio little nuggets.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
At Trader Jose. Yeah, it's probably their versions, probably called
like Trader Rose or something. Oh yeah, probably right, yeah,
Trader Rows.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But you know, with the milk, this is what I do.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I don't drink the milk, but I'll put a little
bit of milk inside of in the in the cereal
and so it doesn't get everything too soggy, and there's
not like a lot of milk in there. But then
once I eat the cereal, there's usually a little bit
of milk left. I just put a little more cereal
in there. Okay, soak up the milk and then it's gone.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't understand the drinking that milk with all that
crap in it at the ends people have. I'm blocking
my ears. I can't even hear you talk.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
By the way strawberry yogurt o's or what they're exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They're so good, Oh my gosh, they're so good, you.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Guys, But what a pain in the ass to be
on vacation with. Like here, you want the Cheerio's, you
want the frogs of flakes. I want this thing. I
can only find it Trader Joe's. Christ all right, I
only want to put so much milk in it. It's
not you don't want to drink the milk and.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Good thing. I packed a box of it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That sounds right, that's right. I'm glad you asked. Trader
Joe's is where we'll start, like, oh no, oh my god,
she's with us again. Oh you should have left her
at home. This one cereal? All right, Sharon, what do
you got your cheerio? Really cheerios? Yeah, cheerios. You put
(12:43):
anything in it?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Their heart healthy?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They're not, they say they are.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
That's just the commercial by It just came out in
the news that cheerio is one of the best cereals.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You can eat.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And what else do you do for your health?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Peloton?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's it? What what you put milking in with the cereal?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I use almond milk?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Oh my god, I am not going on vacation with you,
an angel.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, I use almond milk. Also, I don't use you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The two of you?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She started it?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Somebody, Look, almonds don't have milk. It's not milk. You
can't milk and almonds they don't have butters, that's for sure.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Apple jacks, by the way, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Applejacks are good. That's my one. Apple jack And shn
I drink the milk. That's that's like a cinnamon milk,
you know. The one I liked that they really had
the nerve to go for with the title was sugar Smacks.
They plain, they just laid it out there for you.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That's a good song though.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sugar sugar Smack. Yeah, there's a song called sugar smacks.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Well, smack smack, sugar smack.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh yeah, smack.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You back to eat the Delici Street.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's what sugar smacks. I gotta find that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Wasn't the on the sugar Smack box? Wasn't that a frog?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Bear? I thought I thought it was a fro golden crisps. Yeah,
but I think it's a frog. Let's see the sugar
smack song. Oh, here it is belly. I look at him.
How about that? What do you kids think about my
child smack? I think we all have to dream. You
are kind of weird, very scary looking. Tasted. Part of
(14:33):
these are honey smacks. It's even before sugar sugar smacks
would before honey smacks. Kids, Hey, guys, that's trying. Oh
you know, I don't like kids in in Cereal commercials.
(14:58):
They seem too.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Phony to fake those two because they didn't even sound
like they were jacked up on sugar like they should
be after eating you know, funny smacks or here it
is value.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think I found it all right right after this
home deep of commercial reads up letter. Look it's a
green belly.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Chaps got bigger smack smack sugar smeckt give me a.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Smack and I'll is that the one you're talking about?
Oh ding dog.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Gosh, big gar smack smack sugar smext give me a
smack and I'll swap fun to eat those smacks sugar.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I wonder if you went to it. I wonder if
you went to Kellogg's today and said, hey, I got
an idea for a song for Cereal. You smacked me,
and I'll smack you. Okay, what is it called? What's
called the first degree of salt? Drink that milk, curious
scissor more. No, just two people kicking the crap out
(16:03):
of each other. Keep Cereal done.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Sugar smacks used to have a clown as its mascot
or whatever. Then eventually changed to the frog and they
also to be healthier. That's when they switched from sugar
smacks to honey smacks.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes, I remember this, just like the other.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
One that was the Bear, that was super Sugar cris Wow,
and they change those to Golden cris Wow to get
rid of the sugar aspect.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, but that, man, they did that early. That was
like one of the first things that flipped is they
know they took sugar out of sugar. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Keep the party rolling, do it morning long. Guys see
visions of the things to be, the pains that are
held from me.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I realize I can see everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Let's go shoe inside. It's painless, brings up many changes.
They're not into it, and I can take a leave
and fa where you guys going bars that way? Life
is hard to plane. I'm gonna lose anyway, loses in cardles.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So this is all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Same.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
No you I mean, I'm sorry, man, you guys run
into it? Is he done? What happened? I gotta I
gotta get out of my wife called later tomorrow, same time. Oh,
we're closed close on Saturday night. Yeahmorrow, really yeah, well
(17:57):
I stop, I just say no, no.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Do you remember that place across the street. Was it
Dimples Dimple? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that was wild Man. That
was a great place. It was also called, uh, the
Valley's greatest fire trap, all made out of wood.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
The thickness of dust on every little shotski that he
had on every shelf and in the windows.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
TV's outside, the giant monitor on the roof too, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And and and you couldn't hear most of the karaoke
during rush hour because of the freeway traffic points, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And they had all of the stuff that you could
put on, all the hats and the and the feathered
boas and the little and I'm like, oh, how many
people have borne that nasty looking for that's great man.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I remember when I was with KXLS, we had our
Christmas party there one year, and so we all went,
we all showed up. It's gonna be a great night
of karaoke. And because the station had legal problems with
a previous Christmas party, they were only allowed two drinks.
(19:23):
You're only allowed to have a coupon for two drinks,
two drink maximum, then the rest you had to buy yourself.
So I got my two tickets and I went to
the bar and I said, hey, can I get a
shot of vodka? And he says, yeah, what would you like?
I said, I a shot at Tito's and he goes, okay,
(19:44):
And so I watched him pour it, and he measured
out like an ounce of Tito's and threw it on
some ice, and I said, hey, buddy, I said, you know,
in the spirit of Christmas, not to bust your balls here.
I'm sure you're a great bartender, you've been here for
a long time. But a shot is always at least
(20:04):
an ounce and a half. Sometimes around Christmas it's two ounces, yes, sir,
And I saw you sort of top that off with
a knife at one ounce. He goes, yeah, that's that's
how we do it here. I don't know you know
where you're from, but that's how we do it. I said, okay.
So I gave him one of the coupons and he
took both of them and I said, oh, no, there
was one coupon for a drink. He said no, no, no,
(20:27):
he said, that's top shelf. The one is for well vodka.
That's top shelf. I said, wait minute, So for Christmas
we get one ounce?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes, I don't know where you're from, sir, I'm from
America and an America shot is an ounce.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And a half. So for Christmas, Kalas X gave me
one ounce of Teetos. I don't know why they failed
miserably an ounce of Tito's on the rocks. Yeah, I
mean literally, I wasn't enough to even fill the bottom
of my mouth up. Just good night, pass right by
(21:13):
your toe gone. But that was such a great hang.
I forgot about all the costumes that he had too, Yeah,
and inflatable guitars, yes, right yeah, and then the old
like army hats. If you ever gonna do like an
army song or you know the Yanks are coming on
the helmet with the horns, yeah right, exactly. Did you ever,
but Angel, did you ever go to what dimple? Did
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you ever see that place?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But I heard so many great stories about it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But it was a powder cake, Thank god, nobody ever
ever caught that place on fire with a you know,
sparkler or cigarette or whatever it would have been. If
there were five if there were one hundred people in there.
Ninety eight of them would have died. It was there's
no way to get out of there, and everything was
really it's like a great White concert. But do you
(22:02):
remember how how dry all the wood was? The paneling?
I mean you rub up against it and you have
like forty splinters. What the Christ? What is this like?
Like forty bees just bit me or stung me or something. Oh,
that's just a really dry paneling. You'll enjoy it. Oh.
In the food there, I did not trust getting at all. Yeah,
we brought our own. Yeah, we had it catered. And
(22:24):
the guy's like, why do you want it catered? Like,
I don't know, just I'll go home, you know, one
of those things. But man, Steph fush. You never saw it, right,
you never saw dimples? No, what year did they take
that down? Kroze remembers the two thousand and three, two
thousand and two? Was it that?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, it wasn't It was it was like ten eleven
years ago. Yeah, yeah, I think the last time I
was in there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, you're right, okay, seven fifteen, Yeah it had to
be yeah, yeah, right, okay, so at twenty fifteen, Wow, man,
I really missed that place. They should open up Dimples
again somewhere. I think they could load that place up.
You know, if they called the place Dimples, they in
Burbank or somewhere here in the in the valley north Hollywood.
That was a great hang man.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (23:11):
We're talking about Dimples, which was an old karaoke bar
across the street's where Whole foods Now is on Olive
near the one thirty four freeway, Olive in near Alameda,
but Krozier. You remember on the top of Dimples there
were two statues. There was a an Elvis Presley, right,
(23:32):
I remember that one, and then there was a Marilyn Monroe,
you know where their skirt going up. Yes, that was sensational. Yes,
So that was a real dive bar I used to
go to.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's a that's a total I mean, just that and
how long that was there. I mean they considered that.
I mean some people consider that called that the first
karaoke bar in the entire country. Is that right, That's
what that's that's what they you know, try to use
this there sort of like a thing that they hung.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On and then what we used to do, we used
to eat. We're go to Adults and eat dinner. There
was that restaurant Adults, which was where kiss FM used
to be, and everybody everything was fried in that place.
It wasn't it a McCormick's mix, Yeah, and then it
went that became McCormick Shmid Yeah. It was also a
what was the other one, the cli claim Jumper, Yeah,
(24:19):
and then it it sort of lost its way after adults.
Adults was sensational. Man, it was really great.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I think we came over, we moved into this building,
I think at the tail end adults when it was
kind of just hanging on, and it was one of
those I don't know how long how much long this
place is going to be around?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And then there was another bar that you know, you
sort of had to be a local or you know,
they didn't really accept you. And it was Starlight. And
Starley was on Riverside in Ta Honga, right near that
that old Ernie's Taco place, and that became a cactus
taco called Starlight. So there was Dimple Starlight. There was
Timmy Nolan's, which was another great bar. Yes, and and
(24:56):
that going away party there once was that, right, yeah, yeah,
that was a great bar. And then right down the
street was the Money Tree, and the Money Tree was
a really great hang. And then jos and Burbank was
another one we used to go to, so Timmy Nolan's.
But there was another one that not a lot of
people knew about. And if you liked if your thing,
your thing was, you know, if you were in your
(25:18):
twenties and your thing was, you know, women in their
early fifties that like to smoke and drink, Oyster Bar
on windst and Riverside would would handle all of that
for you. Nice. They take care of all those fetishes
you had going on. And then another one, another dive bar.
(25:42):
This was my circuit when I was, you know, single
and going to going to dive bars a lot. Was
the Chimney Sweep on Woodman and Ventura between Ventura and
and got my More Park between More Park and Ventura
on Woodman and called the Chimney Sweep. And that again,
(26:03):
if you're in your twenties and you preferred fifty year
old women who like to drink and smoke, they laid
that out for you. You had no problem with that. Sliding
in there and enjoying yourself. But those bars seem to
be going away. I don't you know. It seems like
like every one I listed, all right, Timmy Nolan's is
(26:24):
not there anymore. It's something else. It's another bar. I
don't think they called upstairs or whatever. I think they do. Yeah, yeah,
split level yet, right, but I think it's some kind
of whiskey bar. I don't know what it is now,
but Starlight was closed last time I drove by. Dimples
obviously closed. Money Tree is closed. The one Joseph in
(26:45):
Burbank is still open on it's on morep It's on Magnolia,
just west of Hollywood Way. That's still a great hang
oyster bar. I don't know if that's still open or not.
Chimney Sweep, I'm not sure, but man, those we would
just make our round, you know, because all those bars
were within two or three miles of each other, and
that was a real cool, like two or three year span.
(27:07):
I think people go through. You know, when you go
to dive bars, that's your thing, and you drink and
you go, you know, you have the happy hour and
the little hot dogs, and you know, you know all
the people there. You play golden tea video, you know,
golf and stuff like that. I think that can last
for about two or three nice year run, and then
(27:28):
you've got to pull up and really sort of straighten
your life out going to them. Yeah, I don't think
you can continue your whole life. If you do, I
think you really limit to how many people will continue
to associate with you, you know. I mean, you could
go to die bars your whole life, but it's sort
of a sad landing at the end, you know, when
(27:51):
you're seventy five and you're still going every night and
everybody else is thirty. Right, I think it's the way
to roll dumb. But man, they've got to do it.
That's got to be a coffee table book the Valley
Dive Bars. Absolutely, there isn't one. Yeah, I can't imagine
that thing wouldn't sell thousands of copies. You know, everybody
(28:14):
that had a great time and in their two or
three year run going to dive bars would buy it
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
The type of places that Jen and I are looking
at around the country, depending on the cities that we're
looking at, you know, they kind of fit our sort
of style and we we want to be in a
place where we're in walking distance of at least a
couple dive bars.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, just what you want to open one? What do
you mean? I mean, have you ever talked to Jena
about owning one and operating one?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh? Well, we've kind of talked about, you know, making
some sort of pub or something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, absolutely good idea, buddy.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But that's kind of why our heads always kind of
go to New Orleans because that's an easy default for
that sort of idea. But some of the other cities
that we've kind of talked about and looked at, that's
that's a that's a priority for us.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, New Orleans would be great, man. You know, you
can't there is not a sing bar that fails in
New Orleans. They're all packed. You can't throw a rock
and not hit one. Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
On Nashville is the same way. Yes, yes, every single
bar was really like Nashville. And even where we were
staying at with my friend who lives in who lives
near Duke in North Carolina, a little town called Corboro.
It's kind of got that too, and it's like in
the middle of the woods, so it's like you can
drive through the woods and then all of a sudden
it opens up to this little little town and there's
like two or three little bars in there.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's great, Yes, sir, you know there are four Irish
bars on one block in downtown Seal Beach. That was unbelievable.
You know. I found Seal Beach well. I used to
live in Koreatown and my wife then girlfriend used to
live in Lake four No. No, she used to live
in San Clemente. And so we were we were sixty
(29:52):
miles apart in total, right, So we said, let's drive
thirty mile. You drive north thirty miles, I'll drive south
thirty miles, and wherever that is, we'll get an apartment
so we can we both have the same commute. Yeah,
the exactly almost to the tenth of a mile, Seal
(30:13):
Beach was exactly between both of us. We found an
apartment in Seal Beach, we moved in together, and we've
been living together ever since. Night think gong that was
two thousand, now, that was nineteen ninety eight, I think
nineteen ninety eight. Woy, wow. Yeah, bars can bring us
together if we just let them. That's right. That's a
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