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Kelbo's, Los Angeles, CA (restaurant) |
Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2401
From: Boogie Wonderland
|  Posted: 2008-06-01 10:56 pm Permalink
Name:Kelbo's
Type:restaurant
Street:11434 W. Pico Blvd. and 101 N. Fairfax Ave.
City:Los Angeles
State:CA
Zip:90064
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
Kelbo's famous for it's ribs and it's cocktails.
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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2401
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2008-06-01 11:03 pm Permalink
There are a few Kelbo's posts on Tiki Central but not an official Locating Tiki one so I thought I'd start one with this ad from the 1958 Yellow Pages ~
Oh wow they had both Pork and Ham! 
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10558
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2008-06-01 11:42 pm Permalink
Always a good thing to have it all in one place, so I continue with some images:
Their business card, a little more racy than their phone book ads 
The light house, before....
...and after it became a topless bar:
Their light box menu they had above every table:
And their found object assemblage "conversation window"...
...maybe we can find out why it looked so different originally, compared to the photo I took in the 90s:
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Tiki-Kate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2008-06-02 4:42 pm Permalink
I didn't get a very good shot of it, but they spruced up the lighthouse a bit and painted bamboo frames around the windows.
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bigtikidude
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 8252
From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2008-06-02 8:07 pm Permalink
no inside shots Kate?
Jeff(bigtikidude)
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CheekyGirl
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 21, 2003
Posts: 976
From: Like Oh My Gawd..San Fernando Valley
| Posted: 2008-06-16 10:23 pm Permalink
I was fortunate enough to frequent the place. But silly me, didn't think to get more than one matchbook. I gave it to Sabu to add it to his collection.
[ This Message was edited by: CheekyGirl 2008-06-17 08:04 ]
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bigtikidude
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 8252
From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2008-06-17 09:06 am Permalink
what, you don't go there anymore???
Jeff(bigtikidude)
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CheekyGirl
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 21, 2003
Posts: 976
From: Like Oh My Gawd..San Fernando Valley
| Posted: 2008-06-17 1:15 pm Permalink
If they had good tropical drinks I would!
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Polynesiac
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 29, 2004
Posts: 2020
From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2008-10-09 08:21 am Permalink
This is a Kelbos food and drink menu from the '70's. It is very tiki-lite, so I will just post the pertinent "beachcomber"-y cover (with closeup of the good stuff!), Kelbo's history and the not-so-exciting drink menu.
cover:
C/U:
HIstory/info:
Non-alcohol and alcoholic drink menus:
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Tiki-Kate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2008-11-09 5:07 pm Permalink
Picked up this matchbook today. Never knew there were 5 locations.
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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2401
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2008-11-09 5:44 pm Permalink
Non-Headache view.
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robtikiti
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Nov 10, 2008
Posts: 22 | Posted: 2008-11-10 11:48 am Permalink
I was told by one of the Tonga Hut owners, Jeremy, that this lamp in the corner of his North Hollywood, CA bar comes from Kelbo's:
I'm going to be a bad reporter, because I've forgotten the name of the gentleman who gave it to him for the bar, but next time you're there ask him for the story yourself. I'm sure he'll tell it to you over a mai tai.
-Rob
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Chub
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 26, 2005
Posts: 258
From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2009-11-30 3:25 pm Permalink
Found this picture in the Los Angeles Public Library photo collection.
"General manager Sonny Heideman sits in tropical paradise at Kelbo's, with a flaming coco-bo to keep him warm". Kelbo's Hawaiian Restaurant is at 11434 West Pico Boulevard. Photograph dated: Jan. 23, 1985.
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1893
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2009-11-30 7:46 pm Permalink
Note the killer ultra cool lucite chunk swag lamp hanging above the bar register .
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JOHN-O
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2453
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2009-11-30 8:02 pm Permalink
I don't live far. I'll check it out and report if any Tiki remains. Besides it's on the way to Billingsley's (another JOHN-O mid-century fave).
[ This Message was edited by: JOHN-O 2009-11-30 20:29 ]
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