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tikilongbeach
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Joined: Aug 05, 2011
Posts: 1443
From: Long Beach, CA via Dallas, TX
|  Posted: 2013-05-11 09:13 am Permalink
While searching through the Los Angeles Times online archives I found a 2008 article written by Steve Harvey (not the comedian) about LA's 'whimsical architecture'.
Harvey's Then and Now articles in the LA Times were a favorite of mine when I moved to LA. Now he writes a column in The Grunion. A weekly Long Beach community paper.
At the Kelbo's location on Pico one of the tikis was a repurposed pickle that used to adorn the roof of Pickle Bill's restaurant in West L.A. Unfortunately there isn't a picture.
www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-then18-2008may18,0,163059.column
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[ Edited by: Bora Boris - Fixed link. - 2013-05-11 09:55 ]
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hang10tiki
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 4467
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2013-09-07 1:17 pm Permalink
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Worst sound ever, slurp of an empty tiki mug through my straw!!!
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woofmutt
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Joined: Mar 26, 2002
Posts: 2610
From: Seattilite Telstar
| Posted: 2013-10-03 10:51 pm Permalink
Just saw the 1969 film The Gay Deceivers* which has a small scene shot inside a Tiki joint (with actual tikis visible) and another scene shot outside of Kelbo's. Don't know if the interior was Kelbo's or a set.
*Amusing enough farce to watch with some really swell period sets.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 11348
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-10-04 10:02 am Permalink
If you can post a frame capture or two from that interior scene, I could tell you.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4485
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2014-07-02 8:18 pm Permalink
The Go-Go's record label signing party at Kelbos, circa 1981.
Under Kelbo's tin roofs, stuffed macaws and dried banana peels, the Go-Go’s and Copeland signed that sacred document, the long-term recording contract. And the flashbulbs started popping. 

Said lead guitarist Charlotte: I feel really secure, happy now. It makes more sense to be on a smaller label who’ll pay a lot of attention to you.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4485
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2014-07-03 07:27 am Permalink
Found this great old article on Kelbo's in a 1957 edition of Mechanix Illustrated. It tells the story of how Kelbo's started on a shoestring.
DC
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