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Clifton's Pacific Seas, Los Angeles, CA (restaurant) |
Atomic Tiki Punk
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From: Costa Misery
|  Posted: 2014-07-13 1:56 pm Permalink
Thanks Dusty, I should have clarified that too, I thought everyone was up on the same page.
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christiki295
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From: LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is
| Posted: 2014-09-23 2:43 pm Permalink
EaterLA.com also wants a status update.
http://www.eater.com/forums/los-angeles/2014/9/23/6835287/who-knows-whats-happening-with-cliftons-cafeteria
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tikilongbeach
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From: Long Beach, CA via Dallas, TX
| Posted: 2014-09-23 3:14 pm Permalink
Clifton's Pacific Seas and Clifton's Brookdale are 2 different locations. The Pacific Seas is long gone. The Brookdale location in downtown LA is what is being very slowly renovated.
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hiltiki
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From: Reseda, calif.
| Posted: 2015-02-02 2:43 pm Permalink
Got this from Facebook.
Clifton's Brookdale, the oldest surviving cafeteria in Los Angeles, has been undergoing a painfully long rehabilitation on Broadway—in 2010, Andrew Meieran of the Edison began work to restore the cafeteria's famous forest-themed hall; add a Polynesian restaurant and bar, an Art Deco bar, and a soda fountain; and otherwise return the cafeteria to the height of 1930s and '40s kitsch, but with all the complicated mixology of the 2010s. The opening date keeps getting pushed back and back (and Meieran's PR people aren't big on talking), but there's a bright new neon sign that things are wrapping up: last week, the huge sign was installed on the building's facade (which was covered with metal grates from the 1960s to 2012), and over the weekend it was switched on; this is the first sign of neon on Clifton's in "at least four to five decades," according to broker/blogger Brigham Yen.
The sign somewhat mysteriously says "Living History — Clifton's — Established 1932," but Clifton's Brookdale, the second in a chain of eight Clifton's, opened in 1935. (The Clifton's chain opened in 1931; the reference might somehow be to the Boos Brothers Cafeteria that preceded Clifton's in the Broadway space, although that opened way back in 1913.) The latest word is that Clifton's will reopen later this year.
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2015-02-03 1:27 pm Permalink
Nice! The terrazzo mosaic on the sidewalk looks great, too!
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RevBambooBen
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From: Huntikington Beach
| Posted: 2015-02-03 7:43 pm Permalink
Now I'm totally confused. Are they opening a "Seven Seas" or the "Pacific Seas" ???
Read article...... http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/cliftons-cafeteria-coming-back-life-long-last/
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SoCal Savage
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| Posted: 2015-09-03 3:32 pm Permalink
Any news on when they're re-opening?
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arriano
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From: Dog Patch - San Diego
| Posted: 2015-09-10 08:24 am Permalink
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On 2015-09-03 15:32, SoCal Savage wrote:
Any news on when they're re-opening?
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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84259761/
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"Opening date is set for late September, probably an unannounced soft opening sometime during the third week, followed by an official ribbon-cutting scheduled for Sept. 21."
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2015-09-10 12:46 pm Permalink
Gotta say I am getting excited for this!
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2015-09-10 9:56 pm Permalink
This is not the Clifton's that still exists. The Pacific Seas closed decades ago. The Clifton's Brookdale is the establishment that is being remodeled and will include a bar in homage to the old Clifton's Pacific Seas. It would be tidier from a historical context to direct these posts to that thread on TC.
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=19060&forum=2&hilite=brookdale
This has been discussed previously.
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2015-12-17 4:24 pm Permalink
Spotted this cool multi-photo postcard from Pacific Seas.
It includes the signature poem by York.
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The Below Decks
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Posts: 408 | Posted: 2015-12-18 09:53 am Permalink
I love that poem so much that I had Lake Tiki make a sign with it that hangs on the front door of The Below Decks!
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