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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Perhaps workers at Firestone patronized this nightspot back in the day.
I'm curious about the matchbook design...a rooster/cock on a log.
inside joke? -perhaps only Topsy's closest friends know the meaning. |
Topsy's is another mini-chain import from San Francisco, like Coffee Dan's (and also had one of those crazy slides to the dance floor). I didn't realize there was one in LA too. It started as Topsy's Roost, at 8101 Long Beach Blvd. (I found a reference to this building being "newly built" in LAT Oct 30, 1930).
LAT Jan 1, 1935
As of Dec 29, 1937 they moved down the street to the Firestone & Long Beach Blvd. location, and dropped the 'Roost' but kept the ol' chicken on a log.
Why the original Topy's latched onto that image??? They were kind of quirky. The original one up at SF's at Playland-at-the-Beach also used it, and had dining booths that looked like little log-cabin chicken roosts. Wonder if the LA one copied the decor?
http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/wp-con...opsysRoost.jpg
http://www.outsidelands.org/images/topsys-roost-pc3.jpg