JOHN-O's Las Vegas (& Honolulu pg 8) Thread - General Tiki

CTIT Chuck Tatum is Tiki Member Southern Cailifornia Joined: May 12, 2011 Posts: 1674	CTIT Chuck Tatum is Tiki Posted posted on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 11:54 PM christiki295 if you go back 2 pages you can see John-O already posted this.......so.......2 to 0 :lol: On 2011-01-17 20:43, JOHN-O wrote: Back to Sin City... I have some good news and bad news. First the bad news. Atomic Liquor, one of Las Vegas's last remaining links to its Rat Pack Mondo Atomic past, has been closed since the beginning of the year !! Stella Sobchick who ran the bar with her husband Joseph, passed away on Jan 15th at the age of 91. Joe passed away 3 months earlier also at 91 years. They had run the business for 55 years. I was glad to have met them one of the times they were both in the bar. My understanding from talking to one of the bartenders at the El Cortez, is the Sobchick's son has no interest in running the place. Hopefully, he can lease out the bar to someone who understands its historic significance and will continue its legacy. In the meantime this is really really depressing news. I liked to think of the Atomic as the mid-century mirror image to Frankie's Tiki Room (much like the Aku Aku existed in primitive juxtaposition to the Stardust's original futuristic "cosmic ray" signage).

christiki295 if you go back 2 pages you can see John-O already posted this.......so.......2 to 0
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On 2011-01-17 20:43, JOHN-O wrote:
Back to Sin City...

I have some good news and bad news. First the bad news.

Atomic Liquor, one of Las Vegas's last remaining links to its Rat Pack Mondo Atomic past, has been closed since the beginning of the year !!

Stella Sobchick who ran the bar with her husband Joseph, passed away on Jan 15th at the age of 91. Joe passed away 3 months earlier also at 91 years. They had run the business for 55 years. I was glad to have met them one of the times they were both in the bar.

My understanding from talking to one of the bartenders at the El Cortez, is the Sobchick's son has no interest in running the place. Hopefully, he can lease out the bar to someone who understands its historic significance and will continue its legacy. In the meantime this is really really depressing news. I liked to think of the Atomic as the mid-century mirror image to Frankie's Tiki Room (much like the Aku Aku existed in primitive juxtaposition to the Stardust's original futuristic "cosmic ray" signage).

Post #594557 by Chuck Tatum is Tiki on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 11:54 PM