The Lucite Wall in Kelbo's, Los Angeles - General Tiki

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R ratking Member originally Pac. Palisades Joined: Nov 12, 2008 Posts: 1	R ratking Posted posted on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 9:20 PM A huge thank you to everybody who's posted Kelbos photos. My buddies & I used to go to Kelbos while in high school and college back in the mid-late 70s. We used to get gloriously tipsy on what looked like a gallon of Flaming Zombos in a giant clamshell. I had my wedding rehersal dinner in the Coco Bowl in '91. My wife & I moved to Atlanta in '92 & a few years later on a visit back to LA discovered Kelbos had been raped, descecrated, violated... words fail me. Somebody deserves to burn in hell. (If you want to go to a strip club, you go to the Wild Goose down at the airport - you heathens!) But it does my heart good to know part of the kitsch has survived. Please, post more photos people. The ratking himself
A abstractiki Tiki Socialite Lodi, CA Joined: Aug 29, 2009 Posts: 606	A abstractiki Posted posted on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 9:20 PM Found this pic at the Los Angeles Public Library archives. "Herald-Examiner Collection Publisher 1985. Description 1 photographic print : b&w ; 28 x 36 cm. Notes Title supplied by cataloger. Summary Photograph caption reads: "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."

A huge thank you to everybody who's posted Kelbos photos.

My buddies & I used to go to Kelbos while in high school and college back in the mid-late 70s. We used to get gloriously tipsy on what looked like a gallon of Flaming Zombos in a giant clamshell. I had my wedding rehersal dinner in the Coco Bowl in '91.

My wife & I moved to Atlanta in '92 & a few years later on a visit back to LA discovered Kelbos had been raped, descecrated, violated... words fail me. Somebody deserves to burn in hell. (If you want to go to a strip club, you go to the Wild Goose down at the airport - you heathens!)

But it does my heart good to know part of the kitsch has survived. Please, post more photos people.

The ratking himself

Found this pic at the Los Angeles Public Library archives.

"Herald-Examiner Collection
Publisher 1985.
Description 1 photographic print : b&w ; 28 x 36 cm.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Summary Photograph caption reads: "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."