JSngry Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) 1987, allegedly. Either the date is way off or those cars need to get back in the time machine. Edited February 5, 2012 by JSngry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Could be right, Pinto was last made in 1980, and that beat-up specimen in the photo looks right for 1987. Looks like a Mercury in front of it, and a Pontiac or Olds behind it, but I'm not sure of the models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Let's take off those green shades.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 I think that's where I saw Art Pepper (though it may have been Carmello's-- they were both still around when I moved to LA in 1980.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 have some good memories from that club! actually sat at the bar one night next to Tony Bennett! saw Herbie H. and Carmen McR. there among many, many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) A NYC-based record company that specialized in rock called to tell me that they had just signed their first jazz group. They asked me if I would mind going to hear the group so that I could advise them what to do with it. "Sure," I said, where are they playing?" "In the valley," they said. It turned out to be at Donte's and they flew me out there, booked me into a hotel for the night, and provided me with a limo. Yes, there was a time when the recording industry was doing quite well. Funny thing is, I don't recall the name of this group. Edited February 6, 2012 by Christiern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Funny thing is, I can remember the name of this group. Chris, is that a typo? Do you mean that you can't remember? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Type, indeed—thanks, GA R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Did they have no parking lot of their own? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 No Parlking lots are uncommon, even in LA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gitin Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 I think that's where I saw Art Pepper (though it may have been Carmello's-- they were both still around when I moved to LA in 1980.) I heard Art Pepper there when he was debuting the Jazz Legend album. Hampton Hawes played a remarkable solo on "Here's That Rainy Day" and Art said "I wish we had a tape machine to catch that one," especially poignant since Lester Koenig (of Contemporary Records) was present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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