during 1975 I lived at 505 Gayley in Westwood (split $125/mo. single with high school buddy)
- saw and heard Pink Floyd at the L.A. Sports Arena
- huge LAPD turnout due to band’s ‘reputation’ (drug music) courtesy of Chief Ed Davis
- don’t remember my date; went with my Bullocks-Westwood co-worker and his date who was niece/sister of our shoe dept. buyer
- we smoked hash oil (Chief Davis was correct)
- down Glendon Ave. from Bullocks-Westwood was Ship’s coffee shop where I had my first ‘patty melt’ (burger on toasted rye with melted cheese and sautéed/caramelized onions)
- there was a toaster at each table and several at counter so customers could toast bread, etc. to their own specifications
- half-way between Bullocks-Westwood and Ship’s was Monty’s restaurant on the top floor of an office building
- they had decent prime rib, chicken, fish, etc.
- an entire room dedicated to backgammon playing
- mostly they had a bar that served ‘Green Lizards’ – 1:1 of 151 proof rum and ‘green chartreuse’ liquer served in an aperitif glass
- one would ignite it (yeah, it caught fire!) briefly to warm, blow it out and down it in one gulp; it tasted like shit (antidote was water) but warmed your insides and “got the job done”
- the best band that played at this bar was Champion and Gomez Topazz: two guys that alternated on bass, guitar, keyboard, pedal bass (Moog Taurus?) and early rudimentary sequencer (Spencer Sequencer) and drum machine (Lionel P. Fenstershorts)
- they played all the radio hits of the day including Bowie and Pink Floyd
- saw and heard Pink Floyd at the L.A. Sports Arena
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“You may unfasten your seat belts……”
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Communication
Free association
Degrees of separation
My compensation
