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Punk Rock Parking Lot Socials

I gratefully acknowledge GoGo Notes, a blog about the GoGo's past and present, for the title of and inspiration for today's post. I stumbled upon them a few weeks ago, seeing that they featured a few images from Punk Turns 30 to illustrate their thorough research and loving take on the tradition and rite of passage that is hanging out. Click their link and check them out. The photo above is one of the end results of the "parking lot social," an ad hoc party that went where ever the revelers did. When they first started coming to see rock n roll shows in LA from their native Newbury Park, Belinda Carlisle and Lorna Doom would spend a big chunk of their night time in the parking lot of the Rainbow Bar & Grill, which was and remains next door to the Roxy Theatre, just up the street from the Whisky A Go Go - all on the Sunset Strip. Back in those days, the mid/late 70s, there was also a club called Gazzari's, named after its owner Bill Gazzari. Gazzari's...