From the striped couches and shag rugs to the Monte Carlo pinball machine and the trailer-shaped pop-up bar and barbecue in the light-strewn back patio, Good Times contains all the best elements of a tremendous rager in a good friend's home. Good Times at Davey Wayne's, however, is their most lowbrow concept, with dome-shaped lighting fixtures, white brick faux-fireplace and roller skaters who perform on a glass rooftop.īut aside from the sweet, stiff cocktails and the eight beer taps installed in what looks like a refrigerator door, the best part about Good Times at Davey Wayne's is its house party feel, even if it's a completely fabricated one. With its Victorian chandeliers, a circa-1902 fireplace and tight rope walkers gracing the the back patio, No Vacancy is the Houston brothers' most sophisticated lounge. See also: Racism Charged Against Hollywood Bar That Forbids Hip-HopĮach bar has a secret entrance more sophisticated than the next, a hidden smoking patio and a bathroom whose cheeky wallpaper is in accordance with the bar's intricate theme. He and identical twin brother Mark own a string of thematic and increasingly multi-faceted cocktail lounges including No Vacancy, Dirty Laundry and Piano Bar in the heart of Hollywood, Harvard & Stone and La Descarga in East Hollywood and Pour Vous near Larchmont. “I really enjoy having that element of a retail store in our venues,” Jonnie Houston tells the Weekly. But his retail expertise doesn't end there: he also runs the turn-of-the-century gift shop at Jonnie and Mark Houston's pre-Prohibition-themed No Vacancy bar half a mile away. He's been collecting 1970s-era records, clothing and tchotchkes for this garage sale for four months. It's standard flea market procedure,” says Marcus, who resembles Christian Bale's character from American Hustle, right down to his crushed velvet blazer and yellow-tinted glasses. The details are straight out of your parents' house circa 1977 the entrance even requires walking through a refrigerator door.
Behind it is Jonnie and Mark Houston's new 1970s-themed bar, Good Times at Davey Wayne's. Marcus' Disneyland metaphor is an apt one, because this garage sale is actually an elaborate and highly-curated facade.
“It's like Disneyland, but we waft the smell of marijuana,” says the man throwing the garage sale, Christian Marcus, comparing the wayward aromas to the vanilla and peppermint scents that are reportedly pumped into Disney's Main Street. that morning and was just beginning to wind down. The dumpster out front contained the remnants of moving day, which had begun at 1 a.m. and the UHaul truck had just pulled away, leaving several vintage motorcycles unloaded on the sidewalk. in Hollywood last night, Jimmy Buffett's Rupert Holmes' “If You Like Pina Coladas” could be heard from inside a garage sale as the smell of weed floated in the air outside. On a quiet stretch of residential El Centro Ave.
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