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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck

Recent salt water excursions made me wonder about San Pedro's legendary place for top-flight entertainment, Shipwreck Joey's. Sources claim it started out as the Bayview Drive-in, sometime in the '30s and evolved into a nightclub. There should be photos of the original deco signage?

1989 (Corner of B and Figueroa Streets, Wilmington)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...5MJS2SQH28.jpg

1999 - Same building clad in new paint and neon for movie, Fight Club
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdLJCHnjTV...LousTavern.JPG

I haven't found any photos of the original deco signage, but here are some more pictures of Shipwreck Joey's. The first is from 'To Live & Die In L.A.'.


www.seeing-stars.com

This one is dated 1979/80.


Smithsonian American Art Museum/John Humble

Aerial from 1980 showing Shipwreck Joey's in the center.


Historic Aerials

The site is now on the south-west corner of Wilmington Waterfront Park (formerly known as the Harry Bridges Boulevard Buffer Project). The picture below is looking west, so Shipwreck Joey's was in the top left corner of the green area.


www.portoflosangeles.org

A couple of LA Times articles about Shipwreck Joey's:

Wilmington's Topless Bar May Bottom Out Through Land Sale - September 16, 1988

Topless Bar Loses Its Shirt to a Truck Stop - September 06, 1990

A couple of previous posts featuring John Humble pictures:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6733

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13937