| Pages:
1
2
3
4 |
Gypsy Jan
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4275
Registered: 1-27-2004
Member Is Offline
Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
|
|
Sid's Blue Beet and Sid's Steakhouse, Newport Beach, CA
For those of you who grew up in the area or traveled there during a certain time.
There was a terrific reminiscence published today in The OC Weekly.
We knew Sid and his wife, Michiko, very well.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2013/05/sids_steakh...
[Edited on 5-30-2013 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
WOW...What a step back into the past. I used to work for Sid when he had the Blue Beet by the Newport Pier. He started the beet back in the Coffee
House days, actually in Laguna, then moved to Newport. I could tell you stories for days.
I knew Bill Lindley as well from the days back when he tended bar at the Black Knight in Costa Mesa, early sixties. The man had full understanding of
the word, "Party."
Thanks, Jan. That was fun.
|
|
|
Gypsy Jan
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4275
Registered: 1-27-2004
Member Is Offline
Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
|
|
Thank you too, Dennis
It's funny, when I was of age, meaning legal to enter a bar for 21 and over, I couldn't bring myself to enter the Blue Beet - it was too intimidating.
But I was fascinated by the music coming from inside, so I would sit and listen.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
But I was fascinated by the music coming from inside, so I would sit and listen. |
You must remember Felipe, the Flamenco Guitar player. He was there for years.
|
|
|
Gypsy Jan
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4275
Registered: 1-27-2004
Member Is Offline
Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
|
|
Yes, I Do
And now I am going to challenge you to remember the couple who played at the fish restaurant/oyster bar on the peninsula the name of whicht I can't
remember.
Helen and Bass?
She drank French 75's.
And they had a house compound at the top of the peninsula that was full of adopted kids (way before Angelina and Brad).
They would invite me for lunch, meaning I had to make twenty-five peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches for the kids.
Great fun.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
You stumped me. I was a bartender for fifteen years in that area and never once was asked for a French 75. Not even once.
There were only a few restaurants in Balboa...Karams, Dilmans...The Pavillion.
Can't think of who the entertainers were.
|
|
|
Gypsy Jan
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4275
Registered: 1-27-2004
Member Is Offline
Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
|
|
Delaney's Restaurant in Balboa
My misfiring synapses finally dredged up the memory.
I don't remember their last names, but they were famous in Paris and got a long gig there at Delaney's.
[Edited on 5-31-2013 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
Ahhh yes...Karams sold to Delaney's. Later, Delaney's bought the Sea Shanty over near the Cannery and Lido Isle.
I can't remember everything. 
|
|
|
mulegejim
Nomad
Posts: 470
Registered: 9-4-2006
Location: San Clemente, CA/Mulege, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Ahhh yes...Karams sold to Delaney's. Later, Delaney's bought the Sea Shanty over near the Cannery and Lido Isle.
I can't remember everything. |
Delaney's sure brings back some memories for me back in the days. Jim
|
|
|
sd
Nomad
Posts: 487
Registered: 3-19-2008
Member Is Offline
|
|
Delaney's has been The Bluewater Grill for several years, great grilled fish. Blue Beet is open and does a good bar business and serves decent meals,
specials on Thursday nights roll back prices to those of years ago.
Sid was not popular with the City officials, making his stories so much fun to follow.
Dennis - Cannery Village area has changed a great deal. Many new work/live style high end homes were built several years ago, taking away some of the
charm in my opinion. Still many great places to eat in Newport.
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by sd
Delaney's has been The Bluewater Grill for several years, great grilled fish. Blue Beet is open and does a good bar business and serves decent meals,
specials on Thursday nights roll back prices to those of years ago.
Sid was not popular with the City officials, making his stories so much fun to follow.
Dennis - Cannery Village area has changed a great deal. Many new work/live style high end homes were built several years ago, taking away some of the
charm in my opinion. Still many great places to eat in Newport. |
Thanks for the update. I was raised in Newport/Balboa and went south early seventies and never looked back.
Sid was definitely unpopular with the city. He was going to run for city counsel until he was pulled over one day and they found a loaded pistol in
his car.
He was hard to work for, ol' Sid. It was a hard bar to work too.
Remember the Alley West down the street/alley from Sids? Worked there for years too. it changed names to The Ritz or something like that.
I should have kept a scrapbook. 
|
|
|
sd
Nomad
Posts: 487
Registered: 3-19-2008
Member Is Offline
|
|
Don't recall Alley West.
My Grandfather took some fun photos. There is still a Dory (panga type) operation operating at Newport Pier. He took photos in the early 60's where
the ladies selling the fish are in nurse type uniforms. It is a fun stop if you are in the area. Near the Blue Beet.
|
|
|
elizabeth
Senior Nomad
Posts: 742
Registered: 7-30-2004
Location: Loreto, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
Interesting...the day after I turned 21 I started working at the Blue Beet by the pier in Newport Beach as a "bar maid"!
|
|
|
Bomberro
Nomad
Posts: 157
Registered: 7-19-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
Sid saved our business. He stood up for us at a Costa Mesa city council meeting one night in the mid 1980's as they were about to deny our plans for
an auto repair business and they had already set such stringent requirements on our small location it would have been impossible for us to make a
living. He went after the council with guns blazing quoting facts and figures of existing businesses they owned. They folded and approved our plans
and only because of Sid holding them to task. He was quite a guy. We tried to thank him but he would have none of it, just wanted things to be fair!
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7084
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Is Blackie's still there?
|
|
|
nbacc
Senior Nomad
Posts: 770
Registered: 12-27-2008
Location: Northern California
Member Is Offline
|
|
I loved the Blue Beet!!! Being brought up in Newport Beach(Newport ele, Newport Harbor High School and OCC) I remember Blackies also. I bought lots
of candy there. Have not been back to Newport for several years. Had a good time last time I visited but realized I have become a redneck and it is
too rich for my blood now. Nancy
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
Remember the Beach Ball?
I know we all remember the Stag, so I won't ask.
Woody's Wharf?
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by nbacc
Being brought up in Newport Beach(Newport ele, Newport Harbor High School and OCC) Nancy |
You probably went to Horace Ensign as well. I did.
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
Is Blackie's still there? |
Yes. Still there, but Chuck Frye sold it to someone else.
I have a buddy who keeps me up on a lot of this stuff.
What a fun thread. It's like a reunion.
|
|
|
sd
Nomad
Posts: 487
Registered: 3-19-2008
Member Is Offline
|
|
SF andH -
Blackie's is still there, open's at 6AM. Beach Ball is also on the same block. You can have an early morning c-cktail and then stop at Charlie's Chili
at the base of Newport Pier for some great chili. Or, Jane's corn dogs is a couple doors away.
Cross the boulevard for Crab Cokker fish and chowder.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2
3
4 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
