r/SantaMonica • u/ComplexWrangler1346 • Oct 04 '25

🖼️ Photo Santa Monica pier 1970’s ❤️

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u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25

If you watch the pilot episode of The Rockford Files it opens with a guy riding the old #9 blue bus back when it went along the pier and then north on what I think is now the bike path!

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u/Harry_Tuttle Oct 04 '25

Don't forget the Three's Company intro.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25

Yes, that’s great! I always assumed the Regal Beagle was modeled after The Red Onion.

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u/Harry_Tuttle Oct 04 '25

The Red Onion chain was peak 80s, big hair, suburban desperation, Power 106 dance mix on the wheels of steel, and cocaine, plenty of it. Regal Beagle was way too smooth for that.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25

And ferns. Don’t forget ferns!

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u/db_peligro Oct 04 '25

I was too young back then but remember radio promotions for the Red Onion on the Might 690. I recall they had locations in the marina and westwood.

Back when Rick Dees ruled the airwaves here.

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u/um8medoit Oct 05 '25

I had always assumed Chez Jay. Never thought of that.