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Rainbow Bar and Grill
34°05′27″N 118°23′18″W / 34.0909°N 118.3882°W
The Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States, adjacent to the border of Beverly Hills, California. Its address is 9015 Sunset Boulevard.
The bottom level of the building is The Rainbow Bar and Grill restaurant. Upstairs was a club called "Over the Rainbow" with a full bar, a dance floor and a DJ booth, later continuing to offer live entertainment on some days of the week. The restaurant is next to The Roxy Theatre and 1 OAK (formerly Gazzarri's); Billboard Live, and The Key Club.
Before becoming the Rainbow, the restaurant was the Villa Nova restaurant, which was originally owned by film director Vincente Minnelli, at the time married to Judy Garland. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe met at the restaurant on a blind date in 1952, and later married.
After operating for 28 years, Villa Nova closed in 1968, and the building re-opened as the Windjammer, and closed in 1971.
The restaurant was founded in early 1972 by Gary Stromberg and Bob Gibson, heads of the PR firm Gibson & Stromberg. They brought in co-owners Elmer Valentine, Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and others, opening in late March with a Buddah Records party for NRBQ. On April 16, there was a party for Elton John. At the time, the word "rainbow" signified peace and freedom. It quickly became known as a hangout for celebrities of all types. John Belushi ate his last meal (lentil soup) at table No. 16.[citation needed] The pornography actor Ron Jeremy was also known to regularly hang out there in the 2000s and 2010s. For many years, the owner was Mario Maglieri.
The Rainbow became known as a hangout for rock musicians and their groupies. Notable regulars at the Rainbow in this period include Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Ritchie Blackmore, Micky Dolenz, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Neil Diamond. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were known to have occasionally visited the Rainbow.[citation needed] The group of musicians calling themselvesThe Hollywood Vampires made the Rainbow their home away from home in the mid-1970s. In the last two decades of his life, Motörhead frontman Lemmy was a daily fixture at the Rainbow whenever the band was not on tour, and often played a video poker machine at the end of the bar table.
Producer Kim Fowley used to hang out at the Rainbow, especially in 1975, when he formed the all-girl group The Runaways. Actress and musician Cheryl Smith was given her pseudonym Rainbeaux Smith early in her career as a result of her frequenting the Rainbow; she briefly replaced Sandy West as drummer of The Runaways at the end of that band's existence.[citation needed]
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Rainbow Bar and Grill
34°05′27″N 118°23′18″W / 34.0909°N 118.3882°W
The Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States, adjacent to the border of Beverly Hills, California. Its address is 9015 Sunset Boulevard.
The bottom level of the building is The Rainbow Bar and Grill restaurant. Upstairs was a club called "Over the Rainbow" with a full bar, a dance floor and a DJ booth, later continuing to offer live entertainment on some days of the week. The restaurant is next to The Roxy Theatre and 1 OAK (formerly Gazzarri's); Billboard Live, and The Key Club.
Before becoming the Rainbow, the restaurant was the Villa Nova restaurant, which was originally owned by film director Vincente Minnelli, at the time married to Judy Garland. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe met at the restaurant on a blind date in 1952, and later married.
After operating for 28 years, Villa Nova closed in 1968, and the building re-opened as the Windjammer, and closed in 1971.
The restaurant was founded in early 1972 by Gary Stromberg and Bob Gibson, heads of the PR firm Gibson & Stromberg. They brought in co-owners Elmer Valentine, Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and others, opening in late March with a Buddah Records party for NRBQ. On April 16, there was a party for Elton John. At the time, the word "rainbow" signified peace and freedom. It quickly became known as a hangout for celebrities of all types. John Belushi ate his last meal (lentil soup) at table No. 16.[citation needed] The pornography actor Ron Jeremy was also known to regularly hang out there in the 2000s and 2010s. For many years, the owner was Mario Maglieri.
The Rainbow became known as a hangout for rock musicians and their groupies. Notable regulars at the Rainbow in this period include Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Ritchie Blackmore, Micky Dolenz, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Neil Diamond. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were known to have occasionally visited the Rainbow.[citation needed] The group of musicians calling themselvesThe Hollywood Vampires made the Rainbow their home away from home in the mid-1970s. In the last two decades of his life, Motörhead frontman Lemmy was a daily fixture at the Rainbow whenever the band was not on tour, and often played a video poker machine at the end of the bar table.
Producer Kim Fowley used to hang out at the Rainbow, especially in 1975, when he formed the all-girl group The Runaways. Actress and musician Cheryl Smith was given her pseudonym Rainbeaux Smith early in her career as a result of her frequenting the Rainbow; she briefly replaced Sandy West as drummer of The Runaways at the end of that band's existence.[citation needed]
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