How different is Santa Monica now?

No homeless encampments then.

John Ritter was still alive.

I could afford to live there then.

Baby boomers are the Ropers now.

Millennials are Jack, Janet and Chrissy.

Unrecognizable.

How different was Santa Monica in 1874 versus 1921, OP?

My caftan had a bustle but otherwise pretty much as is.

The exact same, OP.

NO MEN built handsome men wandering around in speedos and bikini's!...YES, EVEN THE STRAIGHT GUYS!..

John Ritter always seemed like such a QUEEN On Three's Company. He had a MAJOR gay accent.

Very different.

I don't get out to California much often but I was surprised to see there was indeed a "The Regal Beagle" - it was in San Diego though. I happened to notice it off in the distance during my taxi ride to Carlsbad.

Does anyone know if there is one in Santa Monica as well?

There was a real Reagle Beagle?

I used to ride those bumper cars all the time. Back then I had long dark hair, and a mustache. From the back, people often mistook me for a woman!

EXCUSE ME? R7

Lots of stores still boarded up one year after the riots.

I moved to LA in the 90s and would spend a few days a week in Santa Monica. I knew all the streets where you could park for the day which were a few blocks from the beach and Third Street Promenade.

In 2021, Santa Monica has locked that shit up.

"If you want to park in our city or anywhere near - you will pay us one way or another"

R14 This you?

Okay please clear something up for this lifelong easterner. I always thought the opening credits of Three’s Company were filmed on Venice Beach. No?

Now everyone’s talking about Santa Monica. I see both areas are almost right next to each other on a map.

Is Venice beach part of Santa Monica?

Like every place else that was nice in the 1960's and 70's in Southern California, it's overdeveloped, overcrowded, and extremely expensive. Going about your business, you're accosted by homeless hobgoblins, addicts and nutjobs! It's ovah!

R19 It’s the same way in NYC SoHo blends into Little Italy which blends back into SoHo and then into Chinatown. The borders or more ideas, and it’s all kind of a blur.

The Regal Beagle was based on Chez Jay in Santa Monica, which is still open. In fact, the set the show used looked very much the CJ interiors.

Santa Monica is very congested, overpriced and urban now. The laid-back lifestyles the show represented might exist in San Diego or OC coastal towns now, but not anywhere in LA County between Palos Verdes and Malibu.

“Three’s Company boasts quite a few ties to the Santa Monica area. Not only was the sitcom set there, but portions of those early season credits were shot on the boardwalk near Rose Avenue in Venice, the Season 4 opening was lensed on the Santa Monica Pier, and both Chez Jay and Ye Old King’s Head pub are rumored to have inspired the Regal Beagle bar where the gang hung out.”

[quote]The Regal Beagle was based on Chez Jay in Santa Monica, which is still open. In fact, the set the show used looked very much the CJ interiors.

I always assumed it was Ye Olde King's Head. It was founded in 1974 and would have been the swinging place in Santa Monica in the late 1970s. Chez Jay was more of a dive.

Ye Old King's Head was and still is all about Britannica - and it's still THE major draw for all of LA's obnoxious Brit expat population. The Regal Beagle wasn't a Limey hang.

Chez Jay, on the other hand, with its red pleather chairs and red gingham table cloths, looks quite like the Regal Beagle set.

(And this sort of debate is exactly why I love the DL.)

If you want to see the real Chez Jay, check out the first season of Goliath, on Amazon Prime. Great story, and the Santa Monica-est anything I've ever seen on any video format.

Ocean Park is the part of Santa Monica that's right next to Venice. It takes its name from Pacific Ocean Park, which was an amusement park on the beach. It closed in 1967.

What does Janet do now (Besides get drunk and drive her car)?

"Is Venice beach part of Santa Monica?"

Venice is a section of the City of Los Angeles. Children who live in the area attend LA public schools.

Santa Monica is a city in Los Angeles County. It has its own public school system.

In the late 70s I was a kid living near Rose Avenue in Venice. It was definitely not Santa Monica, which was more upscale and bourgeois. Venice was a mix of hippies and gays and artists and beach bums.

The theme song is a guilty pleasure

If only Santa Monica and Venice were still like that . . .

what about those obviously expensive homes on the sand near the canals in venice, are they run down, people leaving them in droves, the whole area going to hell too?

My wife & I live there

John Ritter was hot.

R34- I was 11 years old in March 1977 when Three's Company premiered and I definitely had a crush/attraction to John Ritter. He was cute in 1977.

It's exactly the same. Audra Lindley is still standing in her muumuu in that downstairs apartment complaining, "That's not the only thing around here that's no working, STAAAN-ley!"

Did Ritter ever have any gay rumors?

Still not a lot of black people around.

I used to tend bar on the SM Pier (early 00s) and the staff would often go drink at Chez's until the wee hours of the morn. We loved that place.

If that was the inspiration for the Reagle Beagle? Makes sense.