Who's Ready for Happy Hour?

10 LA bars past and present that make us wish it was 5pm already!

Christian Slater and Richard Grieco at The Roxbury during the “If Looks Could Kill” afterparty - 1991. Photo by Ron Galella.

What a group! John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper & Micky Dolenz (known collectively as the Hollywood Vampires) having a raucous night out at The Troubadour in 1973. Photo by Richard Creamer.

Rage in West Hollywood - 1985. Photo from the Claremont Archives.

The bar at the Earl Carroll Theatre - 1939. Photo from the Huntington Archives.

Barney's Beanery in the early 70s. Photo from Reddit.

Madonna at Small’s Bar in Hollywood - 1990. Photo by Helmut Newton.

The Executive Room on Wilshire (at Gramercy Pl.) - 1978. This is the bar that Billy Joel was the pianist at for a few months in the early 70s and is the bar he sings about in “Piano Man.” Photo by Anne Laskey.

The bar at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip - 1940. Photo from the Huntington Archives.

French actress Bulle Ogier at Al’s Bar in DTLA - 1985. Photo from Wiki Commons.

Author Charles Bukowski leaving an unnamed bar in LA (does anyone have any idea - not the Frolic Room, not King Eddy’s…) Photo from U. of Arizona Archives.