OC Sports Grill - CLOSED

[TobiasFunke]

There's one word that sums up Fritz

Cochino

[Tank]

Agreed YK. Almost every sports bar I've seen open ultimately shuts down. Independent or chain. 

 

 

we may have found the common denominator here.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

F'n Obama.

[Spirit]

Bring back the Red Onion

[JAHV76]

In the late 80's and early 90's the red onion was good for a lot of things.

[Thomas]

Stopped going to that place when they were hosting Kings watch parties during the Freeway Face Off and openly inviting Kings fans to come grab rally towels and watch the game. 

 

 

Hell I did a Kings watch there in 2001.

[xboom28x]

I saw the Lakers clinch vs the Magic there. When it was Nationals, I saw Jim Edmonds cheat on his wife there.

[Blarg]

and don't have titties

They had Brittany. They just mismanaged the hell out of that location.

[Lhalo]

I saw the Lakers clinch vs the Magic there. When it was Nationals, I saw Jim Edmonds cheat on his wife there.

 

Are you sure it wasn't still "Nationals" when that happened?

[Angel Oracle]

Having never gone in there, I can't vouch for the food or service... but I like Jay's point... other than Angels games, it doesn't look like its close to anything.

 

For the record, I was at Legends on Second Street in Belmont on Sat.  Place looks better than ever and I've been going there 25 years.

Haven't been there in ages, but frequented it back in the 1980s when former Rams OL Dennis Harrah co-owned it.

 

I do miss the North Woods Inn that was on 2nd St. for years, but closed several years back.

Good steaks, salads, cheese bread, and great nude portraits. 

Edited October 23, 2014 by Angel Oracle

[Jay]

Back in the day we used to spend time at Yankee Doodle's in LB where you could play foosball and have beer and pizza.  Closed now I guess.

[yk9001]

Back in the day we used to spend time at Yankee Doodle's in LB where you could play foosball and have beer and pizza.  Closed now I guess.

 

It is closed.

 

I had gone to Yankee Doodles back in the day.   Then, about three years ago, my son had a swim meet at belmont pool, we had some free time, and I suggested to my wife we go to Yankee Doodles.  We walked in, and it was kind of a bar, but they were playing synth music, and all the tvs had beach scenes and such.  No sports on the tvs.

 

Its now closed, or something entirely different.

 

"Dexter" killed someone in the alley next to Yankee Doodles.

[Brandon]

Fritz's was hilarious. A lot of us here and in general would roll there after Throwbacks because Throwbacks didn't have a full liquor license, so they had to close early. The things you see from drunk chicks in a strip club for the first time. I remember one tim some stripper was hitting on me and wanted to exchange number and hangout that upcoming weekend. This chick had suicide scars on her wrists and she decided to give the table her back story on them. Just wild.

 

But yeah, shit was like:

 

[Blarg]

Like a blank pic?

[Brandon]

The gif is showing on my page. it's glorious.

[Spirit]

My buddy was one of the bartenders there when it first opened as the Red Onion.  They had two nights of "friends and family" dry runs.  Beers were $0.25 and those huge party buckets were a dollar.

 

 

 

 

We were not sober. 

[ScottT]

Funny that several Ducks fans have commented here and elsewhere about not going there because of the Kings promo giveaways.  The shitty service (and I'm not a service stickler), poor atmosphere, mediocre (probably generous) food,  and weak beer selection....  didn't stop you from going, but a few car flags did?  I'm a Kings fan, went to a couple of the games in Anaheim, and had no desire to stop by this place.   

Edited October 23, 2014 by ScottT

[Angel Oracle]

I remember Yankee Doodles and Legends being sponsors for LB State football and basketball radiocasts back in the 1980s.

 

And on top of everything else, Belmont Pool is being demolished although a new pool facility is supposed to be built in its' place.

And yes this next one is about one of my LB friends.

He actually swam in the U.S. Olympic trials (butterfly his specialty) in 1968 at Belmont just after it was opened.

[DowningRules]

Having never gone in there, I can't vouch for the food or service... but I like Jay's point... other than Angels games, it doesn't look like its close to anything.

 

For the record, I was at Legends on Second Street in Belmont on Sat.  Place looks better than ever and I've been going there 25 years.

 

I've never been inside but I've been intrigued by Legends for years.  It looks like the kind of place you'd bump into Magnum P.I., TC and Rick.  From the outside, it looks like a good '70s/'80s era hangout with chili cook-offs Hawaiian Tropic girl contests.  Maybe an annual iron man competition too.

[Stradling]

It's awesome, I've been there and yes DR it is exactly that.

[Tank]

i've never been there. i'm still waiting for stradling to invite me.

[yk9001]

Yeah, with Dennis Harrah as co owner in the 1990s, it certainly had a Magnum vibe.

 

It had a big fire a few years ago, and it came back pretty updated.  Very airy, and the ceilings are high beam wood - looks pretty good.  Instead of a more NFL-centric memorabilia look in the 1990s, the memorabilia is now 50-50 pro sports/Long Beach State sports. (AO boner alert)

 

I am not going to my grave saying its the best in the world.  But it looks and feels good.  Not cheezy like the pics of OC Grill.

[JAHV76]

Yankee doodles was fun. I remember going there in the late 80s. Good times.