Watering Hole Up-Date

In our boozier days, Ye Coach & Horses was the nearest post-adolescent meeting place, actually the only place a man or woman could get a shot on Sunset Blvd. between The Cat & Fiddle & the Sunset Strip.Say good-bye, according to a press release, via Franklin Avenue.

Ye Coach and Horses has lost its lease and is being evicted thanks to the owner of Samuel French Bookstore who owns the property. After 74 YEARS as a Hollywood nightlife institution, the bar will be forced out at the end of the month.

At this time, the owner and management of the bar is locked in a legal fight with Samuel French over an eviction notice served on July 1st.

So many celebrities of film, television and music have called Coach and Horses home over the past seven decades including Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Spacey, James Gandolfini, Quentin Tarantino, Drew Barrymore, Michael Keaton and Alicia Silverstone. It would be a shame and a travesty to let this establishment slip away without a fight.

And it would put you all out of work, possibly more of a shame than the loss of someplace where Kiefer Sutherland may once have taken a whiz before drunk driving.

Our fondest memory of the dump was the night we met our then-girlfriend there for a drink, Ye C&H being about halfway between our respective residences, & after two drinks started to drive to our then-bunker, only to turn (the wrong way) down the only one-way street in Hollywood, resulting in a DUI arrest by a motorcycle cop lurking on hooker patrol, & trip to the Wilcox Hotel for GF. Which caused us to walk to her place, buzz her husband from the front door & tell him we had to go pick up the car, get some cash at Ralphs on Sunset & bail out the wife. (Good thing that in those days US$35.00 cash could get a DUI suspect released.)

One other memory, the owner (Bob?) who would fill a 12-oz. glass to the brim w/ white rum & sip at it all night. Mixed drinks are for wimps.