Sinatra famously had a bunch of his friends show up with eyepatches to make Sammy feel more comfortable and move on. Which would be horrible but back then Sammy had a great sense of humor about it. So you used to see Dean Martin, Count Basie, Johnny Carson, Danny K, like everybody who was anybody back in the day would perform at Ciro’s.”
“During prohibition the mob owned it so there are underground tunnels still to this day that lead to the other side of Sunset. The basement remains really spooky, I mean you walk in there and get chills, because the rumors are that they would whack people either in the basement, or walk’em off the roof, but is where some people (allegedly) got killed.
In the 70’s, Sammy and Mitzi Shore and Rudy DeLuca started what would later become The Comedy Store by having young comedians appear in a partitioned area now known as The Original Room. The Original Room was partitioned off from The Main Room, which is where the famous acts of Ciro’s used to perform. It slowly became barren as time went on.”
If you’re thinking that The Comedy Store sounds like a Scooby-Doo house at this point, you’re not alone.
“So I personally had two experiences where I was like, I need get the <expletive> out of here.” Continues Byrne. “This is back in early 2000s when nobody hung out at the club. So The Main Room was basically like a tomb. There were never shows in The Main Room because we could never get enough people in there.
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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