This photo is from 1940, the year the Dresden Room opened in Los Feliz. That's bartender Ray Buhen. He created the Blood & Sand for customer Tyrone Power, who starred in the bullfighting film. Blood and Sand originally starred the slice of perfection Rudolph Valentino. The bar still looks the same.
Here's a handful of shots from last night. It was so dim - it's a lounge after all - that most of the photos didn't turn out.
Marty & Elayne were playing last night. The lounge act has been performing there for decades. They performed at The Dresden in the film Swingers, singing their own lounge version of Stayin' Alive.
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