The Red Garter....I use to pass this bar to and from the Marina del Rey Skate Park when I was knee high to a grasshoppers butt!!We would always wonder what it was they did in a place called "The Red Garter"?? Sounded nasty! When I was high school we tried to get in but were shut down at the door making the interest even that much worse! "What could they be doing behind the closed door of "The Red Garter"? As I became of drinking age I quickly stopped in to see all the nastiness that lied all these years behind the door of "The Red Garter". Nothing....nothing....nothing....it was an oldman bar blue with smoke...not a women in sight...not a person under 60 years old. It was nasty all right...but not in the way I had imagined. Years later this became a sort of trendy dive hang out, mainly because of the 2 pool tables in the back. This was also one of the only bar in Los Angeles you could still smoke in years after the "No Smoking" law went into effect.
The bar has since changed hands, been fully renovated, and had the Red taken out of it's name! Now "The Garter" attracts a plethora of clients....from the ever so hip Hollywood "Hipsters" to the derelict drunk degenerates!
I met the Garter Crew through The Big Geezers art Crew form Amsterdam and beyond. So almost 30 years later the circle is complete and I was asked to paint the entrance door to "The Garter"!
Check out the animation here!!!
