Club Tee Gee sits on Glendale Boulevard in the heart of Atwater Village. It has a brick front with a sign that lights up at night and has no windows, only a door in front and back.
Inside it's dark. Along one wall are green booths. Along the other is the bar. Two TVs hang from a wall above the bar -- tuned to sports. There's a jukebox. It was not on on the day I visited.
This is one of L.A.'s storied institutions, opened in 1946 by
Joe Grzybowski, a World War II veteran, and his brother-in-law,
Neal Tracy.
It has endured a robbery that went sideways, leaving a customer dead, Tracy's death, and two fires.
Betty Bartlotta inherited the bar in 1984 when Grzybowski died. After having the watering hole blessed by a priest, today, she operates the lounge with her fiance,
Bob Kick.
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