The Atomic Cafe

A place to go after a night of partying, seeing your favorite bands or a place to eat mediocre food. The best part was the GREAT MUSIC ON THE JUKEBOX!

01/16/2022

So the reports of the aftermath of the Volcano in Tonga have subsided. People lived, 2 foot waves bashed the shores of our beaches and I missed surfing the great tsunami of 2022.
Happy Sunday.

03/22/2019

Atomic Nancy

03/22/2019
03/22/2019

The Atomic Cafe was a diner located at 422 East First Street in Los Angeles, California. It opened in 1946, during the post-war Atomic Age marked with a pop culture obsession with all things atomic.

The cafe was owned and operated by the Matoba family. It was founded by Ito and Minoru Matoba.The cafe was notable as a popular gathering place for adherents of punk rock in Los Angeles from 1977 forward. This was mainly because the proprietor's daughter, "Atomic Nancy" Matoba, covered most of the interior walls and ceiling with posters and fliers for punk rock bands. In addition the jukebox was a combination of punk singles, new wave, classic rock and roll, standards, and songs in Japanese.

The cafe closed its doors on November 23, 1989.

The building that housed the Atomic Cafe was demolished in January 2015 to create a new subway station as part of the Regional Connector Transit Corridor.

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422 East First Street
Los Angeles, CA
90012

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