Clifton's Republic

Join nationwide artists in the Lincoln City Fellowship production cohort as they unite for this one-night-only experience, embracing a fusion of artistry, performance, and storytelling to delight the senses over at Clifton's this Friday.

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Secure your Stage Show tickets now as we are limited to the capacity in the 💃

Clifton’s celebrates the 🧢Dodgers⚾️ as they make history once again! 👏🍾 As the traditional parade winds its way through Downtown we remember the ticker tape flying from Clifton’s on Broadway in celebrations past! Come celebrate with us tonight and keep the festivities going starting at 6pm🍾🥂🍸⚾️🍹

🧟‍♂️ Zombies invade Pacific Seas Thursday Oct 31st with haunting beats by and performances by the undead. Costumes highly encouraged with the best WINNING epic Clifton’s prizes! How better to spend Halloween than with a Co**se Reviver or Zombie?!🎃🍹

We’re celebrating the Dodgers and their truly extraordinary players and history —as they make history once again! ⚾️ ⚡️Come celebrate with us after the game— and bring your ticket from ANY of tonight’s games and events Downtown— and we’ll comp your admission to Clifton’s for a historic night out! Here’s to an amazing series and another historic Dodgers win! 🍾

🏙️ Why fight the traffic when you can keep the energy going at Clifton's Republic? With sporting events, concerts, and the World Series lighting up Downtown, we’re your perfect after-party destination! 🎉

Join us this Friday night with spinning from 9pm-2am, bringing the heat on the dance floor! 🕺💃 Show your ticket from any local event for FREE ENTRY! Let’s make it a night to remember. 🔥

See you at Clifton’s! 🍸✨

⚡️Help Save Our Sign!⚡️Someone tried to steal our historic sign by breaking into the alley and trying to pry it off the wall.

There was a rumor we’re tossing our beloved sign. But rumors do NOT=truth! No clue who started this bizarre idea—but the sign is one of our greatest treasures and a huge part of Clifton’s history. It first graced the amazing Pacific Seas facade on Olive Street in 1949 and was moved to the Broadway location in 1960 when the Olive location was demolished to make way for a parking lot and the Broadway location was “modernized” with an aluminium facade.

We saved the sign to ensure its survival— and secured it carefully to the building in our alley since we could not get a permit to reattach it to the Broadway facade.

Please LET EVERYONE KNOW the sign is cherished and a protected part of our legacy! We hope to re-install it on Broadway and would be heartbroken if someone damaged it in some misguided attempt to make it their own. Please help us share the word that it’s not going anywhere!

Historic rehabilitation is a long term commitment— and sometimes it takes time and doesn’t follow the most desirable path. We wish to thank our partners in guiding Clifton’s past into our future— and want to celebrate the fact despite the odds and obstacles— we are still here! And we hope our sign stays with us!

Saturday nights at Clifton’s are back! 🍸✨ Join us for a night of classic cocktails, tasty bites, and timeless vibes — no cover and walk-ins welcome as we countdown to our Grand Re-Opening. Doors open at 6pm, so come experience the magic🌟

We welcome the magnificent Dr Grant upon our shores this Friday and Saturday-- an authority on whatever ails you in these trying times. His prescriptions (almost exclusively Rum) will assuredly cure any and all modern ills-- known and unknown. Come to learn of his travels and authoritative autobiography "Being the Adventures of Dr Grant and his Journeys Across the Pacific Seas." Alas, all copies were lost when his ship ran aground in Shipwreck Cove. Though he will regale you with stories from his travels if you insist. Find him at the Brig Bar where he holds court Fridays and Saturday nights.🌊🌴

This weekend, limited previews of Pacific Seas, Monarch and Gothic continue as we get closer to our Grand Re-Opening on October 18. Doors at 6pm. No RSVP required. Walk-ins welcome. Come dance with us under the canopy of the Monarch! 💫

Save the dates— this weekend we’ve got another date on the dance floor! Pacific Seas, Monarch and Gothic open again. Catch the pulsating beats of (9/27) and (9/28) in our Cathedral Grove.

Weekend previews of our new cocktail and food menus continue as we get closer to our Grand Re-Opening on October 18. Doors at 6pm. No RSVP needed. Walk-ins welcome. ♥️⁠
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See you there,⁠
𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖

🌲✨ The Monarch and Gothic Lounges awaken from their slumber THIS WEEKEND with and and you don’t want to miss out! Clifton’s legendary nightlife is back, and the Clifton’s Travel Desk is ready to book your journey to the Republic and beyond.

Get a peek of The Monarch at the base of our Cathedral Grove or slip into the birthplace of science fiction at the Gothic lounge. And of course, Pacific Seas awaits—an Adventure Bar unlike any other. Add yourself to our guest list (link in profile). Walk-ins also welcome.

Our Grand Re-Opening is October 18, but the magic starts NOW. 🌙🦋

– 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖

Mark your calendar— this weekend we’ve got a date on the dance floor! Time to lose your footing and fall into our world of dreams. Picture this: you beneath our towering Monarch with the perfect cocktail; your heart races to the tempo of (9/20) and ’s (9/21) beats; the murals come to life and you feel — well — pure passion. This weekend, September 20th and 21st, The Monarch and Gothic Lounge are back. Clifton’s legendary nightlife has returned— so don’t you dare forget. ⁠Reservation links for both can be found in Clifton’s bio ♥️⁠
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See you there,⁠
𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖

This weekend the pulse of our paradise grows even stronger with DJs setting the rhythm of your escape— Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th. Their sounds will carry you through the night, as the dormant heart of Downtown’s Historic Core beats once more. Reservations encouraged, but not required⁠!

I can’t wait to see you soon!

𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖⁠

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Clifton’s salutes Labor Day with a special thank you for all the hard work of our astounding Associates! Remarkably, tens of thousands of individuals have helped craft our unique history and legacy and have been a part of the Clifton’s experiment and experience. Over nine decades later, as we work to fully re-open our doors, we are humbled by the passion, dedication, and industry of all those who have dedicated their time, energy, and efforts to keep this astonishing space alive ♥️

The sun hung low, casting a golden hue over the streets of Downtown LA as I stepped out of my dad’s dusty sedan, its tires worn from the long trek down Route 66. My heart raced; the city was a siren, luring me in with promises of glamour and glittering lives that danced like shadows on the sidewalks. Palm trees swayed lazily, their fronds whispering secrets of the rich and famous who flitted in and out of view like fleeting dreams. I could almost taste the salt of the Pacific, mingling with the scent of ambition that hung thick in the air. It was a world far removed from the quiet streets of Marcellin Missouri, where the only stars were the ones that twinkled above our little farm.

On Broadway I felt the pulse of the city beneath my feet. The neon flickered like the heartbeat of a restless lover—one I was suddenly eager to embrace. I imagined myself rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bogart and Bacall, their charm wrapping around me like a well-tailored dress. I tucked my tattered copy of The Big Sleep into my pocket. This was my new life, a stage set for the drama I knew would soon unfold…

V, July 23rd, 1949.

I’ve added a VERY limited number of additional reservations for tonight (Saturday the 24th) and the weekend of the 30th & 31st to celebrate that we’re bringing back Clifton’s legendary Treasure Chest! 🏴‍☠️🏆🔱🎁

Clifton’s history is a treasure trove of curiosities and wonder!

We’re re-introducing some of our favorites as we roll out programming over the next few months.

For generations, kids would receive a flag with their special tray—and if they were lucky, the tip of the flag was dipped in color to be exchanged for a piece of real treasure from our Treasure Chest. Channeling the spirit of the original, our Treasure Chest is back—packed full of curiosities and real treasures!  Purchase any drink that has an umbrella and is it’s a special color, you win a piece of treasure!  Redeem at the bar— ask any Associate for more information. 🏴‍☠️🚩🏖️
 
We hope you come join us to experience our unique brand of Living History and explore as our story continues to unfold.  More original classics and wonder to be rolled out each weekend.  

Sign up for our Legacy Club for more information, exclusive opportunities, and hints on how to explore our remarkable world of imagination.  

—Elle

Join us for our next excursion to the Pacific Seas as we continue our voyage! We have opened up a VERY limited number of reservations for this Friday, 8/23 and Saturday, 8/24 - so grab them before they’re gone!

We thank you for your patience and for all of you who are so eager for us to reopen. We share your passion and can’t wait to welcome you all throughout the entire Republic. We will be continuing to expand our Reservations over the next few weeks as we get our sea legs back and we will be re-opening new lands shorty.

Until then, to book passage for one of our upcoming special expeditions, please follow the link below while space is available!♥️

Yours Truly,�𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖

https://www.sevenrooms.com/explore/pacificseas/reservations/create/search/?date=2024-08-23&party_size=2

𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖 adored her job at Boos Bros Cafeteria’s host stand on Broadway.  Guests flocked to the Beaux Arts cafeteria for the ham & eggs – and the fact that someone was always there to greet them with a warm smile. 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖 was that someone. Her parents met when they both worked at the Smith & Sons furniture store housed in the building before it became a cafeteria; her mother in the linen department and her father selling pianos from the third floor ballroom.  She remembered the horses and carriages rushing up Broadway when she’d visit them at work as a girl. She even got her first job there selling flowers by the front door – a dollar and up for funerals and other occasions.  It felt odd, but she secretly loved sending flowers for the funerals - it allowed her to imagine who the person might have been to best give them a floral farewell.

In the Broadway of 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖’𝕤 present, the horses had long since been replaced by cars, and the carriages by streetcars, but the energy remained.  Though some of the endless optimism of the past had expired with the Depression and the smile she now offered felt a bit like an echo from a different era.  But her welcoming spirit never wavered - even after hearing that the lease to the cafeteria had just been sold to a man from San Francisco to save it from bankruptcy ❤️

𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕖’𝕤 initials are still etched into our doorway, a reminder that some things never change within the Neverlands. And amazingly, to this day, she still greets the curious who venture in with that same warm smile…

Thanks LAist for sharing the news of our inaugural expeditions as we get closer to re-opening. Be sure to join the Legacy Club on our mailing list to be the first to know! ✨

Wanna sneak preview of Clifton’s reopening? You can this weekend (if you’re lucky) L.A. icon Clifton’s is being brought back to life. Starting this weekend, the famed downtown location will slowly begin opening back up to the public.

Dear Los Angeles,
I opened up a few more spots for tonight’s expedition to Pacific Seas. See you there ♥️
Yours Truly,
Elle
P.S. Book your passage via the link in Clifton’s bio 🌊

Once upon a time…

Some 34,000 midnights ago…

Broadway was the West Coast’s shopping destination. It was the End of the Road—the Mother Road—Route 66, and it was where dreamers from across the nation came to experience the wonder of the City of Angels. The road itself moved away—as did the fanciful stores and hordes of bustling shoppers. But the dreams remained, tethered by more than bricks and concrete, more than economics, fashions, politics, and the march of time. They were tethered by a world of imagination housed in a building at the corner of 7th & Broadway. That corner, built besides a spring that gave life to the area, has always been special since as long as beings called this region home. This is the spot we all know as Clifton’s.

Once upon a time is once again now.

I have worked to keep the flame alive, the dream afoot, the possibilities in play—and the world in check. And now I am excited to invite the curious to rediscover what they have lost: their childhood wonder, the faces in the architecture, the ghost in the corner of your eye—the warm embrace of a long-lost love. Journey into the world of Clifton’s to discover the passion of these moments and more. Discover that you haven’t lost a thing—it’s just been waiting to be re-discovered and re-embraced!

For a special select few, the doors will open this weekend for an exclusive sneak peek of our luscious, beautiful Pacific Seas. A glimpse of its storied palms and Mahogany boat, beached high atop a dream within the realm of our collective imagination. You must join our Legacy Club to learn more—and a reservation will be required for this journey into our Republic as voyages are extremely limited. – Elle

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The hourglass has been flipped and “soon” is startlingly close to “now.” The mystery is all part of the adventure and building something extraordinary takes time. Sign up to join the Legacy Program on our website (via our mailing list) to get the latest updates as the story unfolds. We’ll be cherishing memories old and new together in no time starting with a series of preview events for our most loyal of fans—you! Get on the list now. You won’t want to miss this. 💌

Find your nest within our Alchemist’s canopy 🌳
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Always try to see things from a unique vantage 🎥 Our Grizzly bear holds court over our historic Brookdale Dining Hall and is a nod (& wink) to the natural beauty of Berkeley California’s Grizzly Peak– a place where both founder Clifford Clinton and proprietor Andrew Meieran found adventure when they were young. On your travels through Clifton’s Republic you can discover our own Grizzly Point nearby– if you know where to look!

Every venue within our Republic shakes, stirs and serves drink menus comprised of the most inventive and evocative libations from each of the many golden eras of classic cocktails 🧭 Though we’re not open just yet, we can’t wait pour you a taste of history very soon🍹

Meet Me In…The Galleon 🧜‍♀️If you look around during your next pause within the Galleon, you’ll discover walls crafted from the original windows of Charlie Chaplin’s pool house at Moorcrest, his first Hollywood home. Moorcrest was sold to Mary Astor– ingénue of the silent era– who later stole the show in the classic Noir film The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart 💋