#flipper's

“When Mr. Ross first conceived of the club with Mr. Cordell and another investor, his intention had been to make it a cultural mosh pit. The roughly framed notion was to foster an ethos not unlike that encapsulated by Tom Wolfe in his depiction of the ’60s counterculture guru Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters: “Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there’s not going to be anything to apologize about.”

Seemingly, Flipper’s served as a crossroads for the disparate factions and tribes of Los Angeles in a way that seems almost unbelievable in light of the increasingly fragmented place the city would later become.

“People came there from Compton or Watts or the Valley,” Mr. Ross said. “There weren’t any rules or horrible prejudices. And we didn’t ever want to stop anyone from doing anything as long as they didn’t muck about on the rink.”

[Great article, plus a super comments section including this one: 

“It was something about ‘Uptown Girls Going Downtown,’” Mr. Ross said in a conference call shared by his wife, Bunty, from the home of Ms. Ross and Mr. Lovine, where they were looking after Ms. Ross’s children from a previous marriage, to the director Rupert Sanders, while she was in Europe to promote her book." 

From Flipper’s:

Fresh Fruit Flipper's (Soufflé) Pancakes.

FLIPPER'S was an immense hit in Tokyo's pre-COVID days. Before the bubble tea fever, we had a big pancake boom in Japan and it was impossible to enter this place.

They opened a new department store in Yokohama station that has a small Flipper's stand - takeout-only and sweets were not sold out yet, so we finally had a chance to try one of their treats, yay!