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00:00:13:17\nand I was born on January 14th, 1934.\n\n00:00:13:17 - 00:00:17:09\nI’ve spent a little time in Venice,\n\n00:00:17:09 - 00:00:20:09\nbefore I moved here.\n\n00:00:20:10 - 00:00:24:04\nI was born in New York and spent\n\n00:00:24:04 - 00:00:26:22\na long time in, in Europe.\n\n00:00:26:22 - 00:00:29:15\nAnd I felt that Venice had a kind\n\n00:00:29:15 - 00:00:32:15\nof cosmopolitan,\n\n00:00:32:15 - 00:00:35:07\nlooseness that,\n\n00:00:35:07 - 00:00:36:12\nI liked.\n\n00:00:36:12 - 00:00:39:18\nI moved to Venice in 1977.\n\n00:00:39:18 - 00:00:43:15\nI had a catering company\rwith a friend of mine, and,\n\n00:00:43:15 - 00:00:48:08\nwe got a chance to open up\ra restaurant in Venice.\n\n00:00:48:08 - 00:00:50:06\nit was the first white\n\n00:00:50:06 - 00:00:53:12\ntablecloth restaurant in Venice.\n\n00:00:53:12 - 00:00:58:08\nAnd, we opened on April Fool's Day,\n\n00:00:58:08 - 00:01:00:11\n1977.\n\n00:01:00:11 - 00:01:03:11\nThe restaurant was called Robert's.\n\n00:01:03:11 - 00:01:07:03\nWe were open for five years.\n\n00:01:07:03 - 00:01:09:23\nThere's something about\rthe restaurant business\n\n00:01:09:23 - 00:01:12:00\nthat was very strange in LA.\n\n00:01:12:00 - 00:01:17:07\nThe, top of the line and motion pictures,\n\n00:01:17:07 - 00:01:20:03\nwent...\n\n00:01:20:03 - 00:01:21:12\nto one restaurant.\n\n00:01:21:12 - 00:01:24:16\nAnd the people below\rthe line went to another.\n\n00:01:24:16 - 00:01:28:06\nRobert’s was the first time\rthat above and below\n\n00:01:28:06 - 00:01:32:17\nthe line find themselves\rin the same restaurant and...\n\n00:01:32:17 - 00:01:34:10\nenjoyed that.\n\n00:01:34:10 - 00:01:37:08\nHow do you think you achieved that?\n\n00:01:37:08 - 00:01:40:11\nWe, we achieved it across the line,\n\n00:01:40:11 - 00:01:44:01\nacross the board, in fact,\n\n00:01:44:01 - 00:01:46:14\nbecause, uhmmm...\n\n00:01:46:14 - 00:01:48:23\nit was a very integrated restaurant\n\n00:01:48:23 - 00:01:51:17\nand, that wasn't happening then either.\n\n00:01:51:17 - 00:01:57:16\nAt Robert's...\n\n00:01:57:16 - 00:01:58:04\nwe, we,\n\n00:01:58:04 - 00:02:02:01\nwe had... uhmmm...\n\n00:02:02:01 - 00:02:06:00\nwonderful jazz,\n\n00:02:06:00 - 00:02:07:23\nreally great music.\n\n00:02:07:23 - 00:02:09:03\nPeople came.\n\n00:02:09:03 - 00:02:11:14\nWe had a jukebox.\n\n00:02:11:14 - 00:02:14:06\nAnd uh, people\rcame for the jukebox.\n\n00:02:14:06 - 00:02:16:09\nAnd...\n\n00:02:16:09 - 00:02:19:02\nthat made them really comfortable.\n\n00:02:19:02 - 00:02:23:16\nAnd it was easy to go from table to table\n\n00:02:23:16 - 00:02:28:09\nand have a little\rconversation with people.\n\n00:02:28:09 - 00:02:33:18\nAnd, uh...that I enjoyed.\n\n00:02:33:18 - 00:02:35:18\nI really did enjoy.\n\n00:02:35:18 - 00:02:39:16\nAnd, uh...there was a\rgreat deal curiosity about it.\n\n00:02:39:16 - 00:02:43:07\nAnd we got a lot of publicity.\n\n00:02:43:07 - 00:02:44:02\nWas it hard to\n\n00:02:44:02 - 00:02:47:03\nget the Hollywood crowd to come out of\n\n00:02:47:03 - 00:02:50:07\nBeverly Hills and Hollywood and all\rthe way down to the beach at Venice?\n\n00:02:50:07 - 00:02:53:20\nWell, they said that, uhmmm...\n\n00:02:53:20 - 00:02:56:03\nit was going to be dangerous.\n\n00:02:56:03 - 00:03:00:07\nThey'd lose their hubcaps.\n\n00:03:00:07 - 00:03:03:08\nThe thing that really,\n\n00:03:03:08 - 00:03:07:14\nreally surprised them was\n\n00:03:07:14 - 00:03:09:10\nthe mix.\n\n00:03:09:10 - 00:03:11:17\nThe surprising thing was the mix\n\n00:03:11:17 - 00:03:15:17\nin the restaurant and,\n\n00:03:15:17 - 00:03:18:22\nthat encouraged\rother people to do the same thing\n\n00:03:18:22 - 00:03:20:16\nor come close to the same thing.\n\n00:03:20:16 - 00:03:25:12\nRoberts closed in 1984.\n\n00:03:25:12 - 00:03:29:04\nMostly because...\n\n00:03:29:04 - 00:03:32:10\nconflict between...\n\n00:03:32:10 - 00:03:35:13\nmyself and...uhmmm...\n\n00:03:35:13 - 00:03:40:07\nthe, uh... investors in the restaurant.\n\n00:03:40:07 - 00:03:42:11\nMyself and Robert mostly.\n\n00:03:42:11 - 00:03:46:01\nAnd I lost my chef,\n\n00:03:46:01 - 00:03:50:22\nwhich is a hard thing to do.\n\n00:03:50:22 - 00:03:52:00\nWhich is difficult for\n\n00:03:52:00 - 00:03:55:12\nthe restaurant is what I mean.\n\n00:03:55:12 - 00:04:00:17\nBut beside that, \rthere was difficulty with,\n\n00:04:00:17 - 00:04:02:02\ninvestors.\n\n00:04:02:02 - 00:04:07:08\nWhat was the period of time between\rRobert's closing and Hal's opening?\n\n00:04:07:08 - 00:04:08:20\nUhmmm... Let's see.\n\n00:04:08:20 - 00:04:10:20\nHal’s\n\n00:04:10:20 - 00:04:14:21\nHouse opened in, uhmmm...\n\n00:04:14:21 - 00:04:16:10\n1987.\n\n00:04:16:10 - 00:04:25:08\nAnd, I had a friend...uhmmm...\n\n00:04:25:08 - 00:04:30:11\nand we decided to...\n\n00:04:30:11 - 00:04:32:23\nOpen a restaurant together.\n\n00:04:32:23 - 00:04:35:12\nAnd we went around all over the place\n\n00:04:35:12 - 00:04:39:13\nlooking at, uhmmm...\n\n00:04:39:13 - 00:04:43:17\nAt venues and uhmmm...\n\n00:04:43:17 - 00:04:46:16\nI came across,\n\n00:04:46:16 - 00:04:53:13\nHal’s... the building, the venue itself.\n\n00:04:53:13 - 00:04:55:04\nOne night was...\n\n00:04:55:04 - 00:05:00:15\nall the lights were sparkling you know,\rthey had these indoor lights that sparkled.\n\n00:05:00:15 - 00:05:06:10\nI'd never paid any attention\rto the venue before, and,\n\n00:05:06:10 - 00:05:08:12\nso I,\n\n00:05:08:12 - 00:05:11:20\nI had to find out who owned it, and,\n\n00:05:11:20 - 00:05:14:10\nit was called...uhmmm...\n\n00:05:14:10 - 00:05:17:16\nThe Merchant of Venice.\n\n00:05:17:16 - 00:05:20:15\nAnd it sold most of\rthe stuff that was in\n\n00:05:20:15 - 00:05:23:03\nthere was for sale.\n\n00:05:23:03 - 00:05:27:02\nAnd, uh...then they\rstarted serving lunch,\n\n00:05:27:02 - 00:05:32:22\nand they went on to dinner and,\n\n00:05:32:22 - 00:05:35:21\nand they were not really doing well.\n\n00:05:35:21 - 00:05:38:21\nAnd, one of the investors,\n\n00:05:38:21 - 00:05:43:02\nthe major investor, \n\n00:05:43:02 - 00:05:47:17\nI approached about...\n\n00:05:47:17 - 00:05:50:03\nmaking,\n\n00:05:50:03 - 00:05:53:08\na serious restaurant out of the place.\n\n00:05:53:08 - 00:05:57:08\nAnd, after six months\n\n00:05:57:08 - 00:06:01:12\nof real perseverance, he agreed.\n\n00:06:01:12 - 00:06:03:12\nWell, you seem to be the first person\n\n00:06:03:12 - 00:06:06:13\nthat had a vision about\rWest Washington Boulevard.\n\n00:06:06:13 - 00:06:07:19\nNow, Abbott Kinney.\n\n00:06:07:19 - 00:06:14:13\nYeah, well, that's an interesting story.\n\n00:06:14:13 - 00:06:17:08\nI heard of a great deal of difficulty\n\n00:06:17:08 - 00:06:22:11\ngetting people to, find\rWest Washington Boulevard\n\n00:06:22:11 - 00:06:25:22\nbecause there were so\rmany Washington Boulevards.\n\n00:06:25:22 - 00:06:28:21\nAnd, I found that real hard.\n\n00:06:28:21 - 00:06:32:06\nSo, I had a neighbor\n\n00:06:32:06 - 00:06:37:04\nwho was, part of the council,\rthe Venice Council.\n\n00:06:37:04 - 00:06:41:04\nAnd together we chose a name.\n\n00:06:41:04 - 00:06:44:11\nMost decidedly that,\n\n00:06:44:11 - 00:06:47:10\nthe council could not refuse.\n\n00:06:47:10 - 00:06:48:11\nthe council could not refuse.\n\n00:06:48:11 - 00:06:49:15\n(laughs)\n\n00:06:49:15 - 00:06:53:07\nAnd that was\n\n00:06:53:07 - 00:06:55:06\nAbbot Kinney Boulevard.\n\n00:06:55:06 - 00:06:59:05\nBecause Abbot Kinney made...\n\n00:06:59:05 - 00:07:00:19\nall of those canals\n\n00:07:00:19 - 00:07:04:10\nand designed all of Venice.\n\n00:07:04:10 - 00:07:08:11\nWe went to, to City Council proposals.\n\n00:07:08:11 - 00:07:12:11\nWe made a proposal \rin 19... to the City Council,\n\n00:07:12:11 - 00:07:16:04\nin, uh... 1989.\n\n00:07:16:04 - 00:07:20:10\nAnd, surprisingly, it took,\n\n00:07:20:10 - 00:07:21:10\nless than a year.\n\n00:07:21:10 - 00:07:24:18\nTook nine months for that\rchange to go through a Council.\n\n00:07:24:18 - 00:07:28:15\nI discovered...\n\n00:07:28:15 - 00:07:33:06\nbecause of my\rrelationship with the L.A. Louvre\n\n00:07:33:06 - 00:07:37:20\nPeter Gould.\n\n00:07:37:20 - 00:07:41:17\nWho gave me...\n\n00:07:41:17 - 00:07:43:04\n101\n\n00:07:43:04 - 00:07:48:18\nlesson, 101\rin contemporary art.\n\n00:07:48:18 - 00:07:52:14\nHe was a great help\rat the very beginning.\n\n00:07:52:14 - 00:07:53:10\nAnd,\n\n00:07:53:10 - 00:07:57:10\nFilofax.\n\n00:07:57:10 - 00:07:59:19\nRemember those?\n\n00:07:59:19 - 00:08:01:18\n(laughs)\n\n00:08:01:18 - 00:08:06:01\nAnd, he introduced\rme to all the artists.\n\n00:08:06:01 - 00:08:12:13\nSo I got to have quite\ra bit of solid art on the walls.\n\n00:08:12:13 - 00:08:16:05\nReally, really great stuff.\n\n00:08:16:05 - 00:08:17:23\n(laughs)\n\n00:08:17:23 - 00:08:19:15\nPeople\n\n00:08:19:15 - 00:08:25:02\nlike, Larry Bell and\rPeter Alexander and...\n\n00:08:25:02 - 00:08:27:22\nI had some really great stuff.\n\n00:08:27:22 - 00:08:33:12\nMaya Angelou used\ra house as an office.\n\n00:08:33:12 - 00:08:37:10\nShe’d come and,\n\n00:08:37:10 - 00:08:40:04\nshe brang...\n\n00:08:40:04 - 00:08:43:00\nall of her friends, and, uhmmm...\n\n00:08:43:00 - 00:08:47:08\nwe would sit around a large table and\n\n00:08:47:08 - 00:08:49:11\nall have...\n\n00:08:49:11 - 00:08:51:10\nlaughing,  seriously\n\n00:08:51:10 - 00:08:52:18\ngood time.\n\n00:08:52:18 - 00:08:54:18\nShe would bring Norman Lear \n\n00:08:54:18 - 00:08:58:01\nand she had...uhmmm...\n\n00:08:58:01 - 00:09:02:09\nShe brought quite a few people.\n\n00:09:02:09 - 00:09:08:22\nAnd, Gregory Hines, when he was alive,\n\n00:09:08:22 - 00:09:10:20\nspent a great deal of time there\n\n00:09:10:20 - 00:09:13:18\nand brought a lot of people with him.\n\n00:09:13:18 - 00:09:16:08\nThere was the Chaka Khan period.\n\n00:09:16:08 - 00:09:19:01\nThat was really nice.\n\n00:09:19:01 - 00:09:23:13\nWe closed,\n\n00:09:23:13 - 00:09:27:15\nthe first Hal’s in 2015.\n\n00:09:27:15 - 00:09:32:07\nAnd we opened...\n\n00:09:32:07 - 00:09:37:15\nWe opened the second house in 2018.\n\n00:09:37:15 - 00:09:41:11\nBut, you know, we were very grateful,\n\n00:09:41:11 - 00:09:47:01\nincredibly grateful for getting\rthe 28 years that we had.\n\n00:09:47:01 - 00:09:49:09\nI mean really, seriously grateful.\n\n00:09:49:09 - 00:09:52:04\nBecause that was\ran enormous surprise.\n\n00:09:52:04 - 00:09:56:04\n\rThat’s a long time\rfor a restaurant and,\n\n00:09:56:04 - 00:10:00:14\nin an area like, like Venice.\n\n00:10:00:14 - 00:10:04:18\nAlso, one of the things about\rHal’s that was interesting\n\n00:10:04:18 - 00:10:12:15\nwas, that it’s connection\rto the neighborhood.\n\n00:10:12:15 - 00:10:18:03\nAt, at the beginning,\n\n00:10:18:03 - 00:10:20:18\npart of the connection to the,\rto the neighborhood\n\n00:10:20:18 - 00:10:26:04\nwas getting the bums\raway from the front door.\n\n00:10:26:04 - 00:10:28:03\nBut as we,\n\n00:10:28:03 - 00:10:31:13\nas we grew,\n\n00:10:31:13 - 00:10:33:23\nconnection, the more important connection\n\n00:10:33:23 - 00:10:36:20\nwas to the people in the neighborhood.\n\n00:10:36:20 - 00:10:39:11\n\rHowever, they were feeling.\n\n00:10:39:11 - 00:10:44:19\nWhatever loss or win they had,\rthey shared it with us.\n\n00:10:44:19 - 00:10:47:04\nAnd, that was wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129343/file/243122#t=0.0,656.896"}]}]}]}