http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php All comments for Bye bye Rhino en-us 2008 la_jeremy Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com 60 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-147403 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-147403 Comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:56:24 -0800 <p>free poker Have a nice day :)</p> http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-147402 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-147402 Comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:56:12 -0800 <p>free poker Have a nice day :)</p> http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146873 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146873 Comments Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:22:16 -0800 <p>I remember the crazy discount offers they had. I LOVED those. Wear an elvis wig and get 10% off oldies records... or wear something green and get a discount on Green day albums. Great times... I work down the street from Rhino and I spent MANY a lunch break there. Im really sad to see it go.</p> http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146870 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146870 Comments Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:29:10 -0800 <p>Whew! At first I thought you were talking about this. </p> http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146866 http://laist.com/2006/01/20/bye_bye_rhino.php#comment-146866 Comments Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:39:20 -0800 <p>Lance has put up a lot up at our blog about Rhino's closure. But I most enjoy my memories of the place from the late-seventies. We were jazz enthusiasts and it was the only dependable place in town to get old Riverside reissue pressings newly pressed from Japan. They came in a plastic wrap with a Japanese band around them---Bill Evans, Miles, etc., great sessions from the late '50's and early '60's that you'll likely never see again. People may forget the extent to which jazz was vital to Rhino when it started. In the early days, before New Wave, the bins were three-quarters jazz bins. The place for a long time had a check from Roland Kirk on the wall, for $6. Rather than cash the check, they just tacked it to the wall. They also sold old forty-fives in the early days. Some may not remember Rhino moving for a couple years in the early eighties to Santa Monica Boulevard, next to the McDonald's west of the Mormon Temple. McDonald's didn't like the Rhinoplasts parking in the McDonald's lot. So Rhino painted a mural advising as much. The mural that told Rhino customers not to park there was of a Rhino dressed as Ronald McDonald, which was labelled "Rhino McDino." There were also song and movie titles on the mural, subsituting Rhino for other key words. Memorable were "A Hard Rhino's A-Gonna Fall" and "A Rhino Under the Influence." Glad you asked? </p>