P.J.’s was a nightclub at Crescent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd that was very popular with the young crowd during the hip and happening 1960s, and so I was surprised to see “Les Poupées de Paris” played there. “Les Poupées de Paris” was a sophisticated and rather adult musical puppet show mounted by Sid and Marty Kroft, who would later give us “H.R. Pufnstuf.” A Les Poupées de Paris show had everything: comedy, music, celebrity look-a-like puppets, and—I kid you not—topless puppets, a la Folies Bergère. Seeing this photo, I can imagine how striking it must have been to drive past P.J.’s at night.
PJ’s was on the NW corner but there’s no sign of it anymore. This image is from May 2019.
P.J.’s was a nightclub at Crescent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd that was very popular with the young crowd during the hip and happening 1960s, and so I was surprised to see “Les Poupées de Paris” played there. “Les Poupées de Paris” was a sophisticated and rather adult musical puppet show mounted by Sid and Marty Kroft, who would later give us “H.R. Pufnstuf.” A Les Poupées de Paris show had everything: comedy, music, celebrity look-a-like puppets, and—I kid you not—topless puppets, a la Folies Bergère. Seeing this photo, I can imagine how striking it must have been to drive past P.J.’s at night.
I remember the imposing lighting, but never went in.
You had me at topless puppets…I really oughta grow up someday.
https://i.imgur.com/69CtqHa.jpg
That’s a hell of a find of a hell of a puppet, Yuma!