Tag: Mr. Snippy’s Nightmare

  • May 19th in Seal Beach History

    On this date in 1916, Seal Beach the Lodge Cafe on Main Street ran this ad in the Santa Ana Register.

    May_19_1916_Lodge_Cafe_ad

    Adams, Beverly and West were a male comedy and singing trio active in 1916.  After some initial success in Chicago, they were booked on a western tour with stops in Portland, Salem, Oakland (where the Oakland Tribune took favorable note of the trio’s “Mr. Snippy’s Nightmare” by calling it “one of the greatest laughing sketches we have ever seen”), San Francisco, and obviously Seal Beach. They appear not to have stayed together past their brief 1916 season in the sun.

    And that’s show biz, folks!

    The Lodge Cafe's dining room
    The Lodge Cafe’s dining room
    A wildly inaccurate view of the Lodge Cafe's Exterior at Central Avenue and Main Street.
    A wildly inaccurate view of the Lodge Cafe’s Exterior at Central Avenue and Main Street.

    – Michael Dobkins


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