{"id":14969,"date":"2014-01-05T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14969"},"modified":"2014-01-05T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:39:16","slug":"avalon-beach-blanket-bingo-and-we-dont-mean-frankie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/avalon-beach-blanket-bingo-and-we-dont-mean-frankie\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalon Beach Blanket Bingo (and we don&#8217;t mean Frankie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/avablank.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Head for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/avalon.html\">Avalon<\/a> this summer for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Catalina Island<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8216;s very own version of Beach Blanket Bingo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Beach Blanket Bingo,<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beach-party-girls-on-the-beach\/\">many 1960s era beach genre movies<\/a>, Frankie Avalon\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Annette Funicello<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0are looking for a certain radio station on their transistor radio. When they find it, they begin singing the film&#8217;s title song, &#8220;Beach Blanket Bingo.&#8221; Though some consider this the first and only Avalon Beach Blanket Bingo, \u00a0there&#8217;s another Avalon version played on Tuesday and Thursday summer evenings between 6 and 7 p.m. The public is invited to roll back the clock for some old-fashioned beach fun. Bring your blanket or beach chair&#8211; $1 per bingo card gets you in on the action to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">win fun local prizes.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 Beach Summer Bingo goes from June 24 to August 28, 2014. Call<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0&#8220;Avalon&#8221; at 310-510-1987, \u00a0or see their web: CityofAvalon.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRIVIA<\/strong>: Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) was filmed &#8220;26 Miles Across the Sea&#8221; from Santa Catalina, overlooking the island of romance from Malibu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/malibu-paradise-cove-pier.html\">Paradise Cove<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head for Avalon this summer for\u00a0\u00a0Catalina Island&#8216;s very own version of Beach Blanket Bingo In\u00a0Beach Blanket Bingo,\u00a0one of many 1960s era beach genre movies, Frankie Avalon\u00a0and\u00a0Annette Funicello\u00a0are looking for a certain radio station on their transistor radio. When they find it, they begin singing the film&#8217;s title song, &#8220;Beach Blanket Bingo.&#8221; Though some consider this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}