{"id":9734,"date":"2012-11-19T02:36:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T10:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:14:15","slug":"the-golden-bear-where-the-stars-shined-brightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/the-golden-bear-where-the-stars-shined-brightly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Bear-Where the Stars Shined Brightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gbear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Garcia. David Crosby, Robin Williams, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Martin, Jimmy Buffet. The Doors. Talk about Star Power! It made Huntington Beach&#8217;s Golden Bear, a local as well as internationally-famous restaurant\/entertainment club (on and off) for more than 50 years. There was a &#8220;Monday Hoot Night,&#8221; where unknowns auditioned for a slot in the Bear lineup. A couple guys named Cheech and Chong tried out and made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>The Bear closed its doors on January 29, 1986 and was torn down shortly thereafter.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/golden-bear.html\">Read all about the Golden Bear<\/a>, a shining star of\u00a0 entertainment venues in California between the 1920s and 80s.\u00a0 You can visit the Golden Bear exhibit a the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum through December 2012. Call for hours:\u00a0714-960-3483<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Garcia. David Crosby, Robin Williams, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Martin, Jimmy Buffet. The Doors. Talk about Star Power! It made Huntington Beach&#8217;s Golden Bear, a local as well as internationally-famous restaurant\/entertainment club (on and off) for more than 50 years. There was a &#8220;Monday Hoot Night,&#8221; where unknowns auditioned for a slot in [&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\/9734"}],"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=9734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}