Expand<\/a><\/p>\nBy 1965, however, Provencio was ready to give up ownership in the club, selling it to four partners in the spring of 1965. The partnership group, Cisco\u2019s Manhattan Beach, Inc., included William P. Haines, Claude G. Hall, George Mootz, William D. Stitts and William C. Thompson, all of them Manhattan Beach residents.<\/p>\n
The quartet\u2019s corporation became recognized by California on June 7, 1965. The club was completely refurbished inside and out to give it a more up-to-date look for its June 10 reopening.<\/p>\n
After that, it quickly became apparent that the new owners were targeting a younger audience. In addition to the Latin dance bands, they began booking teen-oriented acts.<\/p>\n
By the fall of 1965, local bands such as the Jesters, and Richard and the Bowmen were playing regularly there. On Nov. 10, British performer Ian Whitcomb played a night at the club on the strength of his national top 10 hit, \u201cYou Turn Me On.\u201d Big Jay McNeely also returned for a two-week engagement in 1966.<\/p>\n
In 1968, actor Jack Ging took over management of the club, bringing along with him two celebrity investors: actor Clint Eastwood, and comedian and Redondo Union High alum Tommy Smothers. Haines remained from the 1965 ownership team.<\/p>\n
The new participants upped Cisco\u2019s visibility by booking higher-profile acts. Ike and Tina Turner, for example, played dates there in 1969 and 1970. A March 1970 ad touted upcoming appearances by Bill Medley of the Righteous Bros, Jennifer Warnes, Rick Nelson, Etta James, and Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.<\/p>\n
An undated poster exists for a Neil Diamond show at Cisco\u2019s, though it\u2019s unclear when it occurred. But Cisco\u2019s attracted name acts like Diamond, Glen Campbell, Cheech and Chong, and others who could use the occasion to try out new material and work out performing kinks.<\/p>\n
The club was beginning to live up to its advertised billing as \u201cwhere the action is\u201d but amping up the entertainment led to louder volume rock music and attracted larger, more boisterous crowds.<\/p>\n
In August 1971, nearby resident Brenton Goodrich, representing 35 neighbors living near Cisco\u2019s, brought a noise complaint to the Manhattan Beach City Council. It described overly loud music blasting into the neighborhood until 2 a.m. on most nights.<\/p>\n
After warning the club of the complaint, the council declared Cisco\u2019s a public nuisance on Dec. 7. But the club received a reprieve a month later when it was determined that its owners were working on the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the loud music being played at Cisco\u2019s was by Guy Lombardo or Lawrence Welk,\u201d the soundproofing contractor doing the modifications told the council, \u201cthere never would have been any complaints in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, during the March 7, 1972, City Council meeting, the local elected officials voted to revoke the club\u2019s dance permit, effective March 21, on the grounds that the anti-noise measures had not been effective in solving the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor (Mike) Sweeney has been operating like a Boss Tweed,\u201d Smothers told the Daily Breeze. \u201cHe\u2019s playing power politics because it\u2019s an election year. He wants to get rid of everyone under 40 in this town.\u201d<\/p>\n
The furor died down somewhat after the city eventually established a zone around Cisco\u2019s, outside of which excessive noise would not be allowed.<\/p>\n
Perhaps discouraged by the whole dispute, however, Cisco\u2019s owners called it quits, closing and selling the club entirely in February 1973. By October 1974, Cisco\u2019s had reopened as Brennan\u2019s, a branch of the popular Marina del Rey restaurant with a much lower entertainment \u2014 and noise profile.<\/p>\n
After many more later changes, including a whole new building, the site is now occupied by a Baja Sharkeez restaurant\/bar.<\/p>\n
Sources: Daily Breeze archives. Los Angeles Times archives. Setlist.fm website. \u201cSouth Bay\/Los Angeles Days of Old California\u201d Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original Manhattan Beach building that once housed Cisco\u2019s restaurant and nightclub, 3600 Highland Ave., has long since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9965,2136,267,9966,75,9967,84,83,9,24,63,52729],"class_list":["post-120061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-beach-cities","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-beach","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-south-bay-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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