The owners of Club Ripples – Long Beach’s first and longest running gay dance bar – are selling the iconic landmark for $4.2 million. Photo: Q Voice News.
LONG BEACH – The owners of Club Ripples – Long Beach’s first and longest running gay dance bar – are selling the iconic landmark for $4.2 million.
The sale will include the 5,000 square-foot bar, which opened in 1973 in the Belmont shore neighborhood, and 1,500 square-foot adjoining liquor store at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Granada Avenue, the property and all permits and license.
Larry Herbert and John Garcia, who have been the proprietors since 1980 and are celebrating their 42th anniversary as a couple, said it’s time for last call because they want to retire.
“We’re old,” Hebert said earlier this year. “I’m 63, and John is 70. I don’t want to be as old as Methuselah. It’s time to pack it in.”
Garcia added: “We don’t want to die here.”
Hebert said it wasn’t a difficult decision. “We’re too old to deal with baby sitting these kids.”
