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Summary
  • AKA: Psychotic Motel, Zebra Club
  • Type: Bar
  • Where: 560 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA
  • When: 1983 - Unknown
Sceneroller, Saigon Palace, Bar, San Diego, California,
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Successor to the Zebra Club in downtown San Diego.

"Nightclub Transforms S.d. Bar With New Bands" (Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1987)

Every Saturday night the Saigon Palace, a dingy downtown GI bar, is transformed into a hip underground nightclub where it isn't unusual to find leather-clad patrons with green or magenta hair.

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From "People Who Died," (Jim Carroll appreciation, San Diego Reader, Sept. 23, 2009):

"Carroll ... gave several San Diego readings in those years, from SDSU’s Backdoor to a tiny downtown dive called Saigon Palace."

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