page_title: Palomino Club (North Hollywood)
section_title: Closure
hierarchical_section_title: Palomino Club (North Hollywood) / History / Closure
caption_attribution_description: English: Neon sign from the defunct Palomino Club displayed at the Valley Relics Museum
context_page_description: The Palomino Club was a music venue in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. It opened in 1949 and was the best-known country music club in Los Angeles for decades, closing in 1995. It was called "Country Music's most important West Coast club" by the Los Angeles Times and named national Club of the Year by "Performance" touring talent trade magazine. It featured such performers as the Everly Brothers, Rick Nelson, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Buck Owens, Patsy Cline, Delaney Bramlett, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Johnny Carver, Jerry Jeff Walker, Hoyt Axton, Tanya Tucker, and Willie Nelson, and was also a popular hangout for other country entertainers such as Merle Haggard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Lewis played there at least once a year from 1957 to 1987. Elvis Presley at least once strolled in unheralded and took in a set.
  In the late 1980s and 1990s, the Palomino began to feature more rock acts, including many artists associated with SST Records.
context_section_description: After the death of both original owners, Billy and Tommy Thomas (due to congenital cardiac defects), the club struggled with Tommy's wife Sherry, a former Palomino waitress, in charge. The Palomino could not maintain the earlier momentum, as it became economically strapped and was no longer able to attract high caliber acts in such a small venue. On the club's last night in business in 1995, three blues acts from southern California closed the Palomino — Jimmy O, Blue By Nature, and Stevi Lynn & Bordercrossing.
  After the closure, The Palomino Club's large exterior neon sign went missing and was thought to have been lost, until the sign resurfaced in a warehouse in Chatsworth in 2014. Scott McNatt, the owner of the sign, realizing the sign's historical significance, contacted a historian and preservationist named Tommy Gelinas to save and restore the sign. The Palomino's neon has been restored and is currently on display at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth, California
caption: Sign displayed at the Valley Relics Museum
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