Eddie’s Kit Kat Club In 1982
Get out your bucket list! The Kit Kat is here.
This is a true crime blog and much of the theme centers around John Holmes. Thus, we are all a bit thick skinned, no pun intended, when it comes to seeing skin. If you don’t want to see clothed strippers (early 80s strippers), then go no further. You’ve been warned.
That said, the Kit Kat Club was a gentlemen’s club owned by Eddie Nash. I am not sure if Greg Diles worked here, but Samuel Lawton Diles, his little brother did. You see, Sam did some time stemming from an assault at the Kit Kat Club. He smacked a city councilman’s drunken brother in the head with a gun. He did some prison time for this assault.
Of all Eddie’s clubs, the few that I could not find photos for are the Soul’d Out Club, catering to black folks, and the Kit Kat Club. I can now cross Kit Kat from the bucket list.
Photo credits: Gary Leonard from the classic newspaper “Los Angeles Herald-Examiner”. RIP Herald!
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John 10:46 am on October 10, 2013 Permalink |
LA Times: 1986.
Police also suspected Diles’ brother, Samuel Lawton Diles.
Samuel Diles, now 34, had been a bouncer at one of Nash’s clubs, the Kit Kat in Hollywood.
In 1983, he was arrested after police said he hit Michael Nolan, the brother of Assemblyman Patrick Nolan, in the head with a gun. Diles went to prison on an assault conviction.
criticextraordinaire 4:13 pm on October 11, 2013 Permalink |
John, have you ever found any info on Tracy McCourt, the guy who drove the Ford Granada to the hit on Eddie’s place? I saw some stuff where he did time for various petty crimes well thru adulthood, but wonder if anybody knows more about him. He seems to be the odd man out from the Wonderland Gang.
John 7:23 am on October 14, 2013 Permalink
Well, I have posted the post-Wonderland crimes that he committed and a few other things. I almost had his daughter and ex wife for an interview but they never responded back the second time. Do a search on McCourt or Tracy McCourt via the Search button, you’ll find more on him on this blog. Thanks for the feedback too, it’s always appreciated.
Sheila 12:48 pm on December 18, 2013 Permalink
I read where he left CA and went to college in Kentucky. He moved to Colorado Springs and in 2002 he did some time for selling drugs again. He was successful in a Phone business and he died in 2006 of Hep C. He is buried in Denver CO. I think you can find it on Wikipedia.
Mike 10:09 pm on April 2, 2018 Permalink |
If you watch the movie Suburbia (1983) the KIT KAT is shown from the inside. Found this post cuz I was searching for the stripper in it, which happens to be the woman in the photo with Elliot Gould.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsNTxT2R3kM Around the 1hr:25 mark.
Bonnie Brae 11:15 am on October 10, 2013 Permalink |
very cool pictoral.
localarts 12:13 pm on October 10, 2013 Permalink |
Like most successful business owners, Eddie diversified.
Baz 4:30 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink |
Hi there,
I wonder if you have any more information on the Kit Kat Club.
When it opened/closed and the address? I believe it was on Santa Monica Blvd.
I recently acquired a hand-painted advertising board that I believe came from the club.
Would be happy to send you a picture if you were interested.
Thanks
Baz
John 9:58 am on October 24, 2016 Permalink |
Hi Baz, the site of the KK Club is now the site of a Honda car dealership. That’s all I know for now, don’t have an address.
Joseph R Perry Jr 5:57 pm on September 25, 2018 Permalink |
Im Rick ..was there Butch was the Manager Ruth was the Bartender..1979-1980
John 4:37 pm on January 29, 2019 Permalink |
Hi Joseph, I would love to talk one on one, to know more about the Kit Kat. Please email the blog so we can arrange it, but only if gou want. Thx, John
Kevin 9:55 am on March 31, 2019 Permalink
I worked at the kit Kay club in Lennox on Hawthorne boulevard around 1980.
Holly Z 10:28 pm on April 20, 2020 Permalink |
I’d be curious to know if it is the same Kit Kat Club that was previously owned by a Dick Baker in 1959. My grandfather was a bartender there at one point and was robbed one night at closing. The location of this particular Kit Kat Club was 608 S. Western Ave (so near Wilshire).