The PIKME-UP was a necessary gathering place for the GBLT communities, celebrities, club kids, hipsters, musicians and artists. In the mid-1980s the coffeehouse movement in Los Angeles was beginning with wild promise. A tattered Mid-Wilshire storefront that was the PIKME-UP cafe became the prototype for the coffeehouse subculture that started as an unruly rebellion and exploded into a national phenomenon.
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