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2 unusual facts about Mabuhay Gardens


Juan Oro Rojo

The family performed as the Sunday house band for weekly stage shows at the Mabuhay Gardens nightclub, backed up celebrity artists from the Philippines for concerts or studio recordings, and played on TV shows, Amapola's Fiesta Filipina, and Something Pinoy.

Les Nickelettes

Evolving a more structured format the group created an original cabaret revue and was the first new wave act to play at the famed Fab Mab then known as the Mabuhay Gardens dinner club in 1975.


Johnny Strike

In 1977 they began wearing police uniforms and putting on their own shows at a Filipino supper club in North Beach called the Mabuhay Gardens prompting mentions in Herb Caen's column.


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