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For Saints & Sinners owner/designer Bobby Green, mimicking the ’70s means resuscitating the decade in whole—for better or worse. “Ninety percent of the ’70s,” he says, “was hideous.” When he created Saints & Sinners, which opened in early 2006, his objective was to cull the gaudy design elements from his ’70s childhood and “make them cool again.” That’s why the place is adorned with cherub statues, sparkling white rock partitions, vintage gold-vein mirrors and a mock fireplace. The tackiness even extends to the music: If you stop in on a Thursday, which is Satanic Swingers night, you’ll hear the DJ sneaking in bits from ’70s porn soundtracks. The atmosphere is so evocative, you half-expect a butterfly-collared sleazebag to breeze in and dump a gleaming heap of coke on the bar. But that’s just what Green wants. “It was a seedy era,” he says adoringly. Green loves it so much that his next venue, opening this fall in Silverlake and tentatively named Stinker’s, will be a seedy roadhouse inspired by ’70s trucker movies. Among its design touches: a wall of vintage beer cans.
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