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People's Choice Award Winner, "Best Sports Bar"
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"IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND TODAY, YOU HAVE TO SEARCH YESTERDAY" ~ PEARL BUCK
Legends History
Legends Sports Bar was established in 1979 by then Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Dennis Harrah and businessman John Morris. The impact Legends has had on Southern California has been tremendous. Sports fans in the Los Angeles area have an unrivaled venue to cheer their team to victory. It's been an awesome twenty nine years, and there isn't any doubt we'll enjoy it for another twenty nine.
June 21, 2005
The day tragedy struck Belmont Shore. In the early morning hours, bad wiring starts an electrical fire in the kitchen of Legends. Firefighters arrive and are able to salvage very little of the memorabilia that once populated the walls of the Long Beach landmark. Legends lies in ruins. Irreplaceable sports history has been lost.
For many, their way of life has been turned upside down. A legend is not something that just goes away. Fire may have taken the Legends we all learned to know and love, but fire is also what led to the new era that started in December, 2007. After many obstacles and countless delays, a Legend is reborn. A new era has started. Legends' spirit remained. Take part in a little piece of history. Come see why we are "The Granddaddy of all Sports Bars".
The day tragedy struck Belmont Shore. In the early morning hours, bad wiring starts an electrical fire in the kitchen of Legends. Firefighters arrive and are able to salvage very little of the memorabilia that once populated the walls of the Long Beach landmark. Legends lies in ruins. Irreplaceable sports history has been lost.
For many, their way of life has been turned upside down. A legend is not something that just goes away. Fire may have taken the Legends we all learned to know and love, but fire is also what led to the new era that started in December, 2007. After many obstacles and countless delays, a Legend is reborn. A new era has started. Legends' spirit remained. Take part in a little piece of history. Come see why we are "The Granddaddy of all Sports Bars".
A Dennis Harrah Story
Invited as a guest by his one time Los Angeles Ram teammate Jackie Slater to attend the recent NFL Hall of Fame ceremony, Dennis Harrah thoroughly enjoyed his three day visit to Canton, Ohio. During the introductions of Slater and another Ram teammate, Jack Youngblood, Harrah heard his name mentioned in the speeches given by Youngblood, Slater and the gentlemen who introduced Slater, John Robinson. "There I am sitting in a crowd of thousands of people right next to my wife, two sons and mom and dad at this great event, and my name keeps popping up," relates the six time Pro Bowl guard who played 13 seasons with the Rams and retired in 1988.
"What a great feeling, at least people haven't forgotten me."
How could anyone forget Dennis Harrah, as colorful a character who ever played for the Rams. A 6-foot5, 280 pound bulldog of a blocker who helped escort Eric Dickerson to an NFL record 2,104 yards in 1984. Dennis Harrah was a player who scratched, clawed, gouged, fought and gave every ounce of his energy on the football field. Dennis was a wise-cracking, fun loving party guy of "legendary" proportions.
Indeed, it would seem only just and proper that one day Dennis Harrah is able to return to Canton not as a guest, but as a Hall of Fame inductee himself, a deserving honor considering the exemplary work he displayed during his career. "Oh, that would be nice to make it in the Hall of Fame," acknowledges Harrah. "But it's something I don't even think about, or even worry about. I'm just glad I had the opprotunity to take my two sons back to Canton, and to see some of the old guys like Fred Dryer, Mike Fanning, Vince Ferragamo, Lawrence McCutcheon, along with Slater and Youngblood. "What a blast we had, and no one enjoyed it more than Clyda Geraldine Harrah, my mom. She just loves football, and when she saw Fred Dryer, she hugged him and started hanging out with him. She had become a big fan of Freddie when he was doing the television show Hunter."Even when he was playing with the Rams, Dennis Harrah always was business oriented. He and John Morris started Legends, a sports bar and rib room. He also owned another Belmont Shore saloon called the Acapulco Inn. "I had a lot of great memories in Long Beach - at least the ones I can remember," he says.
He is now the consummate family man, doting on his wife and two sons, tending to his yard ("Killed seven rattlesnakes last year") and taking care of his two horses and two dogs. He has a natural sense of humor, and eventually would like an opprotunity to do some broadcasting. That might be in the near future, since ESPN Radio has been interested in him doing a local football show. "No one has ever called me boring," says Dennis Harrah. "And no one can ever say I've lived a boring life, except perhaps at this stage of it." Dennis Harrah was one of the most elite offensive lineman the NFL has ever seen!
