article_snippet: I could see why the teenagers of the 1950s would get 'bugged' driving 'up and down the same old strip'.
article_snippet: When I arrived Louie Louie, a 1963 hit by The Kingsmen, was playing over speakers in the overhang.
article_snippet: This was the very 'hamburger stand' where Brian Wilson saw a girl pull up in a girl father's Thunderbird and had the inspiration for Fun Fun Fun.
article_snippet: Legend has it that the architecture was based on the image of a bunch of singles stacked on the spindle of a record player.
article_snippet: The night I visited, Arcade Fire were playing a promotional set on a specially built platform outside the tower.
article_snippet: That's Why God Made The Radio.
article_snippet: It was here that Brian Wilson notoriously built Brian Wilson a huge sandbox in the living room to stimulate Brian Wilson creative juices.
article_snippet: Appropriately the museum cafe, Johnny Rockets, is a 50s-style diner with red plastic seating, chrome surfaces and neon signs.
article_snippet: a group even recorded a song about it in 2012.