11/22/2025
Management at the Cozy Inn is staffing up to accommodate TikTok-driven crowds, but the place has been slinging drinks in Culver City long before social media. The building has been here since 1930.
Before it was the Cozy, it was a restaurant called La Cubanita, and when it crossed over to sell just booze it became a favorite for local cops, remembers bar manager Cathy Pellet.
"If they got a little too drunk, their fellow policemen would strip them and throw them under the shuffleboard table, and paint them in mustard and ketchup and toenail polish," she says laughing. "When they woke up, it was very funny."
Original reporting by Danielle Chiriguayo
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