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 Brian Berrebbi Host: When the A.V. Club travels we always make time to visit pop culture landmarks. If something memorable happened in the world of film, TV, books or music we want to go there. We’re not just tourists, we’re pop pilgrims. A group of hardened criminals have breakfast, drink coffee and discuss the meaning of Madonna’s Like a Virgin and the virtues of tipping. The opening scene of Reservoir Dogs shot at our next location Pat and Lorraine’s Coffee Shop. This is the table where they— ? Unidentified Female: Yeah. This is the table where they filmed. Brian Berrebbi: Were you around then? Unidentified Female: Yeah. I had just started working here. A lot of people from Europe come over here just to see where this movie was filmed. Brian Berrebbi: Yeah. Unidentified Female: And possibly people wait to sit on this table. Brian Berrebbi: Sitting with me is former coworker from Video Archives, Music Consultant and old friend of Quentin Tarantino Chuck Kelley. Chuck how did you know Quentin Tarantino? Chuck Kelley Music Consultant, Pulp Fiction: Well when I was in high school I heard friends about a cool video store in Manhattan Beach or cool people were working there and one of them was you know this guy that looked like pompadour like a long black trench coat and like kind of like a rockabilly and it was Quentin. Brian Berrebbi: The popular conception of Quentin Tarantino among other things is having an encyclopedic knowledge of film. Do you feel like that’s where he got his education? Chuck Kelley: Of the video stores in the movie theatres, yeah. That’s where he got his education about everything, about life, that’s where he learned how to live. Brian Berrebbi: When did Reservoir Dogs start to come together? Chuck Kelley: I think you know a lot of things happened but it just didn’t seem like things have been closed before like maybe Quentin had met somebody else who was going to do something for him but then it was like ones Harvey Keitel got a tat and Harvey was paying to fly Quentin out to New York to audition actors out there. It seemed like okay yeah this will probably happen. Brian Berrebbi: Yeah. Chuck Kelley: So like a Virgin speech. Brian Berrebbi: Which Quentin Delivers. Chuck Kelley: Which he delivers, Jerry of Big Jerry Fame said that he heard these guys Jeff and Steve McDonald, my best friends actually. Jeff and Steve McDonald were been Red Cross. He said that he heard a conversation at video archives between Quentin and the McDonald brothers where the McDonald brothers told him that theory. I don’t know if it’s true or not. Steve: Come on throw in a buck? Steve: Nuh-ah I don’t tip. And then the no tipping thing you know I went out to copy with Quentin many times and yeah he was kind of selective about his tipping and I do remember a conversation. Harvey: “Waitressing is the number one occupation for female non-college graduates in this country. It’s the one job basically, any woman can get and make a living on. The reason is because of the tips.” Steve: Fuck all that. I saw that entire conversation in real life before it made it on to a film. “Come on you cough up a buck you cheap bastard” Brian Berrebbi: Have you seen that scene, what do you think of that? Unidentified Female: It was cool. The more money in my pocket, the better. “Thank you” Brian Berrebbi: So go to LuxuriaMusic.com. Thanks chuck for sitting down with us and— Chuck Kelley: Yes. Come to Los Angeles everything is here we’ve got all of the film locations you’ll ever need to see. Pat and Lorraine’s Coffee Shop 4720 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles, CA Behind the Scenes with FIAT The Reservoir Dogs warehouse was a storage facility for funeral caskets. It has since been demolished. Tarantino lifted the idea of naming characters after colors from the 1974 film The Takign of Pelham One Two Three. James Woods supposedly fired his agent after learning that he had been offered a role in Reservoir Dogs, but hadn’t told about it.