Atomic Cafe (diner)

The Atomic Cafe was a diner located at 422 East First Street in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles, California.

[3] This was mainly because the proprietor's daughter, "Atomic Nancy" Matoba, covered most of the interior walls and ceiling with posters and fliers for punk rock bands.

[citation needed] In addition the jukebox was a combination of punk singles, new wave music, classic rock and roll, standards, and songs in Japanese.

[5] The building that housed the Atomic Cafe was demolished in January 2015 to create a new subway station as part of the Regional Connector.

The Atomic Cafe appears briefly in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder and in the Lionel Richie video "Running with the Night" of the same year.