Oki-Dog: Why Is It So Fucking Fascinating?
By Ryan - Monday September 25th 2006 |
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It is true that I have a serious, perhaps too serious, fascination with Oki-Dog, the amazing day-glo shack of weirdness on north Fairfax. I consider it the tollbooth of strange guarding the border of Hollywoodland.
This Day in Oki-Dog History: 25 September 2005. The ‘Dog sported a swarthy C rating , but would be upgrading itself to a deadly B (80th percentile) come 29 September. As you might expect, Losanjealous was on the scene. Somewhat magically, said 80% would renew in January ’06.
Did bribery play a role? To be sure we must ask ourselves the most difficult of questions in times of doubt…even when we know the answers prior to asking.
From one of my all-time favorite websites:
| Inspection Date | Score | Letter Grade |
| 01/27/2006 | 80 | B |
| 09/29/2005 | 80 | B |
| 06/09/2005 | 74 | C |
have you ever actually HAD an oki-dog? they are seriously gross. although there are a couple good arcade games in there. it’s a weird place.
you mean…one of these?
Yes! They aren’t even that bad conceptually but the materials they use are disgusting. I’ll take Pink’s Poli-Bacon Burrito Dog, thank you kindly. On my way to Beck at the Element, thank you Losanjealous.
I had the big bag of fries but stumped them with my request for vinegar. I’m from Canada eh.
I use to live around the corner from Oki Dog. Whats nearly as nasty as the food, are the random people who actually hang out at Oki. Sitting out front, with what I can only presume is Mr Oki himself, smoking and eating the food on a daily basis. Seriously, if i hadn’t moved away I may have started a campaign to bulldoze the place.
ha, that joint is shaaaady. The food and the creatures that habitat the tables in and outside of the shanty like lean-to of a building.
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here i was thinking i was the only one who had a “unique” visit to the Doekie….its kinda like cheers on skid row..
fries were good in a soggy hungry way..
Were you all drunk when you ate your oki-dogs? It helps.
no i had mine at like 11am working on a nasty hangover which was probably not the way to go. it was basically breakfast.
Some 25 years ago, there was another Oki-Dog location on Santa Monica Blvd., right across the street from Astro Burger. The local punk rockers adopted the place, and after gigs at the Starwood there would be vast hordes of leather-clad hair-dyed malcontents inadvisedly consuming Oki Dogs and free kim chee (and purchasing their methedrine from the back door). It was THE punk rock meeting place in Hollywood for several years. The management even kept a couple of tables segregated from the rest during normal business hours when the place wasn’t absolutely swarming with punk rockers, and these were known as PUNK ROCK ISLAND. When pan-handling homeless punk kids showed up during the daytime with no money to buy food, they would be given free ice water and kim chee and told “YOU NO BUY NOTHING, YOU GO PUNK ROCK ISLAND!”
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Um…I actully LOVED these things. Moved away 15 years ago and miss them drastically. Even tried to make my own homeade version uncsuccesfully on several occasions. I’d rather have an Oki Dog than Prime Rib. No, I’m not kidding!
I was an Oki “ite” some 25 years ago. The one on Santa Monica blvd. I was not a punker, but a homeless young woman at the time. Oki dogs was basically a safe haven for gay and straight street urchins such as myself. Jimmy (the owner) was very good to all of us expecting nothing from us but to clean our messes up and to not cause trouble. Because of Jimmy and Oki Dog alot of us went to sleep at night with a full belly. About 3 years ago I stopped by the Fairfax store and Jimmy was there. He recognized me instantly, I introduced him to my 19 yo daughter and her room mate. He handed me $20.00 and told me to order the three of us dinner ( Yes from Oki Dog ) It brought back alot of memories sitting there eating that Oki Dog. Some bad, but mostly good.
Who knows what would have happened to me on those streets back in the day if Jimmy and Okis wasn’t there when I had no where else to go.
I will forever be greatful.
Maybe because it’s legendary in it’s own (perverse) right? As if John Waters had gotten into foodservice instead of film.God,I was one of those bitchy,neon haired miscreants.Yacked up an Oki dog after a Germs show once.I always loved them,though otherwise I’m a pretty healthy eater.Maybe they’re satisfying like a lot of other unwholesome lowbrow things;bad porn,heroin,gore movies,unprotected sex………………