Bongo Boards

★★★★★ · Shot location information, etc. · bkengland · 2005-07-31

This was filmed at the poolside of the Rickey's Hyatt House hotel complex in Palo Alto at El Camino and Arastradero Road. The complex is about to be razed (still standing as of July 2005). The Bongo Boards that appear in the film clip are the original type, which was patented in June 1955, so the clip is probably from shortly after that.

★★★★★ · Universal Newsreel Volume 26, Number 511, 10/22/1953 · Gaius Petronius · 2010-11-13

Just to clear up confusion on the date, this is an excerpt from: Universal Newsreel Volume 26, Number 511, 10/22/1953 ARC Identifier 2662616 / Local Identifier 200-UN-26-511 ARC Description: BONGO BOARD PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA - The bongo board is all the rage. All you have to do is to keep the board balanced on a cylinder without breaking an ankle.

★★★★ · Bongo Bingo! · Spuzz · 2005-12-30

You don¡¯t have to be a model to enjoy BONGO BOARDS! But it sure helps though. All the girls we see are female. Some of them do this.. uh.. trick quite well. And I love the crash ending! Probably the same fate awaited the investors