Beetle House La, a beloved pub known to celebrate Halloween every day of the year, asks for support because it faces a serious financial crisis that threatens its future.
The bar and Gothic restaurant, which opened for the first time in Los Angeles in 2017, launched a campaign to collect public donations after a series of unexpected setbacks including withdrawing investors and the alleged theft.
According to the GoFundme page established by the Foundation, financial problems began when the main investor failed to provide the promised financing, followed by the alleged theft of more than $ 60,000 by a former manager. Malcon says that these losses have doubled through recent forest fires in the region and the broader turmoil in the Los Angeles region, which affected traffic and sales.
The campaign says: “We had an investor who did not put the money he agreed to, which we left with a great hole in our financial resources,” the campaign says. “In addition, we had a manager stealing more than $ 60,000 from us. These two things happened in a short time frame, followed by Los Angeles fires and the current chaos that occur in Los Angeles that greatly affected our business.”
The beetle House founded by Zach Neil was founded in New York City in 2016, and later expanded to Los Angeles the following year. This concept is built to Macabre and Whissical, inspired by characters such as Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving – although the place has no official affiliation with these artists.
Inside, the beneficiaries can expect an overwhelming atmosphere full of dim lighting, fashion employees and cocktails with a personal nature and decoration that reduces Gothic literature, cinema and external art.
Beetle House has always marketed itself as “a safe place where every gun, lewd, strange, eccentric, artist, and visitor are welcomed.”
Although survival in the Covid-19s and the previous challenges, the team behind Beetle House says they have reached the point of collapse.
“We did not ask the audience to help, not through the epidemic, not at any time,” they wrote. “For us, this is the last effort to see if we could keep this thing. Beetle House has always been a work of love … It has always been about something we loved for the society we love and for people who love what we do.” Gofundme campaign He now lives for those who want to help keep the place alive. As of this writing, donations continue to flow from fans who are eager to maintain what many describe as one of the most unique night life experiences in Los Angeles.