Today we’d like to introduce you to Charlie Scola.
Hi Charlie, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
How it all began
16 Years Old Started following a diagram and setting up rooms for the next event at a Banquet Center with 7 Banquet halls and a hotal in New Jersey. Soon I became a waiter, at 19 years old I Became the Youngest Maître D’ at the 3 Banquet Centers that the Town & Campus Banquet Center (T&C) Hotel Owned. I grew up in Suites and Tuxedo’s. I was on a roll; I found a Career that I Fell in love would span for over 53 years and still going. Feeling Blessed to find a career that would give opportunities I never dreamed of.
At 20 I became an Assistant manager at the T&C. At 21 I was Designing Events and Partys Interaction with the Clients. After the Events were over Many of Us would head over to New York to clubs like Regimes and Studio 54, we always got in because we were dressed to the 9’ and our Clients Connections.
At 23 I bought my first restaurant with my brother Mike. Two Banquet Halls, Disco Lounge, and a restaurant that I converted to showcase with Singing Waiter and Waitress singing Show tunes for the Dinner crowed. At 24 ½ we had a kitchen fire under insured we lost it all. I move to California Hermosa Beach in 1979. What a time to live at the beach
Got a Job at Laird Studios commissary, the Front Offices and the Building resembled the Gone with the Wind Mansion. Parts of Gone with the Wind were filmed at Laird Studios.
They were also shooting a ‘Boy’s Life that would be renamed ET Steven Spielberg Film, at the same time Sylvester Stallone was working on the choreography next door to the studio commissary for Rocky Three with Mr. T.
Michael Landon was filming interior shots of little house of the prairie, as Steve Martin was filing Dead Men Don’t Were Plaid
Shortly After that I opened my own Party Planning/Catering Company with my Partner Ilene. We Ran Restaurants in Upscale Private Health Clubs
The Rest is History, Partys for Hugh Heffner Playboy, James Cameron, Marc Gurvitz, Bill Maher, Universal Studios Grand Opening 7000 Guest, Soul Festival 15,000 people over 3 days, Scare LA at the Los Angeles Convention Center for 14,000 people over 2 days. Events in Las Vegas. And the Ball Keep Rolling
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
business got slow during the Desert Storm Was in 1991, Rodney King Riots 1992, Northridge Earthquake 1994,
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
we offered Amazing Theme Partys, Creative Cocktails, Upscale food and Excellent Staff Service
Contact Info:
- Website: https://charliescola.com
- Instagram: @PartyCharlieinc
- Facebook: Charlie Scola
- LinkedIn: Charlie Scola
- Youtube: @PartyCharlie1
