Longtime LA Times music columnist, Richard Hilburn, describes his encounter with Bono on March 15th, 1981 following a U2 show at a country club in Reseda.
"And I sat down with Bono shortly after that show, and he wanted to go to Bob's Big Boy.. in Toluca Lake.. because he heard about car hops and things in California. And he had this curiousity about American culture..."