How did Shakey's become L.A.'s Beloved Pizza Parlor?

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We take the show on the road to an OG Shakey's in Culver City, where we sit down with John Tilley, the Creative Visionary of Shakey's, to discuss how a pizza parlor that started in Sacramento became L.A.'s favorite pizza parlor. Fun, games, merch - and off-the-cuff fun..pizza, wings, & mojos!

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0:00.0	Five minutes to eat as many slices as possible
0:04.0	or whoever finishes the pizza first.
0:07.5	Aavier making it happen.
0:09.0	Kevin enjoying the pizza.
0:11.0	Let's go.
0:13.0	Working through.
0:15.0	And yes, this is very pizza-heavy, cheese-heavy pizza.
0:19.0	Yo! heavy cheese heavy pizza.
0:34.6	Yo, welcome to another episode of In A Minute with Evan Lovett, coming to you live, actually live, from Shakey's Pizza Parlor here in Culver City. Now look,
0:39.0	Shankies, as far as I'm concerned, is the heart of Los Angeles.
0:42.3	This is where everybody can come, rub elbows, drink a pitcher of beer or soda or water,
0:48.9	whatever your choice is.
0:50.4	But pizza, chicken mojo's, enjoy after a ballgame.
0:55.7	Enjoy watching a ballgame.
0:57.2	Let the kids run around and play some games.
0:59.8	Have some fun.
1:00.6	I'm very happy to be here.
1:02.3	And I'm very happy to just have this partnership with Shakey's.
1:06.7	Great friends, great people, great pizza, great chicken and great mojos.
1:12.0	And so what we're gonna do is celebrate the Shaky's LA Legacy.
1:15.9	This really is a great, great company
1:18.8	run by some fantastic people who have been here for a long time.
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