La Pinata
L.A. is a pinata town. There’s no need to buy a junky 12″ pinata from the party supply store for $20 when you can get the real-deal-Holyfield custom made for the same price.
My friend got a Buzz Lightyear pinata for her son’s birthday and after TWENTY kids beat that thing it was still intact, unheard of! Forget those new fangled politically correct PULL STRING pinatas, we are old skool and like to beat ours to death with a stick. So I asked her where she got such a wonderous virtually indestructible pinata and she pointed me to La Pinata party supply.
La Pinata is located in Venice, great for Westsiders who don’t want to drive all the way out to east L.A. to get their pinata on. The store is small (they’re moving now) and nondescript.
There are a few pinatas hanging on the ceiling, nothing special but what you’ll notice is their size. These are no ordinary pinatas, they were all at least 4 feet tall! I showed them a picture I drew of O.G. just to see what they’d come up with and I asked to please keep it small. Um…they don’t do small.
When I went to pick up the pinata I could not stop laughing. It was so cute and HUGE but obviously perfectly well made. It was so large I had a hard time wrangling it into my car and I had half a mind to strap her into the passenger seat just so I could take the carpool lane on the freeway.
They have really great ready made pinatas from Disney Princesses to Cars but can also do most anything custom, as is obvious from my Grandma pinata. The pinatas are all under $20 (unbelievable!) and the custom ones, depending on how complicated, are only around $25, quite a steal.
I brought the O.G. pinata home and propped her up by the door and every morning I could hear the kids scream, ‘AHHH! Great Grandma pinata scared me!” Yeah, she startled me a bit too when I walked around the corner. The pinata is bigger than the kids! I took the O.G. pinata to her surprise party where everyone thought it was hilarious, the little lady fit right in!
I will be coming back to La Pinata for all my party needs, or if I just get lonely and need another O.G. to hang out with me.
La Pinata Party Supply
1711 Lincoln Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
(they are in the process of moving down the street)
