Topic: Photos
New Photo Album: A Tour of the Sunset Strip
The mile and a half stretch of Sunset between Hollywood and Beverly Hills is "The Sunset Strip" - Crescent Heights Boulevard to Doheny Drive - rock clubs, restaurants, boutiques, and "Hollywood nightspots" - some say the cutting edge of the entertainment business. Ciro's, the Mocambo and the old Trocadero are gone, as are the Garden of Allah apartments and original Schwab's Drugstore. The Whisky A Go-Go is still around (start of The Doors, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Frank Zappa) as is the Roxy. London Fog is now the Viper Room. Gazzari's is now the Key Club. There is no "77 Sunset Strip." Most of the Strip is actually in West Hollywood - in November 1984 voters in West Hollywood passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate and the area became an independent city.
This photo album, thirty-nine shots, is an idiosyncratic view on a foggy fall morning - Thursday, October 27, 2005.
See the October 30 issue of Just Above Sunset, the weekly magazine-format parent to this daily web log, for many of these shots in much higher resolution.
Samples:
Café Life - Gold Stairs at Le Dôme (now closed)
Café Life - Le Petit Four
An appropriate movie poster -
An overview - visual clutter
Links:
The Sunset Strip (Wikipedia)
Promo from the West Hollywood Convention and Visitors Bureau
Notes on '77 Sunset Strip' (1958-64, ABC Television, 205 60-minute episodes)
More notes '77 Sunset Strip'
Posted by Alan at 17:01 PDT
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