- History·Los Angeles County
Nazimova's Garden
At 8152 Sunset Boulevard, on the Los Angeles side of the old county line, there stood for thirty two years the Garden of Allah: a main house and about two dozen villas around a pool on two and a half …
- History·Los Angeles County
Riot on the Strip
Pandora's Box was a one storey wooden building about the size of a house, lavender stuccoed with bold orange and white stripes down one side and its name hand lettered in red, standing on a concrete t…
- History·Los Angeles County
The County Strip
The Sunset Strip exists because of a line on a map. A mile and a half of Sunset Boulevard, running west from around Havenhurst Drive to the Beverly Hills line, lay in unincorporated Los Angeles County…
- History·Los Angeles County
The Discovery Myth
For half a century the most famous drugstore in America stood at 8024 Sunset Boulevard. Schwab's Pharmacy, in business there from 1932, was where the movie colony filled its prescriptions, nursed its …
- Entertainment & Sports·Los Angeles County
The Go Go Cage
The Whisky a Go Go opened at 8901 Sunset in January 1964, in a converted bank building, taking its name from a Paris nightclub that had been calling itself the Whisky a Gogo since the 1940s. What the …
- History·Los Angeles County
The Wilkerson Clubs
Billy Wilkerson published the Hollywood Reporter and used the trade paper's leverage to build the Sunset Strip's most glamorous rooms. The Cafe Trocadero opened in 1934 at 8610 Sunset and became the p…