This photo shows us the signs for the haberdasher and hairdresser inside Sunset House, which was the Hollywood Reporter Building at 6715 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles. I wish I’d found this photo 10 years ago—one of my novels protagonists works at the Hollywood Reporter and I may have set a scene or two at the in-house salons. How terribly convenient it must have been for publisher Billy Wilkerson to have a haberdasher and a hairdresser in the same building! The building is still around and might possibly soon attain Historical Cultural Monument status.
This photo wsa taken much later:
How it currently looks after a stint as the headquarters for LA Weekly:
This photo shows us the signs for the haberdasher and hairdresser inside Sunset House, which was the Hollywood Reporter Building at 6715 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles. I wish I’d found this photo 10 years ago—one of my novels protagonists works at the Hollywood Reporter and I may have set a scene or two at the in-house salons. How terribly convenient it must have been for publisher Billy Wilkerson to have a haberdasher and a hairdresser in the same building! The building is still around and might possibly soon attain Historical Cultural Monument status.
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