In this photo, we’re looking east along the 8800 block of the Sunset Strip (Horn Ave to San Vicente Blvd.) The view hasn’t changed that much since 1936 but unfortunately, the architecture isn’t nearly so quirky and interesting as it is here. On the right-hand side, we can juuuuuust see a vertical neon sigh for the Young’s Market building, which was divided in the 1940s (probably by Mickey Cohen and his thugs.) These days, one half is Terner’s Liquor and the other half is the Viper Room.
Here is another view of much the same stretch of the Sunset Strip, 1941:
And this is what the 8800 block from San Vicente Blvd looks like (January 2018):
In this photo, we’re looking east along the 8800 block of the Sunset Strip (Horn Ave to San Vicente Blvd.) The view hasn’t changed that much since 1936 but unfortunately, the architecture isn’t nearly so quirky and interesting as it is here. On the right-hand side, we can juuuuuust see a vertical neon sigh for the Young’s Market building, which was divided in the 1940s (probably by Mickey Cohen and his thugs.) These days, one half is Terner’s Liquor and the other half is the Viper Room.
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