Without a motorcar to help us, it’s hard to pinpoint when this photo of The Players Club and Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip was taken. Movie director, Preston Sturges, opened the nightclub in 1940, so I’m guessing it’s not long after that because the sign directing people to the parking lot up the hill looks fairly new. With no minimum, no cover, and parking, it seems like a good deal to me. The Chateau Marmont is still around, of course, but The Players lasted until the mid ‘50s. Its current incarnation is decent Mexican restaurant called Pink Taco. You can’t miss it—it’s VERY pink!

Roughly that same view in July 2016: