Family snapshot outside Mocambo nightclub, 8588 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood (undated)

Family snapshot outside Mocambo nightclub, 8588 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood (undated)And from the Just Someone’s Family Snapshot Album, comes this bunch (Dad, Mom, little Betty, and the widowed mother-in-law) who were (I’m totally guessing) on vacation in Los Angeles and asked a passer-by to take their photo outside one of the most famous nightclubs on the Sunset Strip. And that’s because they’d read about how all the glamourous movie stars spent their evenings there living the high life. Actually, the Mocambo sign is bigger than I’ve always imagined and let’s be honest, if it were me, I’d want my photo taken outside Mocambo, too. (This photo is undated but Mocambo was open from 1941 to 1958.)

8588 Sunset Blvd is now occupied by a fancy Equinox gym. This image is from November 2021.

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5 responses to “Family snapshot outside Mocambo nightclub, 8588 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood (undated)”

  1. Gina Susan Sanderson says:

    Is this the same building?

  2. Bill Wolfe says:

    Does anyone know why the two “o’s” in Mocambo are in the font used here? There must have been an intent to convey some sort of meaning, but I can’t figure out what it might have been.

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