I don’t know who this dude is who is posing outside the Mocambo nightclub at 8588 Sunset Blvd, but the place was known as “the Nightclub’s Nightclub,” so I’m guessing he wanted to be in with the in-crowd. Opening on January 3, 1941, until it closed on June 30, 1958, Mocambo was one of the best see-and-be-seen joints on the Sunset Strip at the height of the era of glamorous nightclubs. And yet, I can’t help but wonder who designed that vertical sign behind him. It looks like they made the letters too big and had to squish them in to make them fit. It needs a do-over, if you ask me.

These days an Equinox gym occupies that site. This image is from November 2021.