In this photo we’re looking east along Sunset Blvd toward Crescent Heights Blvd, which is the eastern end of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. It was taken in 1967, and that striped building was Pandora’s Box, a nightclub and coffeehouse in a triangle-shaped island, and had been ground zero for a late-1966 counter-culture protest known as “the hippie riots.” In the background we can partially see the sign for Schwab’s Pharmacy, as well as a red sign for a place called Steak’n’Stein, which was a later incarnation of Googie’s Coffee Shop. And on the left we can see part of the sign for the Lytton Center of the Visual Arts which, along with the bank, occupied the old Garden of Allah Hotel site.

Here is the exit door of Pandora’s Box. Those colors and the lettering are so 60s, aren’t they?

This is a photo taken during “the hippie riots.” They were protesting perceived authoritarian overreach.

Here’s another shot taken outside outside the Lytton Savings and Loan building with the zigzag roof:

For more information on the protests, see the LA Public Library’s blog article on it.

After Pandora’s Box closed, it became the office for the Hollywood Realty Company.

This is how that view looked in May 2024: