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A bright pink 1957 Lincoln Premiere pulls up outside Ciro’s nightclub, 8433 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, circa late 1950s
From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, Ciro’s at 8433 Sunset Blvd in the heart of the Sunset Strip was the premier nightclub in all of Los Angeles. In this photo, a bright pink 1957 Lincoln Premiere pulls into … Continue reading
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Ciro’s branded bottle of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Following on from yesterday’s post of the Hollywood Heritage Museum exhibit – OUT WITH THE STARS – I was sent these photos by Mark M. who wrote to tell me that when his father got out of the service he … Continue reading
Matchbook collection from 15 vintage Los Angeles restaurants and bars
Here’s a quick pop quiz for you: Of the 15 LA restaurants represented here in Tara Gordon’s photo, which ones have you (a) heard of, or (b) not heard of, or (c) visited personally? I’ve heard of them all but … Continue reading
The former Ciro’s nightclub now known as It’s Boss, 8433 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, 1967
My focus on vintage Los Angeles peters out at the end of the 1950s, the twilight years of the studio system era. And so it came as a surprise (to me, at least) to learn that Ciro’s, which from 1940 … Continue reading
Interior shot of the stage at Ciro’s nightclub, 8433 Sunset Blvd on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, Los Angeles
One of the stops on my (very busy) time travel machine trip will be to Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip. Hollywood in its golden-era heyday was liberally sprinkled nightclubs. From 1940 to 1957, one of the most popular with the … Continue reading
Aerial shot of Ciro’s nightclub on a deserted Sunset Strip at night, West Hollywood, July 19, 1957
In this aerial shot of the 8400 block of the Sunset Strip, the building in the center isn’t of any great consequence. It’s the building behind it that was one of the most famous nightclubs in Los Angeles: Ciro’s, at … Continue reading
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Club Seville, 8433 Sunset Blvd, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, 1938
Don’t let the rather innocuous looking building that housed the Club Seville on the Sunset Strip fool you. It started out life as the Clover Club, where high-stakes gamblers like David O. Selznick and Harry Cohn lost their shirts before … Continue reading
Nat King Cole plays Ciro’s nightclub, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, 1945
The Hollywood Reporter’s Billy Wilkerson opening Ciro’s nightclub in January 1940 heralded the era of the great Hollywood nightclubs (Mocambo opened a year later.) At one point Ciro’s had a Pompeii Room featuring a Vesuvius cocktail. Almost immediately, the place … Continue reading
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Night shot of Ciro’s nightclub at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, 1942
This atmospheric night shot of Ciro’s nightclub on the Sunset Strip is hard to date because the exterior of the place didn’t change much over the years it was open (1940 to 1957.) All we have to go on are … Continue reading
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A view from the stage of Ciro’s nightclub on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, 1950
While researching a scene set at the closing night of Ciro’s, the Sunset Strip nightclub (December 31st, 1957) for my 9th and final (gulp!) novel in Hollywood’s Garden of Allah series, I came across this photo. It gives us the … Continue reading