Tag Archives: Sunset Blvd
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
Looking east on Sunset Boulevard from around Argyle Avenue, Los Angeles, 1931
A couple of weeks ago I posted a photo of Sunset Blvd looking east from Serrano Ave in 1931. The width and emptiness of Sunset was as striking in that photo as it is in this. Here we’re seeing Sunset … Continue reading
Sherry’s Restaurant on the Sunset Strip, scene of an assassination attempt on mob boss Mickey Cohen, July 19, 1949
Sherry’s restaurant, at 9039 Sunset Boulevard was one of the Sunset Strip nightspots of the late 1940s, not just popular with movie stars, also with mobsters. In July of 1949, those movie stars learned that mixing with the mob was … Continue reading
Looking east on Sunset Blvd from Serrano Ave, Los Angeles, 1931
Imagine a Los Angeles where all the main thoroughfares were as wide open as Sunset Blvd was when this photo was taken in 1931. We’re looking east from Serrano Ave and not a single car is in the eastbound lane. … Continue reading
The Crosby Building, 9028 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, 1946
This is a 1946 photo of the Crosby Building at 9028 Sunset Blvd, at the western end of the Sunset Strip. It got that name from Bing Crosby whose company was headquartered there from 1936 to 1977. More than “just … Continue reading
Bizarre car accident at Sunset Blvd and Westgate Ave, Brentwood, Los Angeles, 1955
The next time you have a bad day, ask yourself if it’s a run-your-car-up-a-telephone-wire bad. You have to wonder how fast this motorist was going as she (it was 63-year-old woman) turned off Sunset Blvd and ran her car up … Continue reading
Schwab’s Pharmacy, 8024 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 1945
I always get a kick out of finding a photo of Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Blvd that I’ve never seen before. This one is dated 1945. Past the palm tree on the right was the Garden of Allah Hotel. If … Continue reading
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Exhibitor’s Herald, December 25, 1926, announcing the plan for The Garden of Alla(h) Hotel on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles
You’d think that after a dozen years researching and writing about the Garden of Allah Hotel, that somewhere somehow I’d have come across this announcement in the Exhibitor’s Herald, December 25, 1926 that Alla Nazimova planned to turn her movie-star … Continue reading
The main driveway of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, circa 1925
In a city like Los Angeles, where everything always seems to be in a state of flux and change and “progress”, it’s nice to know there are some places that rarely change and look pretty much as they did 100+ … Continue reading
Looking west along Sunset Blvd from Highland Ave, Hollywood, 1922
In this photo we’re looking west along Sunset Blvd from Highland Ave, right in the heart of Hollywood. This was taken in 1922 when apparently the city saw no need to paint traffic lines on the road. What could possibly … Continue reading