Johnny Depp's Hidden Castle on the Sunset Strip
Johnny Depp
Mt. Kalmia
Mt. Kalmia
Mt. Kalmia from Sunset Boulevard in the 1970s
Mt. Kalmia .
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INSIDE
A Depp-Lugosi connection
Hersee Carson’s dream
Hersee goes bankrupt
• Chaos
Queen Hogan is evicted
Gary Kellgren’s dream
Johnny Depp wants privacy
FEATURED EXHIBITS

The Truth about That Famous Photo of Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald
“All photographs are accurate,” wrote the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon. “None of them is the truth.” Case in point, a photograph of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe in a nightclub in the 1950s that has gone viral recently. The story that has circulated with the photo is shrouded in myth. Here we bust the myth, and yet the story has a happy ending.
A Place Called the Garden of Allah
‘I’ll be damned if I’ll believe anyone lives in a place called the Garden of Allah.’ – Thomas Wolfe, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 26, 1937
The most complete history available of the Garden of Allah Hotel, which for 32 year was an oasis of sophisticated hedonism in Hollywood. Its long list of celebrity guests included movie stars, world-renowned musicians, East Coast and European aristocrats and even a mobster or two.
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EXHIBITS
WEHO Vice
Rock n’ Roll
Excavating the Viper Room – Early History of One of the Sunset Strip’s Oldest Buildings
WEHO Vice
BECOMING WEST HOLLYWOOD












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