1936: Then and Now: Sunset Plaza Apartments, Luxury Living at the Sunset Strip’s Historic Core
The Sunset Strip in its era as Hollywood’s playground was not only an entertainment zone where stars dined, drank and […]
1949: Modern Screen Goes Inside the Sunset Strip’s Mocambo Nightclub
These photos were published in the January 1949 issue of Modern Screen magazine illustrating an article titled, “The Mocambo Affairs,” […]
1921: Excavating the Viper Room – Early History of One of the Sunset Strip’s Oldest Buildings
Note: This article was written in 2014 and originally published on the “Playground to the Stars” website. The Viper Room, […]
The History of the Sunset Strip in Five Rollicking, Animated Minutes
Interview with Hans Fjellestad, Director of the Documentary, “Sunset Strip” The Hollywood Reporter called Hans Fjellestad “the Ken Burns of […]
1925: The Sunset Strip Was Once a Gamblers’ Playground. Could Its Future Be a Return to the Past?
With a slew of new upscale hotels coming to the Sunset Strip and the number of visitors to the boulevard […]
1955: Videotape Recording Invented at the Bing Crosby Building on the Sunset Strip
In 1936 Bing Crosby was one of the most successful entertainers in America. He was known as “crooner,” a specialist […]
1970: Sunset Strip Neighbors Launched Campaign to Stop Tower Records’ Opening
Tower Records was such a fixture on the Sunset Strip that for an entire generation of music fans it must […]
2014: Bloody Gang Violence on the Sunset Strip in 1949 Repeats Itself
The attempted murder of a rap mogul Suge Knight in a Sunset Strip nightclub early Sunday morning has striking parallels […]
1932: Ronald Reagan Moves to the Sunset Strip
It seems counterintuitive and yet it’s true. Ronald Reagan, future 40th president of the United States known for his stolid, […]
1934: Cafe Trocadero Set the Style for Hollywood Glamour on the Sunset Strip
There were dozens of nightclubs operating at various times along the Sunset Strip in its early years – the 1920s […]