1932: Drag Star Karyl Norman at Cafe La Boheme

On Sept. 21, 1932, Karyl Norman (né: George Paduzzi), a cross-dressing performer who billed himself as “the Creole Fashion Plate”, […]

Cock ‘n Bull 8: RIP

The End Richard Bare was among the dozens of current and former regulars who were on hand on October 22, […]

Note: This article was written in 2014 and originally published on the “Playground to the Stars” website. The Viper Room, […]

Previous image Next image Scan of a Club Flamingo program provided by JD Doyle at Queer Music Heritage. The Rarest […]

BECOMING WEST HOLLYWOOD TONGVA PEOPLE: Tongva People lived nearby in a village called “Kawee’nga”(“Place of the fox”) and that the […]

Thrombosis After dinner with Glesca in their villa on June 30, 1945, Alla Nazimova suffered a coronary thrombosis – a […]

Ten Mile Zone The Japanese air bombardment of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor began at five minutes after […]

As the 1930s came to an end a series of celebrity nightclubs opened on the Sunset Strip that became popular […]

The Ship Cafe The first time Alla Nazimova met Rudolph Valentino it did not go well. It was a chance […]

The Players Club was unusual among the celebrity nightclubs on the Sunset Strip in that it was owned by a […]