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Author: Jon Ponder

Fire broke out at the historic Coast Theatre building at 8325 Santa Monica Blvd. Monday morning Oct 3, 2022 at around 4 a.m.

Early Morning Fire Hits Historic Coast Theatre Building

Jon Ponder

A fire broke out at the historic Coast Theatre building at 8325 Santa Monica Blvd. Monday morning Oct 3, 2022 […]

Dodge House

Video: 1965 Film Offers Rare Look at the Dodge Mansion in West Hollywood

Jon Ponder

Designed in 1914 and constructed in 1916, the Walter L. Dodge House blended Modern and Spanish Mission styles and was […]

Then & Now 8300 Sunset

Then and Now: Wallace Reid House and The Standard Hotel, Sunset and Sweetzer

Jon Ponder

The Wallace Reid house was one of the most attractive homes in West Hollywood’s early Hacienda Park neighborhood. The house […]

Looking east on the Sunset Strip in 1984.

Looking East on the Sunset Strip in 1984

Jon Ponder
Nude Wrestling Academy, 7740 Santa Monica Blvd., Then & Now

Nude Wrestling Academy on Santa Monica Boulevard – Then and Now

Jon Ponder
Former Garden of Allah Hotel site being cleared for Frank Gehry-designed mixed-use project

Bank Building on Garden of Allah Site Demolished to Make Way for Gehry Project

Jon Ponder

Urbanize Los Angeles: “It’s official: Hollywood’s Lytton Savings Building has met the wrecking ball, clearing the biggest obstacle to the […]

February 1970: Southern Pacific freight train passes P.J’s on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood

The Last Train Through West Hollywood

Jon Ponder

P.J’s was a famous rock club on Santa Monica Blvd. at Crescent Heights in West Hollywood. Traktur restaurant and other […]

Mock-up for Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966 © Ed Ruscha

The Getty Has Curated Ed Ruscha’s Archive of Photos of the Sunset Strip and Hollywood in ’12 Sunsets’

Jon Ponder

In 1966, decades before Google Street View, Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha mounted a motorized camera in the payload of a truck and set out to photograph every building on the Sunset Strip. He published the assemblage of photos in a grounbreaking book, Every Building on the Sunset Strip that signaled a new approach to art and photography.

Map Sunset Strip Musical History

Take a Trip along Sunset Boulevard’s Musical History

Jon Ponder

Sunset Boulevard’s long relationship with the music industry is spotlighted in this illustrated tour published by the Los Angeles Times.

Bruz Fletcher

Bruz Fletcher sings ‘Spring in Manhattan’

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  • Nude Wrestling Academy on Santa Monica Boulevard – Then and Now
  • Bank Building on Garden of Allah Site Demolished to Make Way for Gehry Project
  • The Last Train Through West Hollywood
  • The Getty Has Curated Ed Ruscha’s Archive of Photos of the Sunset Strip and Hollywood in ’12 Sunsets’
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  • Take a Trip along Sunset Boulevard’s Musical History
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