1934: Billy Wilkerson, Strip Impresario

William R. Wilkerson wore many hats. He was publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, of course, which, along with Variety, has […]

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”, […]

The transcontinental railroads reached Los Angeles in the 1880s, transforming it seemingly overnight from a dusty, brawling pueblo at the […]

This is a section of an aerial photo of West Hollywood taken in the early 1930s that has been slightly […]

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 […]

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

Crescent Heights In 1909 William Hay, a wealthy 45-year-old real-estate entrepreneur, went on a honeymoon cruise around the world with […]

“There has just been placed on the market a tract of 140 acres of land lying in the foothills, west […]

The mother of all celebrity brawls occurred on the balcony of bandleader Tommy Dorsey’s apartment at 1220 Sunset Plaza Drive* […]