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9 unusual facts about Sunset Strip


Al Ferrara

After leaving baseball, he spent four years as a greeter at the Martoni Marquis on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles before going into sales for various home-improvement companies, eventually starting his own company, Major League Construction.

Isolated Atoms

During May and June 2011 Isolated Atoms visited Los Angeles where they performed at the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Strip and appeared live on Time Warner's 'Focus In The Mix' Rock TV station with Denise Ames.

Jon Van Caneghem

Van Caneghem was raised on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States by his mother, an artist, and his stepfather, a neurologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Sons of Adam

Previously known as the Fender IV when they began in Baltimore in 1962, the band then moved to Southern California and became a frequent attraction at clubs on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.

Steven Chorney

Chorney landed a position with a small independent agency on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, animating and designing television commercials.

The Leaves

In 1965 The Byrds left their residency at Ciro's on Sunset Strip after making their first hit, and The Leaves (as they were by now known) were chosen to replace them.

The Sunrays

They appeared at Crescendo Interlude on the Sunset Strip with Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the Teen Age Fair at Pacific Ocean Park, the after party for the 1963 Academy Awards, The Bob Eubanks TV Dance Party, and every Friday night as the house dance party band at the San Bernardino, California Civic Auditorium.

The Sweet Ride

The San Francisco rock and roll band Moby Grape contributed to the soundtrack, and appeared, credited, in the film, performing the song "Never Again" in a Sunset Strip nightclub called the Tarantula.


Amy Schugar

Schugar performed on the Los Angeles, California metal scene during the metal days, with her band "Maiden America" that performed regularly at The Troubadour, Gazzarri's and the Whisky a Go Go clubs on the Sunset Strip.

One Shot Sam

The main charter, One Shot Sam, travels around Hollywood and North Hollywood visiting the locations where the birth of Country rock music took place, including the Troubadour (nightclub), The Palomino, Barney's Beanery, and several locations on the Sunset Strip.

Sunset Strip curfew riots

The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots," were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the summer of 1966 and continuing on and off through the early 1970s.

When the Music's Over

"When the Music's Over" was a staple of The Doors' live shows in 1966, when they were the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.


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Denim delinquent

The content of these issues included articles about music groups playing the Sunset Strip, including the Whisky a Go Go.

Dudley Do-Right Emporium

The rotating statue of Bullwinkle holding Rocky was made to mimic the rotating statue of a Las Vegas showgirl on top of a giant billboard for the Stardust Hotel across Sunset Boulevard at the eastern side of the Sunset Strip.

Josh Altman

Altman specializes in the Platinum Triangle (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills) and the Sunset Strip and Hollywood Hills luxury housing market.

Kate Miner

Also recorded that year was a live album, Live From The Sunset Strip, which found Miner performing at the Roxy in West Hollywood, California, backed by Walter Rodriguez, Ron Aniello, Derri Daugherty, Scott Docherty and David Miner.

Montgomery Pittman

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., lead star of 77 Sunset Strip, a detective series which aired from 1958 to 1964, recalls that his friend Pittman at forty-five became ill with "a tumor on the side of his neck that grew rapidly to grapefruit-size. He had it excised, but it left a gaping hole, which he covered with a kerchief".

The Gun Club

The band was originally a rockabilly band called The Cyclones led by Pleasant Gehman on lead vocals, but Gehman departed after only one show which was at Gazzarri's, a club on the Sunset Strip and their opening act was The GoGos.