A rare photo of Davy Jones of the Monkees in front of The Street in 1970. Inspired by the street markets of New York, Davy founded this indoor market that featured small shops by local artisans. Unfortunately, The Street was a short-lived venture. Other incarnations of this building have been infamous nightclubs such as the Factory, Studio One, The Carousel and Luna Park.
A nine-story tall hotel/retail complex is scheduled for construction on this site.
Photo courtesy of Vintage Los Angeles. The Street’s building will be dismantled and most of it will be rebuilt on a north-south axis along Robertson.
Read more of Alison Martino’s Vintage LA http://alisonmartino.com/.
With all do respect to Alison Martino (I love her website), what has happened to Wehoville in the past few months? Wehoville has become a site of local profiles, celebrity b/s and nostalgia articles. Seriously, what’s happened here? Has anybody from the Wehoville staff read Weho Times lately? If you had told me that that our city’s daily news would be throughly covered and updated sometimes three times a day on Weho Times I would have not believed it. But take a look at the past couple weeks of news coverage and hardly any of it was covered by Wehoville-… Read more »
This tired, wafer-thin article which thankfully doesn’t include a picture of the author is here for no reason whatsoever.
I love the nostalgia!
I don’t mind nostalgia, but these “contributions” are a joke. Crap writing, rehashed trivia… and all for the sole purpose of promoting the author.
“Infamous” Studio One? Sorry but Studio One was classy and with wall-to-wall cuties. Moreover, The Backlot Night Club on the La Peer side of the building had great acts. I saw Anita O’Day, Charles Pierce and Wayland Flowers and Madame perform there. And how is the traffic going to be handles if/when that huge hotel/retail complex is built?
What traffic? The council now has plans to close San Vincente Blvd.
I read about that. Stupid IMO