Sunset Strip in 1983 starting at Holloway heading west past Tower Records. I could totally be inside, but don’t see my mom’s car two toned Chevy Caprice. Although I DO see painted adds for Duran Duran’s RIO and Lionel Ritchie debut solo album. Thriller is on the lower half of the Marquee sign. As we keep driving you’ll also notice a poster for The Shining on the side of the @thewhiskyagogo. Nice to see Gazarri’s and all that signage for KMET and Gil Turners. Just wish it kept rolling past Hamburger Hamlet.
And in my fantasy mind, Prince is in that Lincoln Continental.
This raw footage was taken by our dear friend, Phil Savenick who documented everything back then.
I grew up not far from the strip and today I still live in the same neighborhood. It’s changing drastically around here, but it’s still home.
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The sunset strip is no longer the sunset strip. It’s billboard alley. Reflecting me very common face of the people running the city.
There in a nutshell. The Strip in Las Vegas at least speaks for itself. Sunset in Who —for whom does it speak?
I was here in 1983 and you could not find a more amazing city. You’d walk Sunset from Tower Records to Gazzarri’s and the sidewalks would be packed with young people who all looked like they just stepped out of a Poison video. They’d be handing out flyers for their bands’ shows, and there would be vibrant flyers littering the ground two feet deep as you strolled by. Everyone had a beer in hand and was having nothin’ but a good time. No fights, no fussin’, no cussin’. It was like a glorious heavy metal Mardi Gras. Women like Barbara… Read more »
have been in Weho since the later 70’s and then again a few years later until now. I suggest a nickname for the CC would be The Little Rascals…every few w months they are “having a show”