West Hollywood celebrated its 40th year of cityhood with a gala Thursday evening inside the Pacific Design Center.
The free event drew hundreds of attendees and a who’s who of WeHo movers and shakers, including County Assessor Jeffrey Prang and former Mayor Abbe Land. WeHo’s current mayor, John M. Erickson, welcomed the crowd alongside his colleagues on City Council: Vice Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers and Councilmembers Lauren Meister and John Heilman, and Councilmember-elect Danny Hang.
WeHo Drag Laureate Pickle opened the show to a standing-room only audience inside the PDC’s Silver Screen Theater, where WeHo Stories presented an original documentary film about the city’s origin. Those not in the theater mingled on the second floor catwalks, viewing displays about future city projects and enjoying live music.
It started with the first mayor going to prison for embezzlement . I wonder if she was invited to the party? Former mayor Steve Schulte was the porn star mayor. He was a very sweet and smart man! RIP
Steve Schulte is still alive….
“investments in public safety”. The Mayor is either blind or lost in his ego. SMB is mostly a glorified slum of dated facades, homeless people sleeping on sidewalks and nuts screaming at cars and passersby. Every week there are more and more notifications on my “citizen” app of crimes not far from my home on Kings. They seem to want to be a poor persons Amsterdam with weed shops and bars and people sleeping near the Ambassador’s who can be found often looking at their phones and doing nothing while being paid. The city has been in decline with retailers… Read more »
I agree but those issues stems from society today in America. It is worse in southern California because homeless people can survive here due to the weather. If we had weather like the mid West or east cost there would still be homeless issues but much less. Florida doesn’t have an outstanding of control homeless problem because alligators will eat them. I have lived in WeHo off and on since 1981. I actually thought it was better back then. The LGBTQ movement was an organic movement. For instance the Halloween carnival and the gay pride parade survived mostly on donations… Read more »
Enjoyed the new blurb.
No more photos?
Did Erickson get his face tatted in the first photo?
The bright side of the bleak looking CC is that atleast there is no Shlepi Shline.