History The History Of Los Angeles

Sunset Strip (as others have posted) has always been known for the plethora of signage

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he Troubadour played an important role in the careers of Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Hoyt Axton, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and other prominent and successful performers, who played performances there establishing their future fame. On August 25, 1970, Neil Diamond introduced Elton John, who performed his first show in the United States at the Troubadour. In 1974, John Lennon and his friend, Harry Nilsson, were ejected from the club for drunkenly heckling the Smothers Brothers. Randy Newman started out at the club and comics Cheech & Chong were discovered there. It's located in West Hollywood...

 

I posted a photo earlier in this thread about the canals of Venice. Here is a gondola cruising the canals in 1909. Yes, the canals were modeled after the one's in Italy...

 

i believe only 6 still remain, almost all if the canals were filled in.

 

hahahahahaha i didnt even pay attention to that, hahahahaha

 

City of Lights

 

I don't know if this will post. Ultra panoramic shot...

 

If you are going to paint some graffiti, you may as well go all out...

 

Huh?

 

Damn!!!!!!!

 

great stuff! makes we wanna go for a drive. thanks everyone

 

Los Angeles has more than a few interesting homes...

 

Isn't that the former home of a Doctor whos son suspects that he was the killer of the Black Dhalia

 

Hey you missed Tom Waits....he did a great live album there..!!!

 

thats right by union station! thats where it starts.

 

Watt's Towers detail close-up.

 

Here's a Coca-Cola building done up to resemble a passenger ship. I don't know of a connection...

 

Ill see your Wiltern, ad raise you a Mayan and an egyptian!

 

Ed, that ultra panorama shot is awesome!

I fear this is a slippery slope, so I'll only take one step . . . but, talking about Whiskey-a-Go-Go and The Troubador, I just have to mention McCabe's Guitar Shop on Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica.

Got on my radar screen with the 1976 LP "Live At McCabe's" by one of my all-time favorite flat pickers, Norman Blake. The list of legendary performers since they opened in 1969 (or since they started having performers in front of a live audience, anyway) is mind-blowingly long.

The absolute best all-time musicians (a sampling):

Finger-pick pickers: Chet Atkins, Merle Travis
Flat pickers: Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice (the best), David Bromberg, Ricky Skaggs
Jazz guitar: Joe Pass, Bill Frisell, Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessel, Larry Coryell (my personal favorite guitar player)
All-around player extraordinnaire: Jimmy Bryant, Mark O'Connor, David Lindley
Dobro: Tut Taylor, Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge
Blues legend: Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Lowell Fulson, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Country picker extraordinnaire: Bernie Leadon, Vince Gill, Pete Anderson
Jazz Giant: McCoy Tyner, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard
Fiddle: Vasser Clements, Byron Berline

You get the idea . . . Tom Waits, Mike Bloomfield, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks . . . it's like a right of passage for great players, esp. guitar players.

 

The Trocadero on Sunset Blvd.

 

The Vendome.

 

Mocambo on Sunset Blvd.

 

Ciro's was a major hang-out for the Hollywood bunch, well into the sixties...

 

How about some Hollywood types and their rides?

Let's start off with the Little Rascals...

 

Al Jolson and his '28 Benz...

 

Buster Keaton with his '28 Austin Bantam...

 

the comedy store!!!!

 

W.C.Fields