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WEHO-MID-CITY

7mi
184ft
2.1%
00:00
135ft
-2.5%

At Santa Monica Blvd and Robertson was Studio One Disco and Backlot. Santa Monica and Doheny next door to The Troubadour was the original Los Angeles avant garde clothing store Maxfield Bleu, now known as only Maxfields. Around the corner where Melrose Avenue turns into both Doheny and Santa Monica Blvd below a parking structure the incredible George Sand Bookstore which would stay open till past midnight every night and was the first bookstore proper to carry my queer zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson. East on Melrose Avenue, between Fairfax and Highland, the most popular stores of the punk period of the early 1980s including Retail Slut (where I did the windows and my Afro Sister Fertile La Toyah Jackson created original designs bought by Cher and Michael Jackson), there was Poseur (where Ron Athey worked), Flip of Hollywood, Aardvarks, Cowboys & Poodles (aka Cow Poo), Let it Rock!, Graü, Neo 80, War Babies, Wacko and Soap Plant (where the late great Holly Woodlawn worked and Gorilla Rose), and La Luz de Jesus gallery managed by Robert Lopez aka: El Vez, The Mexican Elvis, LA Eyeworks, Black Salad, Just William (by nutty British aristocrat William Waldron), Parachute, and Industrial Revolution.
Take a detour down Gardner to Beverly Blvd and check out the old Carriage Trade restaurant and bar which was a very classy place to pick up hunky male courtesans. Later it became the West Coast version of Indochine. From Stanley and Beverly, go back up to the Russian Quartier of Santa Monica Blvd to 7702 where now is Bar Lubitsch, named after the film director Ernst Lubitsch, but in the early aughts was The Parlour Club where I did my performance space and speakeasy Bricktops at the Parlour Club, from 2002-2005. Before it was the Parlour Club it was the crystal meth drug dive and den of inequity, The Pub, and before that it was a disorderly house, namely a bordello, in the 1920s that featured both female and male prostitutes and existed outside the purview of the Los Angeles Police Department as this was the unincorporated part of the City at that time.
Continue back up to Melrose east about a block past Vine Street, on the North West corner was La Grandia Room, a small former jazz club that housed the Thursday nite underground dance club Rhythm Lounge, where the Red Hot Chili Peppers made their debut. Further east on Melrose turn right at Larchmont and absorb an oasis of small hamlet in a big town with beautiful Larchmont Village.


West Hollywood, CAPublic (12 views)Created Oct 29, 2021

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  • Turn left onto N Doheny Dr
    0.3 mi
  • Turn left onto Melrose Ave
    0.3 mi
  • Turn right onto N Gardner St
    2.5 mi
  • Turn right onto Beverly Blvd
    3.0 mi
  • Turn right onto N Stanley Ave
    3.2 mi
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