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Old Posted Aug 4, 2014, 10:36 PM
Martin Pal Martin Pal is offline
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Originally Posted by Oviatt Building Fan View Post
A small Spanish colonial-style house, probably from the later 1920s, used to be on a triangular patch of land in the middle of where Sunset curves down to Crescent Heights. In the early '30s, it was a fortune-teller/astrologer's home and office. By the '40s, the gay-friendly "Casanova Club" had moved into it. Somewhere in the '50s, it became a Beatnik coffeehouse named "Pandora", which evolved into a live music venue called "Pandora's Box." What then happened to that little house in 1966 made history.
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I found a photo of the Casanova Club. It’s listed as 1936 and the address of 8383 would be the north side of Sunset Blvd., so I’m wondering when OB says the Casanova Club “moved into” the triangle space at Crescent Heights if he’s referring to the club relocating?


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