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Old Posted Oct 23, 2012, 7:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Fab Fifties Fan View Post
This is quite interesting and confusing! So 5955 was Florentine Gardens in the thirties and forties, a union hall in the mid fifties (judging by the cars on the left) and then sometime later became Florentine Gardens once again???
Not sure when it might have become Florentine Gardens again, but I can tell you that in the early 1980s it was one of a very small number of Hollywood venues in which punk rock bands were allowed to play.

I saw quite a few shows there myself, although not this one from 1981:


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