Hi,
E_R, these slides are great! I can feel the spring heating up in them.
On the billboard below the Chateau Marmont in this one, it mentions the Tabletoppers appearing at the Players restaurant! Anyone have information about them?
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slides, all dated 1955
Sunset Blvd. -note 'The Players' nightclub.
When I lived in L.A. The Players was Wolfgang Puck's.
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E_R, I hesitate to say so because you've mentioned having memory issues recently (aren't we all?), but Spago's opened in West Hollywood in 1982 at 1114 Horn Ave. where Horn, Holloway and Sunset Blvd. all meet. (Approximately 8789 Sunset Blvd.)
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It was known as the Kavkaz restaurant at one point and in the 1940's-1950's it was Cafe Gala. It was built as a house. Spago's was open until his lease expired there in March, 2001. It's been pretty much vacant since.
A 2018 film titled Billionaire Boys Club possibly filmed scenes in 2015-16 outside of the place, showing Tower Records and Spago's circa 1983. Since the building has been unused since Spago's closed they may have filmed the interiors in there as well. I don't know for a fact they filmed around there at all, but at least some of it looks like they could have.
I don't think the film had much of a release, if at all, because Kevin Spacey is in it. The film stars Taron Egerton, soon to be Elton John in a film biopic, and Ansel Elgort, soon to be Tony in Spielberg's West Side Story remake. There's even cameo performances by Judd Nelson as Ansel's father and Cary Elwes playing Andy Warhol in a scene set in Spago's.
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Sunset Plaza
This is my favorite area along Sunset. My friends and I would eat at a small Dim Sum restaurant up ahead on the right (south) side of the street.
I've often wondered what the name of that place was..(1980s) It was the last storefront in Sunset Plaza (east end of plaza / south side of the st)
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I'm pretty sure the place you're referring to was called Chin Chin's. It opened in 1983. I should say it IS called Chin Chin's, bcause it is still there!
Sunset Plaza
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Grauman's Chinese, Hollywood Blvd.
AS you can see... Untamed is playing.
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We can narrow down when this photo was taken. Untamed played the Chinese Theatre for three weeks, from Friday, March 11, 1955 - Thursday, March 31, 1955. Along with the feature it played a short titled "This Supersonic Age" directed by Paul Wyand and David Samuelson / A British Movietonene Production in CinemaScope and EastmanColour and the animated short "Pup on a Picnic" starring Tom and Jerry / Directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna / A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon in Technicolor.
Nice to see part of the Hollywood Hotel in the background, it would be demolished in 1956. Also I recognize the light blue "Toff's" sign, the coffee shop that was there on the corner of the Chinese Theatre's parking lot.