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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Moving on down the block...(to be continued)
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Now to the last building on that block, a place that needs no introduction because it is the only business left from the 60's still in operation on this stretch of the Strip! 57 years! The Whisky-a-Go Go! (Or Whiskee รก-go go if you're sentimental!)
This is a 2008 photo of the Whisky. Photos are usually taken in the other direction. This one shows that the 8909 Sunset Blvd. address of Sneeky Pete's location next door was occupied by Duke's Coffee Shop that had migrated up to Sunset Blvd. after the original location at the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Blvd. was replaced by a Ramada Inn complex.
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The building was a bank from 1929-1955.
It was the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music from 1957-1963.
Then very briefly, it was a restaurant/club at the same location called "The Party".
This 2019 article from
WeHoVille which talks about the city granting the building Historic Status and approving digital bilboards on the roof, says this:
"[The] building was constructed in 1923, one of the first commercial buildings on what would become the Sunset Strip. It originally housed real estate offices and later various banks. In 1963, it opened as a nightclub called The Party, a private club for women, but soon went out of business. Elmer Valentine, a Chicago cop with mob ties, who moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960's, took over the lease and transformed it into the Whisky a Go Go."
So all these guys on the street in the above photo, must be waiting for the women to come out?
The Whisky is most often seen painted red, but it's not always that way. A couple examples.
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Here it's two-toned.
2019
And now here's a 2019 video (4 1/2 minutes) of KISS arriving at the Whisky and taking a stroll out to the cross walk for a photo in front of this row of buildings being spotlighted the last several days.
Sort of a KISS-off to this block of the Sunset Strip.
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