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When The Comedy Store opened on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in April, 1972, it was the first club to feature all stand-up comedy. The 99-seat Original Room was supplemented with the 450-seat Main Room in a 1976 renovation.
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This Hyatt hotel opened in 1963 as Gene Autry’s Hotel Continental. In the late 60s-70s its proximity to Sunset Strip clubs made it a preferred accommodation for rock groups including Led Zeppelin, The Who & the Rolling Stones.
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Hacienda Arms Apartments, now Piazza del Sol on the Sunset Strip, was built in 1927 as a luxury apartment building catering to the entertainment business. In the 1930s, it became the “most famous brothel in California.”
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Converted from a grocery store to a nightclub in the 1940s, the Cotton Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood went by many names before being revitalized as The Viper Room by Johnny Depp and Sal Jenco in 1993.
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