He’s 14 feet tall, 700 pounds and, some would say, a bit of an icon. A beloved spinning statue of Bullwinkle holding his friend Rocky was first installed outside Jay Ward Productions’ animations studios on the Sunset Strip in 1961, across the street from the Chateau Marmont. Meant to parody a twirling showgirl advertising the […]
These Images of L.A. in 1969 Capture a Mythical Moment in History
No other American city was so utterly remade by the 1960s as Los Angeles. Famously cavalier about torpedoing its past to make way for a fuzzily conceived future, L.A. was the perfect conquest for thousands of rampaging baby boomers wresting the cultural agenda through sheer preemption. During its golden rock and roll era of the […]
To sell a $45M home, this broker just commissioned billboards on Sunset Strip
Jason Oppenheim What does it take to sell a mansion in the Hollywood Hills? In this softening market, one broker is betting on billboards. Jason Oppenheim, founder of the Oppenheim Group, is listing a 20,000-square-foot, fully furnished estate atop the Hollywood Hills for nearly $44 million, The Real Deal has learned. And while the property […]
Sunset Strip’s former Tower Records store could have new tenant soon
Tower Records store, and late Tower Records founder Russ Solomon (Credit: Getty Images) It’s been a bad week for nostalgic music lovers. Just days after plans to demolish the Amoeba Music were greenlit, an opportunity to lease the former home of the iconic Tower Records on the Sunset Strip has hit the market. While the […]