Sunset Strip Real Estate – Los Angeles, California 90069
The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood’s eastern border with Hollywood at Crescent Heights Boulevard, to its western border with Beverly Hills at Doheny Drive. The Strip is probably the best known portion of Sunset, embracing a premier collection of boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry. It is also known for its trademark array of huge, colorful billboards and has developed a notoriety as a hang out for rock stars, movie stars and entertainers.
History
As the Strip lies outside of the Los Angeles city limits and was an unincorporated area under the jurisdiction of the County of Los Angeles, the area fell under the less-vigilant jurisdiction of the Sheriff’s Department rather than the heavy hand of the LAPD. It was illegal to gamble in the city, but legal in the county. This fostered the building of a rather wilder concentration of nightlife than Los Angeles would tolerate, and in the 1920s a number of nightclubs and casinos moved in along the Strip, which attracted movie people to this less-restricted area; alcohol was served in back rooms during Prohibition.
Glamour and glitz defined the Strip in the 1930s and the 1940s, as its renowned restaurants and clubs became a playground for the rich and famous. There were movie legends and power brokers, and everyone who was anyone danced to stardom at such legendary clubs as Ciro’s, the Mocambo and the Trocadero. Some of its expensive nightclubs and restaurants were said to be owned by gangsters like Mickey Cohen. Other spots on the strip associated with Hollywood include the Garden of Allah apartments — Hollywood quarters for transplanted writers like Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and F. Scott Fitzgerald — and Schwab’s Drug Store.
By the early 1960s, the Strip lost favor with the majority of movie people, but its restaurants, bars and clubs continued to serve as an attraction for locals and out-of-town visitors. In the mid-1960s and the 1970s it became a major gathering-place for the counterculture — and the scene of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in the summer of 1966, involving police and crowds of hippies, serving as the inspiration for the Buffalo Springfield song “For What It’s Worth”.
Go-Go dancers performed at such spots as the famous Whisky a Go Go. Bands like The Doors, The Byrds, Love, The Seeds, Frank Zappa, and many others played at clubs like the aforetomentioned Whisky a Go Go, Roxy, Pandora’s Box and the London Fog.
As the Strip became a haven for musical artists in the 1960s and 1970s, the Hyatt West Hollywood, as it is known today, became a hotel of legend. Many musicians lived or stayed at the hotel for the easy access to the live music venues on Sunset Boulevard. This is how the hotel became known by names such as the “Riot Hyatt” and the “Riot House”, thus serving as a redolent location for the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous.
In the early 1970s a popular hangout for glam rock musicians and groupies was Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. The Strip continued to be a major focus for punk rock and New Wave during the late 1970s, and it became the center of the colorful glam metal scene throughout the 1980s. The 1979 Donna Summer song “Sunset People” from the album Bad Girls, was about the nightlife on Sunset Boulevard. With the increase in rents in the area during the 1980s, however, and the decline of the glam metal scene in the early 1990s, the Sunset Strip ceased to be a major area for up and coming rock bands without industry sponsorship. The adoption of “pay to play” tactics, in which bands were charged a fee to play at clubs like the Roxy, the Whisky and Gazzari’s (now the The Key Club) also diminished the appeal to rock bands other than as an industry showcase. The music industry dominates clubs on the Strip such as those mentioned above, and only major acts perform at the House of Blues. Thus, during the 1990s, the center of more alternative music activity in Los Angeles shifted further east to areas like Silverlake, Los Feliz and Echo Park. The “Riot Hyatt”, still continues to be a favorite with bands today, such as Justin Timberlake, Breaking Point, and Timbaland, for its continual easy access to live music venues, including The Whisky, Roxy, and House of Blues
In November 1984, voters in West Hollywood passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate and the area became an independent city. Increasingly, the western end of the Strip is occupied by office buildings, mostly catering to the entertainment industry, and expensive hotels. This area seems to have become an adjunct of Beverly Hills only with more nightlife activity, much of it upscale.
In the evening, the Strip is a vibrant slash of neon, a virtual traffic jam of young cruisers on weekends and a mecca for people-watchers and celebrity wannabes.
The Sunset Strip is also home to various creative companies such as Eleventh Hour. Creative people from all over the city congregate here for the unique Hollywood atmosphere for both networking, as well.
Many celebrities can still be seen on the Strip, especially on its western end, and quite a few live in the area, particularly the nearby Hollywood Hills and Laurel Canyon.
Today the Strip contains some of the most exclusive condominium complexes on the West Coast. However the most coveted residences are the celebrity-studded hills above the Sunset Strip. Accessible by only a handful of streets and aggressively patrolled by security, this ultra-exclusive neighborhood of multi-million homes above the Sunset Strip provide the ultimate in seclusion, luxury, and staggering views of the entire L.A. basin. The highest concentration of celebrities living in Los Angeles are in this part of the Hollywood Hills, located just above Sunset Boulevard, from Kings Road, to Sunset Plaza Drive, to Doheny Drive. Homes generally range from $3-22 million.
Some celebrities living in the Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip include Cameron Diaz, Paris Hilton, Kylie Minogue, Leo DiCaprio, Megan Mullaly, Keanu Reeves, Byron Allen, Ryan Phillipe, Buck Henry, Dido, Jose Eber and Nicky Hilton.
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$13,450,000 : Flicker Way, Los Angeles5 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$12,450,000 : 1734 N DOHENY DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 6.0 baths
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$10,750,000 : 2727 CARDWELL PL, Los Angeles8 beds, 9.5 baths
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$8,995,000 : 1755 Viewmont Dr, Los Angeles6 beds, 12 full baths
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$8,250,000 : 9212 NIGHTINGALE DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.0 baths
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$7,995,000 : MLS # 11555515 in Los Angeles5 beds, 6.0 baths
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$7,950,000 : 1305 COLLINGWOOD PL, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.5 baths
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$7,595,000 : 1260 ST IVES PL, Los Angeles5 beds, 8.0 baths
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$7,500,000 : 9255 DOHENY RD, West Hollywood3 beds, 3.0 baths
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$7,250,000 : 1901 SUNSET PLAZA DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 6.0 baths
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$6,995,000 : 1477 STEBBINS TER, Los Angeles3 beds, 4.0 baths
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$6,995,000 : 8690 FRANKLIN AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.0 baths
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$6,850,000 : 9342 SIERRA MAR DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 7.0 baths
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$6,700,000 : 1439 DEVLIN DR, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.0 baths
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$5,995,000 : 7571 MULHOLLAND DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 8.5 baths
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$5,995,000 : 9199 THRASHER AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$5,995,000 : MLS # 11559911 in Los Angeles6 beds, 6.0 baths
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$5,995,000 : 9277 THRUSH WAY, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.5 baths
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$5,900,000 : 8570 COLE CREST DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 7.5 baths
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$5,795,000 : 7104 MACAPA DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 6.0 baths
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$5,750,000 : 8935 WONDERLAND AVE, Los Angeles8 beds, 12.0 baths
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$5,749,000 : 1700 QUEENS COURT, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.0 baths
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$5,495,000 : 7661 CURSON TER, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.0 baths
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$5,495,000 : 1451 BLUE JAY WAY, Los Angeles3 beds, 3 full baths
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$4,990,000 : 2649 LA CUESTA DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.5 baths
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$4,750,000 : 8815 PINTO PL, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.5 baths
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$4,650,000 : 9126 CORDELL DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$4,650,000 : 8932 ST IVES DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 8.0 baths
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$4,595,000 : 9140 ST IVES DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 6.0 baths
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$4,595,000 : 8050 SELMA AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$4,450,000 : 1448 QUEENS WAY, Los Angeles3 beds, 5.0 baths
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$4,395,000 : 1352 MILLER DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$4,299,000 : 9212 CORDELL DR, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.5 baths
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$4,250,000 : 1383 MILLER PL, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$4,250,000 : 8469 HILLSIDE AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.0 baths
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$4,195,000 : 9229 ROBIN DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$3,995,000 : MLS # 11523607 in Los Angeles4 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths
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$3,895,000 : 9237 FLICKER WAY, Los Angeles3 beds, 4.5 baths
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$3,850,000 : 8850 EVANVIEW DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$3,750,000 : 1432 ORIOLE DR, Los Angeles1 bed, 1.75 baths
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$3,599,000 : 2260 HERCULES DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.5 baths
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$3,495,000 : 1479 RISING GLEN RD, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.5 baths
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$3,495,000 : 1123 SUNSET HILLS RD, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.0 baths
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$3,495,000 : 1485 N DOHENY DR, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.5 baths
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$3,495,000 : 9255 DOHENY RD, West Hollywood1 bed, 2.5 baths
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$3,395,000 : 1440 N KINGS RD, West Hollywood4 beds, 4.0 baths
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$3,395,000 : 8017 FAREHOLM DR, Los Angeles3 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$3,395,000 : 1693 MARMONT AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$3,393,000 : 1145 SUNSET VALE AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.5 baths
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$3,325,000 : 8515 HEDGES WAY, Los Angeles2 beds, 3.5 baths
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