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22-588: La Cienega Boulevard's northern terminus is the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood . It runs as a surface street in a due south direction through Beverly Hills and a section known as "Restaurant Row" for its historic tradition of upscale restaurants. South of Olympic, La Cienega runs through between the Pico-Robertson , South Carthay , and Crestview neighborhoods of West Los Angeles . South of

44-489: A fee to play at clubs, diminished its appeal to groups, other than as an industry showcase. As of the 2010s, the music industry establishment continues to dominate the clubs on Sunset Strip. 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 Sunset Strip was occupied by office buildings, mostly catering to

66-700: A hangout for musicians, including the Stooges and the New York Dolls . Clubs on the Sunset Strip at that time, Rodney Bingenheimer's in particular, were notorious for allowing teenage patrons. "Nobody carried or cared about ID's. Thirteen-year-old girls could walk in dressed like sexy 25-year-olds, and kids could sidle up to the bar and order a cocktail, so it wasn't a big stretch for us to get up and play there", recalled Quiet Riot founder Kelly Garni . The 1979 Donna Summer song " Sunset People ", from

88-604: A late-night comedy sketch show performed at a fictional theater on Sunset Strip. Premiering on January 27, 2006, in Los Angeles at Vanguard Hollywood , the Rock of Ages stage production inspired the 2012 film of the same name . Its story line is centered along Sunset Strip in 1987. The opening credits of the HBO TV series Entourage featured shots of Sunset Strip. Los Angeles-based artist Edward Ruscha created

110-592: Is in Los Angeles County . Sunset Strip The Sunset Strip is the 1.7-mile (2.7 km) stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through the city of West Hollywood, California , United States. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with the city of Los Angeles near Marmont Lane to its western border with Beverly Hills at Phyllis Street. The Sunset Strip is known for its boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs , as well as its array of huge, colorful billboards . Prior to

132-499: Is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called " West Los Angeles ." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive southerly shift in 1825 to roughly its present course. The difference in spelling in Los Angeles between

154-656: Is near Playa Del Rey . University of Southern California (USC) is located on Jefferson Boulevard from Figueroa Street to Vermont Avenue . Its sports center complex, the Galen Center , is located at the southeast corner of Jefferson and Figueroa. Bus service is operated through Jefferson Boulevard between Playa Vista and West L.A. Transit Center by Culver City Transit line 4, between West LA Transit Center and USC by Metro Local line 38, and east of USC by Metro Local line 102. The Metro E Line serves two light rail stations at Jefferson: one at Flower Street near USC and

176-743: The Santa Monica Freeway, the I-10 , it briefly borders Culver City , and passes the La Cienega/Jefferson station of the Metro E Line. Between Obama Boulevard and Manchester Avenue , most of La Cienega Boulevard is a divided, limited access expressway with few traffic signals . In the late 1940s, as part of the proposed Laurel Canyon Freeway , La Cienega was constructed to freeway standards with several grade-separated interchanges. Emergency call boxes like those found along

198-685: The artist's book Every Building on the Sunset Strip in 1966, later 12 Sunsets website for the Getty Research Institute . Jefferson Boulevard Jefferson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles and Culver City, California . Its eastern terminus is at Central Avenue east of Exposition Park . At its entrance to Culver City, it splits with National Boulevard. North of Sawtelle Boulevard , it merges with Sepulveda Boulevard . Jefferson returns before Slauson Avenue and ends at Culver Boulevard ; its western terminus

220-402: The other on La Cienega Boulevard . Los Angeles saw an influx of Creoles of color to the area in the mid-1900s, to the point that by the 1950s a portion of Jefferson Boulevard and Jefferson Park (a neighborhood that ran partially along Jefferson Boulevard) was unofficially dubbed "Little New Orleans ". The population was predominantly Creole and held many Creole-owned businesses such as

242-591: The 1960s. La Cienega in Beverly Hills, north of Wilshire Boulevard , is known as Restaurant Row because it features many upscale restaurants. From Wilshire in Beverly Hills traveling north the best known establishments include Benihana , The Stinking Rose, Darioush, the original Lawry's the Prime Rib , Hakobe, Tokyo Table - Tokyo City Cuisine, Matsuhisa, Fogo de Chão , Gyu-Kaku , Woo Lae Oak, The Bazaar by José Andrés , and Morton's . La Cienega Boulevard

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264-540: The 1984 incorporation of the city of West Hollywood , the Sunset Strip lay in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County . Because of this, the Sunset Strip and all of West Hollywood gained a reputation for being a loosely regulated area, in large part because it was not under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Police Department . Gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but legal in unincorporated Los Angeles County, which fostered

286-514: The Castilian Spanish word ciénaga and the name of the thoroughfare, which is common in other Iberian languages like Extremaduran , originated with the name of the ranch. Metro Local lines 105 runs on La Cienega Boulevard. An elevated light rail station for the Metro E Line is located at Jefferson Boulevard . An underground station for the Metro D Line at Wilshire Boulevard is currently under construction. The entire route

308-824: The Doors , the Byrds , Love , the Seeds , Frank Zappa , and others played at clubs like Gazzarri's , the Whisky a Go Go , the Roxy , Pandora's Box and the London Fog . In July 1965 Go-Go dancers also began performing. The Hyatt West Hollywood (now known as the Andaz West Hollywood) became a popular hotel. Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco , influenced by Britain's glam rock movement, opened in 1972. It became

330-505: The Whisky a Go Go and The Roxy, became home to numerous LA-based heavy metal bands such as Van Halen , Quiet Riot , Mötley Crüe , Ratt and Guns N' Roses . The scene became synonymous with glam metal , with many fans mimicking the hair and clothing worn by the bands. The many heavy metal fans who would congregate outside the clubs along the strip became a defining feature. The adoption of "pay to play" policies, in which bands were charged

352-496: The album Bad Girls , was about the nightlife on Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Strip continued to be a major focus for punk rock and new wave music during the late 1970s. During the latter part of the 1970s and well into the 1980s, the Sunset Strip would become synonymous with the Los Angeles heavy metal movement, commonly referred to as the West Coast Metal Explosion. The clubs on the Sunset Strip such as

374-817: The area's freeways were also installed along that stretch in the early 1970s. The Laurel Canyon Freeway was never completed. This stretch of La Cienega passes through the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area , Baldwin Hills , the Inglewood Oil Field , and Ladera Heights . South of Manchester Avenue , La Cienega becomes a surface street once more, running parallel to the San Diego (405) Freeway through Inglewood . It terminates at El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne along

396-547: The development of rather wilder nightlife in West Hollywood than was found within the city limits. In the 1920s a number of nightclubs and casinos moved in along Sunset Strip, which attracted movie people; alcohol was served in back rooms during Prohibition . In the 1930s and the 1940s, restaurants and nightclubs on Sunset Strip, like Sherry's, Ciro's , the Mocambo and the Trocadero , were patronized by people working in

418-671: The early 1960s, Sunset Strip had lost favor with the majority of movie people, but its restaurants, bars and clubs continued to serve as an attraction for locals and tourists. In the mid-1960s it became a major gathering place for the counterculture and was the scene of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November 1966, involving police and crowds of young club-goers. Those riots inspired the Buffalo Springfield song " For What It's Worth ". Sunset Strip became popular with rock musicians and their fans. Bands such as Led Zeppelin ,

440-406: The entertainment industry, as well as hotels. During the 1990s, the center of the alternative music activity in Los Angeles shifted further east to areas like Echo Park , Silver Lake and Los Feliz . 77 Sunset Strip , a 1958–1964 TV series, was set on Sunset Strip between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a behind-the-scenes television drama of

462-581: The movie industry. Some of its expensive nightclubs and restaurants were said to be owned by gangsters like Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel , earning Sunset Strip a place in Raymond Chandler 's 1949 Philip Marlowe novel, The Little Sister . Also on Sunset Strip are 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

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484-632: The west side of the freeway. A non-contiguous segment also named La Cienega Boulevard runs along the east side of the 405 freeway, roughly between El Segundo Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue in an unincorporated strip of Los Angeles County . The area of La Cienega Boulevard, from Beverly Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard, and its satellite streets is known as the La Cienega Design Quarter. Its shops and galleries house many antiques, furniture, rugs, accessories and art. Art dealer Felix Landau operated his trend-setting gallery there in

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