Ciro’s Nightclub (now The Comedy Store) in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip.
Circa 1940, the year it opened.
Top to bottom: (1 & 2) exterior shots, (3) bar, (4 & 5) interior shots, (6) cigarette girl.
A clean, well-lighted place: the welcoming neon glow of Simon’s Drive-In Cafe at night, Wilshire and Fairfax, 1939.
Early action in the city league, as the Magyars withstand a rush from Pasadena A.C.C. Photo dated: December 9, 1931. From the Herald-Examiner Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Once there was a beautiful princess named MOCA. She had a great collection but she wasn’t very good at managing her money. Soon, she was flat broke.
Across town there was a guy named LACMA:
He was a good guy, and a hard worker, but his collections…
The intrepid reporters of the Los Angeles Herald-Express radio-flash car, combing the city for breaking news, 1949.













