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Sunset Boulevard is one of the world's most famous streets. Although it stretches from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, passing through Hollywood and Beverly Hills on its way, the most notorious area of the street is the section that passes through West Hollywood. This is the area known as the "Sunset Strip," home to L.A.'s hottest and hippest bars and clubs, many of them packed with Hollywood history like the famous Whisky (8901 Sunset) where the Doors started out as the house band. The rock 'n' roll atmosphere starts early and goes on through the night. Shop, eat, starwatch and dance your heart out on the boulevard that spawned (and spurned) a thousand dreams.

SUNSET STRIP

For 60 years the Hollywood nighttime crowd has headed for the 1¾-mi stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights Boulevard on the east and Doheny Drive on the west, known as the Sunset Strip. In the 1930s and '40s, stars like Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Norma Shearer, and Rita …

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