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Title: Popular Sunset Boulevard hotpsot, the Trocadero
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1945
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Originally known as the La Boheme from 1929 to 1933, the Trocadero was opened by Hollywood Reporter William Wilkerson in 1934. The building was remodeled in 1938 by owners Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen. After years of serving as one of Hollywood's best evening destinations, and another change of ownership, the "Troc" closed in 1946.
Exterior view of the famous nightclub Trocadero, located at 8610 Sunset Boulevard in what is now West Hollywood. This view, from where Sunset Plaza Drive (foreground) meets Sunset Boulevard, shows the nightclub after it had undergone extensive remodeling.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00007168
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
West Hollywood-Restaurants-Trocadero; S-006-242 4x5
CARL0000008070
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/82414
Subject: Trocadero (Nightclub : West Hollywood, Calif.)
Nightclubs--California--West Hollywood
Restaurants--California--West Hollywood
Streets--California--West Hollywood
Lost architecture--California--West Hollywood
Sunset Plaza Drive (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sunset Strip (West Hollywood, Calif.)
West Hollywood (Calif.)

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