Pandora's Box

[Andrew G. Doe]

Circa 1966 - anyone else ever seen any images of it ?

[Christian]

another picture:



http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2009/02/sunset-strip.html?showComment=1235713440000

[adamghost]

Wow...trippy to see it all boarded up like that.  Where was Pandora's Box exactly?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Wow...trippy to see it all boarded up like that.  Where was Pandora's Box exactly?

I guess the best description would be, a non-alcohol serving club for kids: the usual description is 'a coffee house'. After all, when Marilyn met Brian there, she was just fourteen and a half(ish).

[urbanite]

Across the street from the Cocanut Teaser on Sunset Boulevard at the interesection with Crescent Heights.

[Jason]

Pandora's Box was also referenced in the song Plastic People, from Zappa and the MOI's Absolutely Free album. Apparently, in Pandora's Box there were a vast quantity of Plastic People.

[adamghost]

Across the street from the Cocanut Teaser on Sunset Boulevard at the interesection with Crescent Heights.

Where the strip mall is now, then?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Wow...trippy to see it all boarded up like that.  Where was Pandora's Box exactly?

I guess the best description would be, a non-alcohol serving club for kids: the usual description is 'a coffee house'. After all, when Marilyn met Brian there, she was just fourteen and a half(ish).

Well, duh - I read that as "what was..." 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Across the street from the Cocanut Teaser on Sunset Boulevard at the interesection with Crescent Heights.

Where the strip mall is now, then?

According to Crosby's autobiography*, it was on an island at the intersection.

(* a book that made my hair stand on end as I read it - I do not understand why he's still alive)

[adamghost]

I'm trying to figure out why it looks familiar, since the building is long since demolished (right?) and the intersection is different.

[adamghost]

Ah!  Now I know why:

http://www.justabovesunset.com/2006/id186.html

There's a diagram with aerial photo...the diamond is still there.  That's why it looked familiar (I know that seems strange but finding old roads and noting those kinds of landmarks is a hobby of mine).  Fascinating.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I'm trying to figure out why it looks familiar, since the building is long since demolished (right?) and the intersection is different.

Long gone - the '66 Strip riots (November 12th), in part, protesting the 10pm curfew imposed on such establishments. It was demolished August 3rd 1967.

[adamghost]

Was interesting reading what went down with the curfews.  Something almost identical (though less publicized) happened in March 1990, effectively killing the "hair metal" scene in L.A.

[TdHabib]

Across the street from the Cocanut Teaser on Sunset Boulevard at the interesection with Crescent Heights.

Where the strip mall is now, then?

According to Crosby's autobiography*, it was on an island at the intersection.

(* a book that made my hair stand on end as I read it - I do not understand why he's still alive)

Or how he still sounds good vocally!

[Paulos]

Wow...trippy to see it all boarded up like that.  Where was Pandora's Box exactly?

I guess the best description would be, a non-alcohol serving club for kids: the usual description is 'a coffee house'. After all, when Marilyn met Brian there, she was just fourteen and a half(ish).

Well, duh - I read that as "what was..." 

Don't worry Andrew, you inadvertently answered the question I was going to ask!