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For many years, the area that is now West Hollywood was an unincorporated area in the midst of the City of Los Angeles that was under the jurisdiction of "the county." It was illegal to gamble in the city but legal in the county, and in the 1920s a lot of nightclubs and casinos went in along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood for this reason.
Movie people were attracted to this less restricted "county" area and a number of architecturally fine apartment houses and apartment hotels were built. Movie fans throughout the world knew that Ciro's, the MocamboThe Mocambo was a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8588 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It was opened on January 3, 1941, and the Macambo became an immediate success. 100,000 had been spent on the decor of the club with a Latin American t, the TrocaderoThis article is about Trocadero restaurants and clubs. For the section of Paris for which they have been named, see: Trocadero. For the band, see: Trocadero (band The Battle of Trocadero in southern Spain, a citadel held by liberal Spanish forces that was, the Garden of AllahAlternate meaning: Garden of Allah (cabaret The Garden of Allah was a famous apartment building in West Hollywood, California, on Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights and Havenhurst, at the east end of the Sunset Strip. Although built in a Moroccan s, the Chateau Marmont and movie starsA movie star is a celebrity who is well known for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures. In the days of early silents the names of the actors and actresses appearing in movies were not publicized or credited. Some of these performers h could be seen on the Sunset Strip.Eventually, the area and its extravagant night spots lost favor with movie people. But the Strip and its restaurants, bars and clubs, continued to be an attraction for locals and out-of-town tourists. In the late 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around, the Strip was transformed again during the hippieHippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American movement. Young people from all over the country flocked to West Hollywood clubs such as the Whisky A Go-GoThe Whisky A Go-Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8901 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It was opened January 11, 1963 at the site of an old bank building that had been remodeled into a short-lived club called the Party, by a former and the Troubadour
In the early 1970s, there was a large influx of Russian Jews from the Fairfax District and homosexuals. Because of the large gay population, West Hollywood became prominently known as a gay village. But it is not solely defined as such, the population includes individuals of all sexual orientations.
In November 1984, voters passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate and the area became the City of West Hollywood.