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Raymond Chandler's first novel The Big Sleep sets lurid scenes there, and in The Long Goodbye (1953), his private detective Philip Marlowe is residing in 'the Laurel Canyon district'. By the 1960s, the neighborhood had become a local center for counterculture, and many prominent folk and rock musicians moved into the area, making it a nexus for ...
Reached by telephone, he told The Times that his brother had "disappeared" in the 1960s or 1970s and was presumed dead long ago. He said that he knew of no family connection to the Rothschilds ...
Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (LMAFS) is a Formerly Used Defense Site which today is a private residence of actor Jared Leto in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The USAF military installation produced motion pictures and still photographs for the United States Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission ...
The proposed route was along the current routing of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, but the emergence of the Laurel Canyon neighborhood as a movie star enclave doomed the project, as did local opposition. Laurel Canyon itself found counterculture fame in the 1960s as home to many of L.A.'s top rock musicians, such as Frank Zappa. The bohemian spirit ...
The three-bedroom house where the Doors front man and his girlfriend Pamela Courson lived together in the late 1960s is on the market for $1.199 million-- pricey when you consider the 2,300-square ...
Mayall’s 1968 album “Blues from Laurel Canyon” markeda permanent move to the United States and a change in direction. He disbanded the Bluesbreakers and worked with two guitars and drums.
Paulekas at a street festival in Los Angeles. Vitautus Alphonsus "Vito" Paulekas (20 May 1913 – 25 October 1992) was an American artist and bohemian, who was most notable for his leading role in the Southern California "freak scene" of the 1960s, and his influence on musicians including The Byrds, Love and Frank Zappa.
Diltz photographed 1960s folk-rock stars who lived in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon. [2] During that time, Laurel Canyon was a center of American music. [3] Many rising stars were drawn to Laurel Canyon, a laid-back neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills. [4] Diltz recalled: "There was a sense of brotherhood in all of this - in the music scene, in ...