The Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard, directly across the street from the Hollywood Palladium, opened on December 26, 1938 – a glamorous supper club-theater with a massive stage with a sixty-foot wide double revolving turntable and staircase and swings that could be lowered from the ceiling – and then it became other things. It ended up as "Nickelodeon on Sunset" – Nickelodeon's West Coast live-action television production center – and then they...
more »The Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard, directly across the street from the Hollywood Palladium, opened on December 26, 1938 – a glamorous supper club-theater with a massive stage with a sixty-foot wide double revolving turntable and staircase and swings that could be lowered from the ceiling – and then it became other things. It ended up as "Nickelodeon on Sunset" – Nickelodeon's West Coast live-action television production center – and then they moved out. In 2016 the building won landmark status as a Historic-Cultural Monument and will be protected from demolition and restored under an agreement among owner Essex Property Trust, Hollywood Heritage and the Los Angeles Conservancy – and the exterior painting just began. It's 1938 again. And further west on Sunset there's the Guitar Center, which started out here in 1959 as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use, and then it was amps and guitars, and now they’re a giant national chain – and they've recovered from being bought out by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital in 2007 and nearly dismantled and sold off in pieces. In April 2014, Ares Management bought them and fixed everything – and now the flagship store on Sunset is being rebuilt with a new proper rock and roll mural out front. These are the proper walls. ~ Thursday, October 4, 2018
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