ON SUNSET IT'S A TRIP WHERE THE A.C.'S COLD AND THE GIRLS STILL STRIP: Where exactly on the Sunset Strip is this studio? Well, from the proximity to the clubs and from what appeared to be a somewhat fake shot of the 9000 Sunset Building (one side of which is covered by a gigantic billboard), it appears to have been plopped down square on top of the legendary Rainbow Bar and Grill, which, let me tell you, is not going to please Sebastian Bach. On the bright side, it seems to have flattened the Roxy as well.
This is, of course, a curious place for a 70-year-old deco theater to land, since it is surrounded entirely by 70s and 80s-era plaster boxes. So from where did it come? Well, it appears that the bottom half -- including both parts of the marquee -- was uprooted from a decidedly non-Strip part of Sunset a few miles to the East, where it used to be called the Palladium. Somewhere above Miyagi's, the erstwhile Palladium collided with most of the design cues from the exquisite Pan Pacific Theater, which mercifully burned down in the 1980s before the hideous fake Italianate condos were heaved up across the street from it on the dystopian Park LaBrea campus.
This still begs the question: where exactly are they hiding Studios 1-59 on the Sunset Strip?
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