Los Angeles Sunset Strip July 1990

See Tower records The Roxy The Whisky A Go-Go The Playboy club and more

[@toddbob55]

love seeing the Classic American cars.

[@vistalite-ph4zw]

I was 18 just graduated high school. I was down here every Friday/Saturday night partying at those clubs. Back then it was all ages I've seen tons of heavy metal bands at some of those clubs. I remember this vividly just like yesterday

[@4senseless]

Tell us, we want details

[@lemmykilmister9979]

lucky ass!!!!

[@AndrewScott1762]

A: You partied at these clubs B: You remember it vividly Pick one.

[@gothgirlgenx9234]

Me too! Message me… I probably know you.

[@gothgirlgenx9234]

@@AndrewScott1762 depends on the party favors 😉 I remember a lot, not all, but I’m still friends with a lot of these people. My cousin ran the office at the Whisky…

[@MrCooper83]

Wow those years. I was born in 83 and I was just a kid in the 90s but we are a lucky generation. Probably the last generation who grew up without social media. The best thing is we are still here!

[@ChipJones-r7k]

That's the truth man

[@themadrapper101]

Yup the kids born in the 90's half of them done by 40

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

If you were born in ‘83 you’re STILL a kid! I am 70 year old aging hippie with no apologies to your generation or those who came after. LA has always been a microcosm of the world, the very worst is here…along the very best. I absolutely love LA and all of its magic, its energy, that magnificent sun and the glorious beaches. Charlie Chaplin filmed near here while F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to turn his life around down near Sunset…and then had his heart attack, thinking himself a failure. He had no idea how wrong he was! Mostly, LA still attracts the dreamers and the very desperate. To my left lives 3 tv stars from the 70’s and across the street is Matt Damon who is a much better human being than an “actor”. I remind him to his face “You’re no actor, you’re a MOVIE STAR! Big deal! He has no enemies that I can see and occasionally, Jimmy Kimmel will drop by in a 1955 candy red Chevy Bell Air to pick him up while I walk my dog. I will yell at them both “I wanna a medium Latte, Oat Milk…extra hot…NO WHIPPED CREAM…be quick about it”! Kimmel yells back “I’ll pick you up a box of Depends too!” “Kimmel, try to be FUNNY tonight…for a change!”

[@LeLeebell55]

Yes...and No Phones all over.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

I miss Tower Records. They brought the name back on the building which is cool, but really, it's just a memory of some great times.

[@gemini7ca]

This was such a cool time. My band played the Troubadour a couple of times in 1990, before the music changed, LA pop-metal still the dominant sound, with plenty of room for other genres. Much fun to be had.

[@angusorvid8840]

I played The Roxy and other clubs with a number of bands. I was an in-demand lead guitarist. Fun times.

[@highlymedicated2438]

​@@angusorvid8840why did you retire?

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

Saw Harry Perry Band there. Weird and wonderful times but kind of went up in smoke. Seems like a dream now. Maybe it was.

[@klienmurollo8395]

What a sweet dog in the video. Love the interaction with the dog owner and the videographer, who obviously knew each other. Something very sweet about it

[@WorldReserveCurrency]

I was 17 - 18 during those days and we would go to that Tower Records every other night checking out CDs. I'd see Chris Rock, Dion Warwick, and other celebs.... I miss those days.

[@NealWalter]

wow, this is cool, I worked at Tower this summer and lived across the street, I've never seen it like it was until this video. That was a fun time to live in LA!!

[@impumagirl]

I remember you and that black guy with the glasses he works at Amoeba now he's been here for freaking years now.

[@rodneypatrick2148]

i know it is kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good website to watch newly released series online?

[@kareemkohen4586]

@Rodney Patrick i dunno try flixportal. just google after it:) -kareem

[@rodneypatrick2148]

@Kareem Kohen Thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) Appreciate it!!

[@kareemkohen4586]

@Rodney Patrick you are welcome :D

[@Pun2404]

Damn, I miss how the 90s looked. Looks like memories.

[@Endo-uu8mo]

90s😅1990 deftl had that late 80s vibe

[@TaliaIGhul]

I miss Tower Records on the strip.... :(

[@ryant3600]

i miss the entire area of what it once was..

[@evetsnitram8866]

There was a Tower Video across the street.

[@musicman1977]

It’s still there actually, not open but still standing as a monumental display. I heard it was The Record Store to go in those days. Must’ve been awesome in the 80’s at Sunset Blvd.

[@sockjean2967]

It still there, I went there for a pop up store/meet n greet on Valentine’s Day. I read somewhere that they mainly use it for events like that

[@Brooklyn_Powers]

MusicMan197 ! I used to get all of my music there. My brother and I were there for the DLR Skyscraper release, where he repelled down the mountain they had built on the top of Tower Records. Tower Records, in Hollywood, was an awesome experience for music lovers.

[@infamouswickedjokestar]

The same year Point Break was filming at that time. What an amazing decade to live in, especially because of the films, the artists, the music, the cars, etc.

[@chocolatechipslime]

I feel like LA had more of an identity in the 90’s, more character and localness, I feel now it’s more cookie cutter just like most every other big American city. Even the smaller cities and towns are somewhat loosing that identity and becoming alike. You’re gonna see the same stores no matter where you are at all built around each other like Walmart, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Chili’s, Hobby Lobby, dollar general, Panera bread, Panda Express, target, Kay jewelers, Taco Bell, Starbucks, and the list goes on

[@evalangan3882]

That my friend is capitalism

[@gothgirlgenx9234]

It’s a split. I was there in 88-2016, a lot of stuff changed after Grunge, but some clubs brought in newer & edgier music.

[@Silvercontained]

​@@evalangan3882Crony capitalism not true capitalism.

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

Yea they ruined it. I always thought it would stay the same and I could always fall back on it. Oops. They even tore down The House of Blues. WTF

[@wendileona]

My parents had moved to dreadful East LA from the Silverlake area, bad family advice, it was so depressing to me, so stagnant, so low standard complacent that I DESPERATELY would take weekend trips on the bus all the way to Tower Records and West Hollywood again, in a desperate attempt to find relief from the conformity i suddenly found myself in. It was just a great time, it was like a window to everyone exciting, the last years before the area hit a douche factor. Wonderful video, bright, subtly energetic, people just having a nice time, no real pretense, thank you for sharing with us .::Gary

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

It was charged and exciting. Always something cool yet weird happening. I know what you mean. I really miss that.

[@baretta-m7i]

I always thought that things would stay the same.

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

I did too...

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

Yea I did too. Oops.

[@valerieproctor7366]

My sisters and I had just started a children musical group where went performed all around Los Angeles also San Fransisco . I was 28 and loving life. Mom was still around living her life. And life was great. Awww, missed those days so much.

[@joeyglasses7626]

#RIP #towerrecords 📿🙏🏽🕊😔

[@1MNUTZ]

you really got hooked on that fade out function on your camcorder didn't ya

[@JimmyRussle]

yeah that annoyed the shit out of me lol....like dude just cut that stuff out....its easy to do with any video editing software. Good footage though!

[@AMOKIAN]

I remember those times…I played live up and down the Strip in the mid 90s… I lived by Tower Records a couple of times over the decades too.

[@imonit1177]

30 years seems like a long time. But when it's over it's like damn that was fast.

[@NealWalter]

So true

[@snakefinger]

Nuthin says 80’s like that fuckkking Porsche slant nose ! I couldn’t get enough back then or still to this day ! 💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕

[@gothgirlgenx9234]

Yep! Stars From Mars!!! I was there!!! 🤣🤣 Looks like Dom out front too!! 🤣🤣 ♥️ So blessed to still have a TON of these amazing people in my life!!!

[@peacemusic6512]

The Stars From Mars Singer Alice was just a super!! He was like a mix between Mick Jagger & Prince,, quite a showman!! I was super surprised seeing there name on the venue. I'm also super super appreciative to part of the scene rocking the clubs and hanging out.. (>‿◠)✌

[@ClassicCarCustodians]

Good old 90s. Traffic was the same as today though. I miss the weekend night crusings though. Thousands of people. Those were the times. Late 90s for me.

[@bardofoc]

KNAC! Would have played the best music in LA if it wasn't so staticy with it's low radio frequency

[@Archer335]

I used to buy records at that Tower store in the eighties and nineties. To buy classical music, you would have to go across the street to the classical annex - same in Sherman Oaks. It’s so sad that Tower is gone, but the times, they do change. I remember walking into the Tower store on Westwood Boulevard in 1988, and they had nothing but CDs in there. It blew me away. That’s when the big change hit. So I started buying CDs. I used to go to the Roxy every now and then. I saw Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, and the Dixie Dregs there back in the eighties and stole a Roxy ashtray, which I still have. Good times! It’s great that this gentleman had the foresight to make this little film way back then. Thank you for posting, sir.

[@BadRonald1]

Wow 27 years ago, I remember the strip well in those days. Was living in North Hollywood and playing the clubs. Used to work at Jacopos Pizza on Sunset & Cresent Hts right around this time. Thanks for posting

[@Corvetteguy816]

I was 25 and Living in North Hollywood

[@suzannelawson9215]

Was in that Tower Record store on Sunset Blvd. many, many times. Wow! What a great store and atmosphere. Long gone now 😥

[@pete3790249]

This when u could go to LA and enjoy yourself, it’s sad how LA looks now

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

Yes. It's over.

[@David_R922]

I've lived in LA for 9 years. Aside from some new businesses, the Sunset Strip doesn't look that different. Whiskey a Go Go looks similar, The Roxy now has a black exterior, Tower Records is long gone but the sign has returned, one of those European car rental places is now a Hustler store, Budget Rent-a-car is now The Coffee Bean.

[@BKrystall]

I was just 11 years old back in 1990. I miss those memories. LA has really changed since then.

[@valerieproctor7366]

Two if my. Beautiful sisters are no longer here, so part of me feels sad but also feels amazing reminising, We had a great life here in Los Angeles, living in West LA, near Lacienga and and Pico.

[@calvinbealer7264]

Now That the L.A I want to Remember.

[@nellienell924]

I’m a 82 baby and I miss this Cali of the 90s

[@davidfreesefan23]

I'm thinking about going to L.A. in July 2023 to celebrate my 30th birthday.

[@RandyR]

I watch this too bring back the good, fun memories. I have a bad feeling that Covid is going to have a bad impact on The Strip. Thank God for the memories!

[@gunnervictorika9859]

KNAC 105.5 The best radio station ever! The Best!! ❤

[@AndrewScott1762]

Thank you for the time machine 😎

[@MrAntiSellOut]

RIP Tower Records/Video

[@kamepo]

Oh, I remember well this Tower Records on Sunset. Tower Records and The Warehouse were the leading record stores at the time.

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

Tower Records was an Icon of the Boulevard. I only went into that one once out of curiosity but I felt like I was in a Fish Bowl so I didn't stay for long. My memories mainly consist of driving past it. I literally lived and grew up in Hollywood 80s, 90s and early 2000s.. Live in Mexico now that the rest of the world is shut down..

[@Endo-uu8mo]

KNAC ❤

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

I was there that year. A 365 day party. Man, if I could go back...

[@chrisbauman2562]

This is california in 1990 and it even looks normal and happy compared to today. What happened,when did life turn to shit?

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

I don't know but I know what you mean. Anyone who still believes in evolution must have head up ass. We are devolving. Change would be alright if it were for the better but I'm not seeing it...

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

It happened slowly. Like a frog in boiling water...

[@CarlosRiveraDallasTexas853]

I miss the 80s and 90s everything was just so cool.

[@lxztbxy]

tower records. i was a kid when i bought my first double CD best of the doors.

[@yoshluv7]

Wow, I remember Tower Records, me and moms used to go to that Tower records sometime!!!!

[@simond.flores8213]

God those were the days..see stars from Mars on the marquee ♡

[@RandyR]

One of my favorite hangouts before the quake threw me 400 miles east in Jan 94. The last time so far was on Thanksgiving 2000 an I also think that it is horrible that Tower Records is not there any longer. Should have made it a museum. Thanks for the groovy memories

[@beakt]

You got thrown 400 miles? Wow! I don't remember the earthquake being that powerful!

[@sandybanks2865]

The night of my senior prom my friends and our dates parked at Tower Records and walked to sneaky Pete’s we had Shirley temples then went up in the hills to Yamashiros for our prom it was a beautiful evening !

[@LuciferTheDogKiller]

I remember that mural at the very end of the video ! I completely forgot about it after all this time but once I saw it I immediately remembered it.

[@charlespatrick8650]

I rented a car from that Budget in 1992!

[@csfan65]

Looks like it was still a cool place live then, unlike now. Thanks for showing all of the great cars...Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, RR, etc. I would have been in heaven!

[@lavertu5711]

Look like a dream .

[@DKSimulationGaming]

My old band was playing that night ,Stars from Mars at the whiskey,lol

[@josemezatorrez]

My first job at 15 years old I sold Maps to the Stars on Subset Blvd back in ‘86. Ricky Schroeder sprayed water on one of the co workers. So many great memories of LA.

[@normacorella2250]

I sure do miss Tower Records... I used buy my music there... It's not the same as walking into a Music Store and listening to it before buying...

[@darthvader4027]

Select motor cars still exists but its called specialty car collection. Crazy how much nicer it looks now.

[@gabrielbennett5162]

That's the LA I remember! Been about that long since I've been there.

[@caporetto90]

che belli questi filmati storici...

[@TheWildChildBrandiComedyHour]

Haha. I was 1 when this was filmed, so weird because everything looks the same except of course, the cars. And the fashion

[@NealWalter]

at 1:25 it says "Love" and "Beau Brummels" on the right side of The Whisky, left over from filming The Doors movie. I worked as an extra and they recreated the whole block like it was in the late 60s, even repainting The Whisky to red/black like it was back then, pretty amazing to see in person. Even the street flyers were accurate for the time. The paid all the business for their lost business while it was shut down. I remember passing Meg Ryan, just sitting on a chair on the sidewalk across from Tower. I guess it's a closest you could come to traveling back in time. The attention to detail was amazing, even the small Whisky menus on each table were accurate.

[@NBC.SATURDAY.NIGHT.LIVE.]

Ur so cool 😀 cool life ! Love that movie

[@BradThePitts]

0:30 Sunset & Hilldale: Still a specialty motorcar outlet, but on the other corner that was "European" specialty cars is now HUSTLER HOLLYWOOD. Check Google Streets!

[@belia1313]

I'm moving out to LA in January so watching videos to get an idea of the area Thanks :-)

[@1980sbrawl]

belia1313 its overcrowded here and traffic is bad. nothing special living in LA

[@belia1313]

Yeah I know

[@marticus1642]

belia1313 uhhh I wouldn't be watching videos of L.a in 1990 that was 27 yrs ago L.a changed

[@1980sbrawl]

Keith Jordan L word. LA was at its best back in the days. Now its horrible and living is expensive.

[@marticus1642]

1980sbrawl Yeah its almost sad I grew up in La in the 90s and late 80s I miss the old vibe L.a had before it become a shotty liberal vegan hipster shit town

[@karenbrown2135]

I miss Tower Records.

[@myothercarisadelorean8957]

Tower records was awesome!!!

[@tylerkeller8869]

It's crazy actually seeing these places. You think of the Sunset Strip as a place of glam and glitz and multi-million dollar record deals. But in reality, the strip is just another piece of real estate like any other. Restaurants and shops and car dealerships like you might see in any other town.

[@marilyntavares3982]

When the glam metal rules the world

[@evidence820]

Does anyone remember in the 90s there was a guy that stood in his underwear and on his leg he had a ladies only written on it

[@colt45peacemaker]

Hollywood used to be a cheap place to live east side nere Western when I was there 1995-2004.

[@Jplent1]

Western. Good place not to live.

[@colt45peacemaker]

@@Jplent1 yep, very bad, poor area. The East Hollywood

[@ClaudineiRomon]

Great video. Congrats

[@MrElliott1972]

Stars From Mars at The Whisky 1990💋

[@tay-tayrazors8022]

I would like to know where Are those people at today in the Year 2019?

[@classicsoutherncalifornia6753]

Now living in the high desert. I do feel very fortunate having been there in the 80, and 90,s

[@colt45peacemaker]

@@classicsoutherncalifornia6753 everyone goes to live in the Antelope Valley at some time in their life or Rosamond, Ridgecrest, Victorville. Lol

[@mida8261]

Probably left the state because California got ridiculously expensive.

[@hajikilla91]

I Miss KNAC!!! The Worst Day in LA Radio History was 2-15-95 when KNAC played Fade To Black ( Metallica ) and Suddenly Mexican Accordion Music came on..🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️😩😭 Terrible!!!

[@seand67]

Love this

[@Keepler22b]

1980/90 : "say hi to the camera, youre on teevee" .. "hiii" 2021: "say hi to the camera, youre on teevee" FACEPUNCHED

[@nlpnt]

Glitch in the matrix at 3:19 with the 2 ice-blue K cars. Govt employees or vacationers in rentals, traveling in convoy? (IIRC Thrifty was the main Mopar fleet in those days, Hertz and Budget had Fords, Avis and Enterprise GM).

[@lorddeathspit1124]

Sucks I never made it out to California before changed....

[@sheppytim]

Love the Sonic Youth poster.

[@metalmopars]

It was cool living there when Gazzarri's was around. I wonder what ever happened to that guitar player from WW3 that played his guitar upside down when i seen them play at the Whiskey.

[@streetfred8430]

KNAC bumper stickers were on every other car

[@feoyjodido1372]

30 years is a life...

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

LA has always been a microcosm of the world, the very worst is here…along the very best. I absolutely love LA and all of its magic, its energy, that magnificent sun and the glorious beaches. Charlie Chaplin filmed near here while F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to turn his life around down near Sunset…and then had his heart attack, thinking himself a failure. He had no idea how wrong he was! Mostly, LA still attracts the dreamers and the very desperate. To my left lives 3 tv stars from the 70’s and across the street is Matt Damon who is a much better human being than an “actor”. I remind him to his face “You’re no actor, you’re a MOVIE STAR! Big deal! He has no enemies that I can see and occasionally, Jimmy Kimmel will drop by in a 1955 candy red Chevy Bell Air to pick him up while I walk my dog. I will yell at them both “I wanna a medium Latte, Oat Milk…extra hot…NO WHIPPED CREAM…be quick about it”! Kimmel yells back “I’ll pick you up a box of Depends too!” “Kimmel, try to be FUNNY tonight…for a change!”

[@derhampaul2182]

Lots of broken dreams shattered there

[@monsieursugarcat]

Stars From Mars cool band!

[@gothgirlgenx9234]

If this was a Friday or Saturday… I was there that night!!!

[@johnsteelman1410]

Hello , where is the Classic Cat located on Sunset Strip ? I was there before years ago....but can't seem to find the Club on KZbin from John in North Carolina.

[@classicsoutherncalifornia6753]

That is a very unique building. In the 1960's it was the Jerry Lewis restaurant. In the 1970,s and early 80's it was the classic cat. in the 1990,s it was Tower Video.

[@Carldancehard]

I need a video game from the 90s. With new generation graphics and realistic physics, Once that happens, that company will get rich.

[@RandyR]

Has the clubs survived the pandemic?

[@MichaelScootpowerMilstead]

played many times here in Black Cherry Dirty Blonde many others

[@RDYC]

Did they ever find out who was honking?

[@kinoandres]

Hello, I would like to know if Licensing this footage is possible. Thanks!

[@Ramonafloyd]

Me too .Goodtimes

[@4senseless]

It's all about music, you see?

[@hardmember]

Patio dining was always a hit precovid

[@greenswag7763]

Hey, could I use your video for making a video?

[@edwardespinoza36]

I work I west Hollywood now and largely it looks the same, except a few new hotels on the strip. The Edition hotel on Doheny and sunset. Corner of Hillsdale and Sunset will be a new arts club by Gwyneth Paltrows people...

[@hicks727]

Pretty much over.

[@Pigeonmaster-zt5ly]

Yep.

[@ericochoa4271]

wow i was 1 yr and 10 months old

[@gerardoaguilar4579]

Boomer Bomb so February 89 ?

[@mohammedalfatlawi9476]

Nice city 🌹🌹

[@blksunshine2206]

1990?