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The Phone Booth

From the Sunset Strip to West Hollywood, and back.

Now it can be told; the true story of LA’s most famous topless bar,
and favorite watering hole of Jim Morrison… The Phone Booth.

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Century Plaza Hotel Century City

Century Plaza Hotel, 1963.

For more original archival photographs of Century City…
Los Angeles Photo Archive

Architecture Archive

Modernism, Brutalism, or Futurism. Whichever you fancy, the archive contains material from three leading architects, digitized from various out-of-print books.

Vintage Los Angeles archive of Los Angeles Magazine.

It was said that by the late 1950s, there was no specific Los Angeles city magazine.

On the heels of two other city magazines folding (Fortnight and Script), came the Southern California Prompter — referred to by the cats as simply, “Prompter”. Founded by David Ral Brown, the city-oriented publication changed its name in 1961 to Los Angeles Magazine.

Vintage Los Angeles archive of Los Angeles Magazine.

Focus on Wonderland / Directed by Hawley Lawrence

The December 1969 issue of Los Angeles Magazine looks at "Los Angeles: Focus on Wonderland". The short promo was made for United Airlines by Filmfair Studios in Studio City.

The production house produced ads for a variety of companies including Goodyear ("Woman Stranded/No Man") and Procter & Gamble.

The United Airlines promo featured Bob Beck and Judy Rockley. Beck taught acting for a few years and worked with Merrick Pictures on Vine St.

He was reportedly going to appear in Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? (1970), though his name is not in the credits. Judy Rockley had one or two minor screen credits to her name, but was busier as a model for the Flair Agency.

She appeared in the January 1965 issue of Los Angeles Times Home magazine on their carpet and rug installation section. In addition to household appliances, Rockley modeled for automobile companies.

A 1967 sales brochure for AMC was more than impressed, "blonde from Los Angeles by the name of Judy Rockley , is far prettier than any cougar (animal or and clad in a gold - lame , mini - skirted tracksuit , will help introduce the Javelin in New York City later this month..."