The Sunset Strip, shown here in red, is the 1.7-mile section of Sunset Boulevard that crosses through the city limits of West Hollywood, connecting Hollywood in the east to Beverly Hills in west. The dotted line indicates roughly two blocks of Sunset in Hollywood – where both the Garden of Allah Hotel and Schwab’s Drug Store were located – that are informally considered to be part of the Sunset Strip. In the era covered in this book, what is now West Hollywood was unincorporated and sometimes referred to as “the county strip.” (Click map for larger view)