Many stars of Hollywood's burgeoning film industry of the 1920s and '30s found solace in the Hollywood Hills.

With the city of Los Angeles cracking down on gambling and alcohol many casinos and restaurants including the Trocadero and Mocambo's opened on the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard just below the Hills and outside of the city limits known as The Sunset Strip due to relaxed law enforcement.

The Strip has since become synonymous with celebrity entertainment, changing with the trends and fads of the times. During the '50s Las Vegas started offering higher pay for performers so the Strip fell into disrepair, but the '60s and '70s saw Sunset Strip at the height of its popularity with the opening of such clubs as the Roxy theater, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco and the whiskey a Go Go, helping to cement the strip in the pages of pop culture history by producing the original Go Go dancer and inspiring the lyrics of the Buffalo Springfield song "What it Takes," penned during the teen curfew riots on the Strip in 1966.

The popularity of the Strip waned in the '80s, but a revitalization of the district began in the '90s with the opening of new clubs and restaraunts such as The Key Club and the Viper Room.

The clubs of The Sunset Strip have produced some of Rock 'n' Roll's elite bands including The Doors, The Mamas and the Papas, The Runaways, and Van Halen.

Podcast Written and Narrated by Lindsay Whidden, Public History Student at the University of West Florida.