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The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States in 1966.
Aug 17, 2022 · Music fans gathered at the Pandora’s Box club on Sunset Boulevard to protest a 10 p.m. curfew imposed by local residents during the “Sunset Strip Curfew Riots” on November 12, 1966. Getty. The teens, fed up with the nightly harassment, organized a series of protests beginning in fall 1966.
Mar 7, 2019 · The nautically themed Sea Witch at 8516 Sunset was the first Strip nightclub to regularly feature rock ‘n’ roll, particularly rockabilly, according to Riot on the Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’...
Nov 16, 2016 · Los Angeles was the epicenter of rupture in the ’60s — a civil rights uprising, a growing antiwar movement and a cultural revolution that was built in large part around the rock, folk and...
- steve.lopez@latimes.com
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Nov 11, 2016 · Los Angeles, home of the square and land of the freaks, was seriously infected with an outbreak of insurgent rock & roll genius in the 1960s.
- Jonny Whiteside
Aug 5, 2007 · Gangsters, nightclubs and rock ‘n’ roll make up much of the Sunset Strip’s colorful history -- along with a little-remembered tussle in 1966 that became known as “the Sunset Strip riots.”
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Nov 17, 2007 · Rock stations began to luridly warn that a ‘major riot’ was brewing, and cautioned kids away from the Strip on the 12th. This was irresistible publicity for a demonstration whose urgency was underlined by the arrest of 80 kids for curfew violations on Friday night.
