Guitar Town Artwork, Bus Stop, Hollywood, CA
N 34° 05.445 W 118° 22.978
11S E 372417 N 3773081
These two guitars are a real hit at this Bus Stop in West Hollywood, CA.
Waymark Code: WMAP69
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2011
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The Sunset Strip guitars
City of West Hollywood California
These guitars were painted and are on display as part of "The Sunset Strip Guitars", sponsored by the City of West Hollywood California
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The City of West Hollywood, and legendary Gibson Guitars will launch GuitarTown: a public art installation of 25+, ten-foot-tall, fiberglass Gibson guitar sculptures, which will be matched with (and celebrate!) Sunset Strip landmarks such as the Whisky a Go Go, the Roxy, and the former “Riot Hyatt”: hotel of choice for rockers and the groupies who loved them. (Youngsters, see Almost Famous.) Scattered along the 1.6 mile Strip, each of the giant guitars celebrates a specific period (e.g. the Jazz Age, the counterculture 60's), a band/artist (i.e. the Doors, Slash, Motley Crue) or a significant Sunset Strip business owner (such as nightclub founders Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and Elmer Valentine of The Roxy Theatre, Whisky A Go-Go and Rainbow Bar & Grill.) The Strip officially “re-opens” at 5:00 at the Comedy Store and the Andaz West Hollywood with a ribbon cutting ceremony and a classic car caravan; the names of the artists who created the guitars will be revealed at the press conference at the Rainbow at 6PM. Mark your music mojo maps accordingly, Go Go’ers.
More info (including lots of photos of the guitars) can be found here: (
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The Sunset Strip Business Association committee initiated a $5.4 million Sunset Strip Beautification Project in January 2010, giving West Hollywood a facelift with improvements such repaving the boulevard (for the first time in 75 years), making parking meters credit card accessible, replacing faulty traffic signals, , planting new trees, a beutification project involving painted guitars for display, and more. The official “re-opening” of The Strip was on Thursday, August 12th, 2010.