Let's take a moment, now, to remember the heraled shopping centers of the early 1990s. These pre-Grove, pre-Hollywood & Highland, pre-West Hollywood Gateway (etc.) strip malls ushered in an earlier promise of neighborhood revival... yet ultimately fell short.
The big folly, of course, was the Hollywood Galaxy center. But the Gower Gulch center comes close. (At least it's still operating as it has.)
Located at the intersection of Gower and Sunset, "Gower Gulch" earned its claim to fame early last century, when actors gathered at the corner looking for work as cowboys in the countless westerns then being made.
More recently, the corner is home to a strip mall. It was there in the early 1990s that someone came up with the idea of doing a walk of fame -- combining the Hollywood Walk of Fame-style plaques with handprints a la the Chinese Theatre.
Of course, "Gower Gulch: Home of the Stars" seems a misnomer when your first star is...
Morton Downey Jr.! Followed by...
Paul Rodriguez!
And then here's the really sad part: There are two others, and that's it. None after 1993. An idea that didn't last long at all.
1 comment:
DO NOT park in their LOT! they have a towing scam going on with the local tow companies and sanctioned by the city... they make money off of jacking your car and then tell you its private property..they will charge you 114 and the little weasel mall cop gets a kick back...DO NOT GO THERE
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