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Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura ...
March 2015 Issue. An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca. They made music together, took drugs together, formed bands together, slept together.
Laurel Canyon is a busily trafficked, steep canyon with lots of trees. There is some great architecture here, but it's hard to actually see due to traffic, sweetness and trees. And don't everything about walking it. Check out Nichols Canyon instead.
The story of Laurel Canyon is the story of the 1960s and 70s—drenched in beautiful music, free love, good drugs and idealism… and ultimately destroyed by money, success, bad drugs, and murder. Some places breathe magic.
From The Doors to Joni Mitchell and Frank Zappa, Laurel Canyon has been a haven for some of the greatest musical icons of the counterculture era. This picturesque canyon in Los Angeles was an integral part of the flourishing creative landscape of the 60s and 70s, inspiring countless timeless classics.
The geography of Laurel Canyon itself is what helped it feel like an artist colony. As Slater explains, the houses being in close proximity to one other made it easy for artists to collaborate....
Laurel Canyon makes clear that the music that defined American culture was itself defined by a specific place in a specific city—a city that previously had been famous for its supposed lack of...
