Originally posted by
Tourmaline
To this day, I still confuse the Clover Club with the Players Club (also on Sunset Blvd)
So to be honest, I didn't realize the Clover Club looked like this. (it looks more like a retaining wall than a nightclub)
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Brief history:
For one thing, the site was originally a palatial private home. I'm not sure when it was torn down....or remodeled into the club. (does anyone know?)
By February 1930 it was called the Sphinx Club. As of March 1933 it was operating as Club Sokoloeff.
In August 1933, it was the “Hahn Club” according to a permit to make some alterations to the building, Nola Hahn being another gambler associated with 8477.
Soon after it adopted the name by which this address is most famously associated: the Clover Club.
We discussed Nola Hahn on NLA back in 2011 (he was also associated with the Club Continental out by the Glendale Airport), but as far as I know
we were never able to locate a photograph of Mr. Hahn
.....until now.
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ilyNews%3A1277
also at
https://jhgraham.com/2016/06/16/8477-sunset-blvd/
That's him in the center
, facing the camera. [circa 1935]
below: Here's the building permit that was mentioned earlier.
....for alterations to 8477 Sunset Blvd., the “Hahn Club,” soon to be renamed the Clover Club.
8-14-1933.
found at
https://jhgraham.com/2016/06/16/8477-sunset-blvd/
By 1938, Hahn ended his partnership in the Clover Club, & then bought the Trocadero from Billy Wilkerson. He kept the Trocadero for a few years
then ventured to Las Vegas where he opened the highly successful Colony Restaurant.
Mr. Hahn committed suicide in 1957.
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The following image is from
lapl, so there's a good possibility we've seen it before on NLA.
A view of the Clover Club as seen from the southwest corner of La Cienega & Sunset Boulevard. [ca.1939]
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=16778
Originally posted by
Tourmaline (did anyone notice the discrepancies of the street numbers?)
LIFE
Here's the parking 'ramp' from the opposite direction [ca.1935]
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=10190
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building permit and information from:
https://jhgraham.com/2016/06/16/8477-sunset-blvd/
The 2011 post on Nola Hahn.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5160
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