Whisky a Go Go
The Doors played here seven nights a week as the house band. That alone earns it a place on any tour of the Strip.
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Opened January 16, 1964 at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and North Clark Street, the Whisky popularized go-go dancing and anchored LA rock from the 1960s through the 1990s. Its very name traces to a 1947 Paris discothèque — à gogo means "in abundance" in French — and the club opened not as a pure disco but with live bands and a DJ spinning from a suspended cage above the crowd.
What to look for
- The stage where The Doors performed as house band, seven nights a week, in the mid-1960s
- The right side of the stage — the original DJ cage hung suspended there, where Rhonda Lane spun records between sets and go-go dancing took hold
- The corner position: the building sits at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and North Clark Street, with North San Vicente Boulevard running opposite
8901 Sunset Boulevard at North Clark Street, West Hollywood — on the Sunset Strip.
Whisky a Go Go is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.