Strip Bits
Boundaries of the Sunset Strip: Crescent Heights Boulevard on the east, Doheny Road on the west.
Length: 1.7 miles.
Number of hotels on the Strip: 8.
Number of House of Blues souvenir T-shirts sold per week: 300 to 500.
Number of acts booked at the House of Blues since April 1994: 900.
Number of Classic Shredded Chicken Salads sold per day at the Sunset Plaza Chin Chin: 200. Number of billboards on the Strip, including advertisements painted on buildings: 67.
Number of people who attended Tony Bennett book signing at Book Soup on a recent rainy weekday afternoon: 300.
Book Soup’s top-selling title in 1996: “You’ll Never Make Love in This Town Again.”
Number of psychics’ storefronts on the Strip: 2.
Maps to stars’ homes sold at Gil Turner’s Fine Wines and Spirits per week: 250.
Most expensive bottle sold at Gil Turner’s: Magnum of La Grande Dame Brut champagne, 1988, $450.
Address at which “77 Sunset Strip” was filmed: 8524.
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