Audio slide show: Keeper of the door

Doorman Stephanie Mata has been working the entrances to Los Angeles nightclubs for the last 25 years. Her current location, On the Rox, is a small, intimate 21-and-over bar above the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.

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