European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hollywood tawdry marketplace for sex die or Cal Lack i is town by Mike Mewhinney they Call it tinsel but like an aging Beauty Queen Hollywood is snowing her the glitter that once dazzled and delighted Mil Lions is now tarnished and years Hollywood was a magic name that lured tourist from places like pcs Molnes to the West they hoped to see once and for All the fantasy land where their favorite movies were its streets Are clogged with a bizarre Assort ment of prostitutes and each hawking their sexual wares to the Bermuda shorts set from the local Cray line tour or anybody else with Tacky clubs featuring live nude acts line once Classy Hollywood crime u ranging from routine purse snatch legs to robbery and local schools and churches keep their doors locked even during Daylight its theres nothing Good out said one frustrated bar owner glancing out into Vine he added that he has been beaten and robbed by thugs coming in from the around id at i have to have a few martinis just to be in he a disgruntled Coffee shop owner takes even a dimmer View a Tell pm to Burn it tear it the coffees hop who opened his 24hour business last was forced to close in March after the Street including prostitutes and assorted took Over the fright ening away his regular customers secretaries of he now says be cant sell his Hollywood Boulevard business because people Are afraid to buy but if plans envisioned by the Hollywood Revil Aliza Uon committee and other concerned Community groups become ail that will change gone will be the dreary and dilapidated night the disreputable and Dingy sex the lice Ridden Massage Par in their As committee members envision will be a vibrant Community that recaptures the Glamor of the 30s and when Hollywood was in its and apparently Many citizens Are willing to work far for the first time As Long As 1 can the Community is United in said los Angeles City Council member Peggy a longtime Hollywood resident and committee she sees he committees efforts As merely the beginning of a Teirila Thallon process she Hopes will Snow Ball Over the years As More citizens pitch the volunteers will work on several committee pro including removal of Gaudy Neon signs from Molly Wood closure of do legged improvement of Street a cuu Jown in traffic con More restoration of older residences and commercial buildings and even construction of the Long awaited Hollywood museum to display mementos of the motion picture but crime if us big to combat h los an Geles police chief de Davis has ordered of Dieudon per on a rotating to an additional vice squad into Hollywood even though it luvs the donor division and Edmund Brown has asked that the California Highway patrol supplement sheriffs forces alone the once hic Browns idea Drew Swift criticism from sheriff Peter who said the move was political and ridiculous because the patrols function is traffic not he also said Brown never asked a crime culture thrives in Hollywood mainly be cause said cant Harry Holmes of the lands Hollywood there is a tendency to talk about prostitution As a single bid that really Doest reflect what the problem theres a substantial number of people who live off the such As pimps and various bunco society is gradually eliminating the number of places for robbery you cant Rob a cab or a bus of very much anymore because the Drivers Don carry any change and neither do Gas stations at so the Street robber comes to knowing a prostitute will be charging a trick from to and that a lot of cub will be carried not Only by her but also by her theres been a 10 per cent increase Over last year in the number of Street Holmes Auto theft is up h per last year the police department arrested some male and female prostitutes ranging in age from 14 to Holmes with about a per cent of those being ume there Are Only four officers walking the Hollywood Foo patrol beat in pairs during each eight hour Holmes said ideally the division needs an additional so officers to Deal with the various crime but he bonuses Stevenson efforts to put the divisions 12 vice cops Back in uniform to supplement the foot obviously a prostitute int going to wild a uni formed of Fleer said Stevenson also wants a so called Detroit ordinance that separate sex oriented businesses by feet and prohibit them from locating closer than Sod feel Roro schools or Page 14 the stars and stripes profusion of show Biz billboards is More i Bill Oai by Robert 1 new York the Road called the Sunset strip mites and it is not very pretty sandwiched on one Side Between the privileged estates of Beverly Hills and on the other by it tawdry stretch of Sunset Boule where some of this cites busiest Era begin work each afternoon about the strip at congested and the great nightclubs of Hollywood Golden the and Nave either appeared or been camouflaged with new names and new identities or in one Case by a topless the old Glamour is but Young people a new generation of Young people still bring their dreams to Sunset carrying guitars and other they come from around the country in Hopes of Landing a recording few Hollywood is the Crea live heart of the nations billion year recorded male and the Sunset strip is both its Case and its spiritual in the music business these Duys the ultimate Symbol of Success int a a Mercedes Benz or a Beach Home in although in this very materialistic society of the nou Wau Roche they Are very ii is a place to the Sun on Sunset Boulevard billboard As it is called by some vanity there Are dozens of them huge billboards that advertise Roc music stars and their newest there is nothing like it anywhere else in the for the signs advertise albums by Gregg Marvin Kenny Helen Graham Central Kris Kris Tot bad company and Many the record companies concede that the billboards do not sell the they Are not aimed at but at other people in Ike record the companies sign up for a space on the Bill boards a year or More in Advance because there in great and they pay a month in rent to Why people in the butt Ness say to Massage the egos of the recording artists in a world of for once get a Chance to see their names to lights on the Broadway of Tobej Cord ing to somebody in be having Row hum billboard on toe strip it mkt Paytot the used to be its people starting ant Drewn says boy on tune manager of Bob Dylan other left of record bassinets to Opta a chinese Restan Mot the strip called to crier la the Muic an ego thing everybody wants their name on the Odds Rodney a local radio personality who has claimed the title mayor of the Sunset since his Sal the actor and the victim at an unsolved Murier a Block from the strip last caused him Sunset like Broadway and Pennsylva Nia is one of those streets whose names symbolizes something More than a until tha Lassa its nightclubs were a Symbol of the old Holly o taxi Harr and