Located on a triangular traffic island at Sunset and Crescent Heights, Pandora's Box became the flashpoint for the Sunset Strip Curfew Riots of 1966.
Tensions between long-haired youth and police enforcing a strict 10 PM curfew exploded at this location, inspiring Stephen Stills to write the Buffalo Springfield anthem "For What It's Worth." The venue was demolished by the city in 1967 specifically to stop the gathering of counterculture youth. Site remains a traffic island/median.
Counterculture gathering place. Folk rock.
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