It's the beginning of a new season, and we are shifting our focus back to the West Coast!

Long before The Beverly Hills Hotel or the Chateau Marmont, there was The Garden of Allah... home to a whole artist community - of all types - from the 1920s to the end of 1950s. What started as the private residence of the famous silent screen star Alla Nazimova became a 30-year-long party on the Sunset Strip that created a culture, a colony, and a legend in the Hollywood scene.

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