Sunset Boulevard's evolution over the last century: Here's a timeline of some of its key musical moments
1924: Sunset Plaza, the first commercial development on the Sunset Strip, opens.
1926: Early West Hollywood gay club Cafe Gala opens.
1935: Club Seville, an early iteration of influential Sunset Strip club Ciro's, opens. That spot is now the Comedy Store.
1938: CBS Columbia Square opens in Hollywood. The complex will eventually house recording studios where artists including the Byrds, Barbra Streisand and Simon & Garfunkel will record.
1940: Wallichs Music City, Hollywood's biggest record store for the next 35 years, opens at the northwest corner of Sunset and Vine Street.
October 1940: The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra christens the newly built Hollywood Palladium.
January 1941: The glamorous Hollywood club the Mocambo opens, where Sinatra makes his solo Los Angeles debut.
1942: Songwriter Johnny Mercer co-founds Capitol Records above Wallichs Music City.
1949: Specialty Records, which would become home to artists including Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Little Richard and Wynona Carr, moves from Venice to West Hollywood. (8508 Sunset Blvd.)
1951: Influential rock 'n' roll disc jockey Art Laboe begins broadcasting his radio show
