The Trip and The Whisky A-Go-Go, Sunset Strip, January-May 1966 (Hollywood 66 I)

A 1964 photo of the Whisky A-Go-Go, with a dancer on the raised stage over the crowd ( from the indispensable Alison Martino and her site Vintage LA ) Hollywood likes to style itself as the center of the universe, and when it comes to mass culture that's not far wrong. It's one thing to talk about art and artists and how they form up into a larger whole, when a few creative individuals find…