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Article: Out & About in Beverly Hills; Celebrating 75 Years Of Eccentricity And Excess
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 19, 1989
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Beverly Hills is less a discrete geographical entity than it is a
style, a way of life, an attitude. The borders are blurry, segueing
uncertainly into Hollywood, Bel Air, the City of Los Angeles and
other equally amorphous patches of the great metropolitan mass known
to most of us as "El Ay." In the showbiz heyday of the 1930s, most
of the town's considerable nightlife actually took place in The
Strip, an unincorporated no man's land between Beverly Hills and
Hollywood.
Physically fizzy and muzzy as it is, there is still no mistaking
the place: to stand Gertrude Stein's old saw about Oakland (wrong in