Senoff's 1970s West Coast Music Industry Photos and Memories
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Music Industry Sunset Strip Billboards

     One of the key promotional outlets we utilized in the 1970s (and thereafter) was the use of outdoor billboards to highlight new album releases, upcoming concerts and sometimes just to feed the egos of the music stars.  The costs were affordable to the record companies, usually about $3000-$5000 per board/per month and they were predominantly featured up and down the Sunset Strip (from about Fairfax to Doheny). 

    This section of the site spotlights some of the more unique billboards during that decade.    They are in no specific order of placement.

     The photos in this first grouping  are based on high-quality photography from the highly-praised, best-selling coffee-table tome by photographer Robert Landau, entitled "Rock and Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip".  Those photos are used with permission of the photographer and are all (c) Robert Landau.    Landau's book also tells the stories behind many of the billboards.    Note:  To purchase a copy of Landau's book, click here.
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A great story about Landau's book, with some photos of additional billboards and a few of the background details, appeared in this Rolling Stone essay.

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NOTE:  This website was created for purely entertainment and archival/educational purposes, for those of us who were involved in the music industry in the 1970's.  My intent is to bring a memory and hopefully a smile to your faces as you view photos of your friends and associates from those treasured years.  This is strictly a non-profit, non-commercial website.  Nothing is for sale on this site and we urge you to respect the copyright ownership of the photos that appear herein.  There are thousands of photos on this site and some are seemingly public domain shots that I used for purely illustrative purposes.  We have made every effort to contact  photo copyright holders when they are identified.  If you are a rights holder to any of the photos on this site and feel strongly about them not being displayed on this type of forum, please contact me and I will  immediately respond to  you and take down the photo(s), if you so desire. 

Also, if you have updated information on any of the narrative or photos on this website (or if you have photos or narrative that you would like me to display on this website), please contact me . 

To submit photos directly, please email them as jpeg attachments to:  psenoff@gmail.com.  For  best reproduction on this site, minimum file size should be 20KB and maximum  should be 5MB.   Thank you.
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