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The Zone

1037 N Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Bath
1991 2021
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2 story bathhouse in West Hollywood "Neon and blacklight, a giant maze with interesting rooms around every corner" (Yelp)

"Owner Peter Deep opened the legal club in 1991....Deep applied for a zoning variance, which he needed because he was near a residential area, and got it--no doubt because the club is immediately surrounded by light industry....He says he spent $100,000 meeting building codes and works hard to be a good neighbor, cleaning up the street, hiring security and providing valet parking for his customers.

Still, he agrees with them that in this city of commercial strips running through residential neighborhoods, it is tough to find a site that meets the city’s zoning criteria for adult entertainment businesses: They can’t be within 1,000 feet of another such establishment, or within 500 feet of a residential zone, religious institution, public park or school." L.A. Times, Oct. 27, 1997

"“I opened The Zone on July 19, 1991,” original owner Peter Deep posted in our Instagram account @weho_times. “LAPD came to the opening and threw me in jail overnight. No charges filed, it’s just I had the audacity to open a gay club in LA (as opposed to WeHo which is not part of City of LA).” WeHo Times, March 22, 2022

Closed permanently during the Covid pandemic.

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