The Sunset Strip curfew riots , also known as the " hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture -era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood , California , United States , in By the mids, The Sunset Strip had become a place dominated by young members of the hippie and rock and roll counterculture.
At the behest of business owners and residents, in the Los Angeles City Council imposed nightly curfews intended to curtail the growing "nuisance" of hippie antiwar protests. On November 12, , fliers were distributed along the Strip inviting people to demonstrate later that day. The unrest continued the next night and off and on throughout November and December. Meanwhile, the local administration had decided to get tough, and rescinded the "youth permits" of twelve of the Strip's clubs, thereby making them off-limits to anybody under According to Timeline 's Matt Reimann, the riots anticipated a cultural rift that only grew in the coming years.
Regarding the importance of the Sunset Strip riots, The Guardian journalist Woody Haut argues that "it was, if nothing else, an early salvo in the "culture wars" , a battle which continues to this day The incident provided the basis for the low-budget teen exploitation film Riot on Sunset Strip , [ 11 ] and inspired multiple songs:. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.
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