Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"The address was on a winding road in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. We would have had a good view of the city up here, but the mist had closed in."
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"I drove up the winding drive to Sunset Boulevard, and stopped to wait for the light."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"Traffic was heavy. He crept slowly along Sunset; he had plenty of time to think."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"He knew there would be rush hour traffic starting at this time of day and he should get up to Sunset, where traffic moved a little better."
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West"Tod rode in the front of the one Claude drove and as they went down Sunset Boulevard he described Mrs. Jenning for him."
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West"He worked occasionally in horse‐operas and spent the rest of his time in front of a saddlery store on Sunset Boulevard. In the window of this store was an enormous Mexican saddle covered with carved silver..."
Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley"The great brocade curtains behind the desk were open to a view of the mountains behind Sunset Boulevard."
Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley"I pulled onto Sunset Boulevard and turned left, toward the band of fiery orange light on the eastern horizon."
Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley"Did you kill Teran? I asked as we swung onto Sunset Boulevard."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"When she got back into town she drove aimlessly down Sunset, pulled into a drive-in at the comer of La Brea, and, briefly flushed into purposefulness by a Coca-Cola, walked barefoot across the hot asphalt to a telephone booth."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"the old gym on Sunset Boulevard near Alvarado was closed now."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"I got out my old Thomas Guide. Sunset Boulevard up to Los Feliz. Dundee Drive."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"Her uncle drove east on Sunset, facing the sunrise, then onto Vermont, in Los Feliz."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"Angel said the address out loud, and Mrs. Bunny said, “Hollywood? Sunset Boulevard? Shit.”"
City of Night
by John Rechy"as cars like glowing-eyed bugs curve along Sunset Boulevard as if in general alarm"
City of Night
by John Rechy"Then the motor started uncertainly, the car sped away, around the corner, into Sunset Boulevard, as I entered the Rendezvous Room."
City of Night
by John Rechy"A few days later, in an all‐night coffeehouse on Sunset, he sat next to me."
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler"He hit the bottom of the canyon and went west on Sunset."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"They walked the old streets, Hyperion over to Vermont, stopping at the grocery store at the other “junction”—Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard—"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"I’m with Trent in a yellow train that sits on Sunset. Trent’s smoking and drinking a Pepsi and I stare out the window and into the headlights of passing cars."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"I tell her I’m sorry and turn off Hollywood Boulevard because it’s too brightly lit and take Sunset and then drive onto her street"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"Then I drive past the gates of the house and onto Sunset.I turn the radio up, loud."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"As I pull onto Sunset I pass the billboard I saw this morning that read “Disappear Here” and I look away and kind of try to get it out of my mind."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"the billboard on Sunset"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"then onto Sunset and take Beverly Glen to Mulholland..."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"We pass the billboard on Sunset. Disappear Here. Wonder if he’s for sale."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"Huge green skull leering at drivers from a billboard on Sunset, hooded, holding a pyx, bony fingers beckoning."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"Four o’clock. Sunset Boulevard. The sun is huge and burning, an orange monster, as Julian pulls into the parking lot and for some reason he’s passed the hotel twice..."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"And so I drove back to L.A. and went to a movie and sat by myself and then drove around until one or so and sat in a restaurant on Sunset and drank coffee and finished my cigarettes and stayed until they closed."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"She’s sitting on the terrace of The Old World on Sunset waiting for me."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Las Brisas on a rangily barren stretch of Sunset Boulevard near Dodger Stadium, where cars went seventy miles an hour."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"I drove him to Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood, the Burger King of health care, running my horn through intersections along Sunset Boulevard."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"picking through the used-film bins at Amoeba Records on Sunset, hold up a copy of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front..."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"The street lights on Sunset get short-circuited, so a yellow light will be flashing at an intersection and then a green one will blink on for a couple of seconds, followed by the yellow and then the red and green lights will start to shine at the same time."