VintageLA, for example-which I can't recommend enough-has features on the Aquarius Theater and The Whisky-A-Go-Go.
Looking at the best retro-LA sites, like VintageLA, is like reading about American popular culture history from the inside, and 60s rock history has its place in that world. LA always celebrates old theaters or nightclubs from brighter days, so often historical sites are better known now than they were back in the day. Los Angeles, more than any other American city, traffics in the glorification of its own history, particularly when it comes to entertainment. On the whole, Los Angeles was pretty indifferent to the Grateful Dead in the 60s, and so the story of the Dead in LA is never even addressed. Sure, they sold a few concert tickets, but so did every other band, ever. Los Angeles is America's other great entertainment capital, however, and the Dead had an opposite experience when they played Los Angeles. Dead fans in Manhattan and Brooklyn made playing the city perenially profitable for the band, and that was the platform for expanding their audience to New Jersey, Philadelphia, Long Island, Boston and the rest of the East Coast. The first is San Francisco, where the Dead rose to underground infamy, and the second is New York, where the Dead became economically viable. The rise of the Grateful Dead is a tale of two cities. The Shrine Exposition Hall: The Grateful Dead in Los Angeles 1967-68
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