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Last year Los Angeles Magazine looked back at the 1980s, the decade they declare changed L.A. They focus more on the lighter side of things—the Go-Gos and Wolfgang Puck's salmon pizza, for example—but there was also crime, crack, and dirty grit right alongside the neon hues. And just as it was the last hurrah for strip clubs in NYC's Times Square, so it was for glam rockers on L.A.'s Sunset Strip.
Click through for a small look at the sprawl throughout that decade, courtesy of UCLA's fantastic archive, and below you'll find some video—drink a sip of Tab every time you see feathered hair.
