"This was an era, Elterman says, in which the culture could still thrive below the constraints of organized publicity. He would hang out at the Tropicana Hotel on Santa Monica Boulevard (now a Ramada Inn), the Starwood, and Chasen's, at the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Doheny Drive. He made friends with Rodney Bingenheimer, the one-time 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip,' who brought the young man to parties and on out-of-town rock trips.
"'Everybody was friendly. Frank [Sinatra] would pose, Sammy [Davis Jr.] would pose, Cher. You fast-forward 30 years and you have bedlam.'"
Nicholas White in the Los Angeles Times profiles paparazzo Brad Elterman as a display of his 1970s and early 1980s photographs opens at Equator Books.
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