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	'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are ~~available at~~ the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>		'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are or were in the ONE Archives at USC.</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>
	== Nationally known for young hustlers ==		== Nationally known for young hustlers ==
	[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref name=GoldCupPride />]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:		[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref name=GoldCupPride />]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:

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	'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>		'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>
	== Nationally known for young hustlers ==		== Nationally known for young hustlers ==
	[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref name=GoldCupPride>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:		[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref name=GoldCupPride />]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:
	<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation		<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation
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	'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>		'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>
	== Nationally known for young hustlers ==		== Nationally known for young hustlers ==
	[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref=GoldCupPride>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:		[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref name=GoldCupPride>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:
	<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation		<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation
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	== Photos at ONE Archive ==		== Photos at ONE Archive ==

	The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California library has digitized photos in its collection, including of The Gold Cup.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5182 Gold Cup Negatives] in ONE Archives</ref> Some of the scanned negatives are labeled as including "Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5185 Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, and there are a few others just of "Street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5215 Street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, which appear to be less than a block away, at Las Palmas and Selma. All these photos are in the daytime, although the texts (and song) above refer to night or 24-hour hustling. There is also a color photo of, "The crowd at Los Angeles's first Christopher Street West pride parade in front of the Gold Cup Restaurant. 1970."<ref=GoldCupPride>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 Gay pride parade crowd in front of Gold Cup] in ONE Archives</ref>"		The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California library has digitized photos in its collection, including of The Gold Cup.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5182 Gold Cup Negatives] in ONE Archives</ref> Some of the scanned negatives are labeled as including "Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5185 Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, and there are a few others just of "Street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5215 Street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, which appear to be less than a block away, at Las Palmas and Selma. All these photos are in the daytime, although the texts (and song) above refer to night or 24-hour hustling. There is also a color photo of, "The crowd at Los Angeles's first Christopher Street West pride parade in front of the Gold Cup Restaurant. 1970."<ref name=GoldCupPride>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 Gay pride parade crowd in front of Gold Cup] in ONE Archives</ref>"

	A search will find photos for sale in sites offering vintage Hollywood images, and a least one interior photo is available.		A search will find photos for sale in sites offering vintage Hollywood images, and a least one interior photo is available.

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	'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>		'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>
	== Nationally known for young hustlers ==		== Nationally known for young hustlers ==
	[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives], University of Southern California. No copyright claimed; other, copyrighted, photos are available online in the ONE Archives.</ref>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:		[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref=GoldCupPride>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:
	<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation		<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation
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	== Photos at ONE Archive ==		== Photos at ONE Archive ==

	The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California library has digitized photos in its collection, including of The Gold Cup.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5182 Gold Cup Negatives] in ONE Archives</ref> Some of the scanned negatives are labeled as including "Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5185 Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, and there are a few others just of "Street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5215 Street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, which appear to be less than a block away, at Las Palmas and Selma. All these photos are in the daytime, although the texts (and song) above refer to night or 24-hour hustling. There is also a color photo of, "The crowd at Los Angeles's first Christopher Street West pride parade in front of the Gold Cup Restaurant. 1970."<ref>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 Gay pride parade crowd in front of Gold Cup] in ONE Archives</ref>"		The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California library has digitized photos in its collection, including of The Gold Cup.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5182 Gold Cup Negatives] in ONE Archives</ref> Some of the scanned negatives are labeled as including "Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5185 Gold Cup restaurant and street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, and there are a few others just of "Street hustlers"<ref>[https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-5215 Street hustlers] in ONE Archives</ref>, which appear to be less than a block away, at Las Palmas and Selma. All these photos are in the daytime, although the texts (and song) above refer to night or 24-hour hustling. There is also a color photo of, "The crowd at Los Angeles's first Christopher Street West pride parade in front of the Gold Cup Restaurant. 1970."<ref=GoldCupPride>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 Gay pride parade crowd in front of Gold Cup] in ONE Archives</ref>"

	A search will find photos for sale in sites offering vintage Hollywood images, and a least one interior photo is available.		A search will find photos for sale in sites offering vintage Hollywood images, and a least one interior photo is available.

Sneeuwbol: /* Nationally known for young hustlers */ Photo added

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	'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>		'''The Gold Cup''' at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas was "a notoriously sleazy dump of a coffee shop". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410011139/http://www.tvparty.com/tvp-AC/homeroom1/12-1-80.html Eye, Billy. "In search of punk life?"]. ''Data-Boy Magazine'', Hollywood. December 1, 1980. The printed editions are available at the [https://onearchives.andornot.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fonearchives.andornot.com%2F&TN=opac&SN=AUTO8979&SE=1629&RN=0&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=2&XP=&RF=WebBrief&EF=&DF=WebFull&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=21514&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 ONE Archives at USC]</ref>"Once a beacon for teenage runaways, the Gold Cup attracted the worst elements of Hollywood Boulevard sleaze."<ref name=Fein1990>[https://archive.org/details/lamusicalhistory0000fein/page/50/mode/2up Fein, Art. The Gold Cup] "The L.A. musical history tour: a guide to the rock and roll landmarks of Los Angeles". Boston : Faber and Faber, 1990</ref>
	== Nationally known for young hustlers ==		== Nationally known for young hustlers ==
	The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:		[[Image:Gold Cup.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|''Crowds watch Los Angeles's first Pride parade in 1970 in front of the Gold Cup''<ref>[https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OX9JWY4 ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives], University of Southern California. No copyright claimed; other, copyrighted, photos are available online in the ONE Archives.</ref>]]The Gold Cup was a hangout and pick-up place for young male hustlers. An online source compares it to a location where runaway teenage girls congregated, "A different kind of same kind of place was The Gold Cup coffee shop at Las Palmas and Hollywood. The neighborhood teemed with 15 and 16 year old boys who ran away before 'someone found out'. Since they couldn't get in bars, it was the Gold Cup for them. (But the boys had it better off... They got to keep their whole $5 instead of split it with a pimp!)"<ref>[https://depthshooter.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollywood-crime-scnes-procurment-of.html Depthshooter on "Hollywood Crime Scenes"]</ref> It was also a source for actors for pornographic films:
	<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation		<blockquote>One early filmmaker, Barry Knight, described how “central casting in those days was The Gold Cup restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmos [in L.A.]. Whenever they needed an actor, or an actor didn’t show up, they’d go down to ‘central casting’...” (Douglas 1996a, p. 11).<ref>{{Citation
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Sneeuwbol: /* Popular Culture */ Better shot of the former Gold Cup

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Popular Culture: Better shot of the former Gold Cup

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	The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />		The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />

	The 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" recreated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, with stars DiCaprio and Pitt dining with Al Pacino at the Musso & Frank Grill, half a block from the Gold Cup's site at the corner of Las Palmas. <ref>[https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-locations-guide-musso-and-frank-1203284555/ Variety on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" locations]</ref> A look at YouTube "making of" videos, however, show that director Taratino neither reproduced the Gold Cup - it remained as it is today, a tattoo parlor - nor its teenage sidewalk hustlers.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IUpNHBYjO80?t=~~198~~ Youtube] Making of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - BTS On Location July 23, 24 & Oct 22, 23 2018</ref>		The 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" recreated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, with stars DiCaprio and Pitt dining with Al Pacino at the Musso & Frank Grill, half a block from the Gold Cup's site at the corner of Las Palmas. <ref>[https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-locations-guide-musso-and-frank-1203284555/ Variety on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" locations]</ref> A look at YouTube "making of" videos, however, show that director Taratino neither reproduced the Gold Cup - it remained as it is today, a tattoo parlor - nor its teenage sidewalk hustlers.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IUpNHBYjO80?t=359 Youtube] Making of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - BTS On Location July 23, 24 & Oct 22, 23 2018. </ref>

	== Linked to Lyric scandal ==		== Linked to Lyric scandal ==

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Popular Culture

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	The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />		The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />

	The 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" recreated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, with stars DiCaprio and Pitt dining with Al Pacino at the Musso & Frank Grill, half a block from the Gold Cup's site at the corner of Las Palmas. <ref>https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-locations-guide-musso-and-frank-1203284555/ Variety on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" locations</ref> A look at YouTube "making of" videos, however, show that director Taratino neither reproduced the Gold Cup - it remained as it is today, a tattoo parlor - nor its teenage sidewalk hustlers.		The 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" recreated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, with stars DiCaprio and Pitt dining with Al Pacino at the Musso & Frank Grill, half a block from the Gold Cup's site at the corner of Las Palmas. <ref>[https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-locations-guide-musso-and-frank-1203284555/ Variety on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" locations]</ref> A look at YouTube "making of" videos, however, show that director Taratino neither reproduced the Gold Cup - it remained as it is today, a tattoo parlor - nor its teenage sidewalk hustlers.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IUpNHBYjO80?t=198 Youtube] Making of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - BTS On Location July 23, 24 & Oct 22, 23 2018</ref>

	== Linked to Lyric scandal ==		== Linked to Lyric scandal ==

Sneeuwbol: /* Popular Culture */ Added "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

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Popular Culture: Added "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

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	<blockquote><center><big><b>KIDDIE PORN</b></big>		<blockquote><center><big><b>KIDDIE PORN</b></big>
	Sunday, May 15, 1977, with CBS News correspondents Mike Wallace and Morley Safer		Sunday, May 15, 1977, with CBS News correspondents Mike Wallace and Morley Safer

	(Produced by Barry Lando) </center>		(Produced by Barry Lando) </center>
	Sergeant MARTIN. Not only do your adults come up here looking for to satisfy their sexual pleasures, but you will also find the pornographers that's looking for models. A typical place for them to go would be in here to the Gold Cup restaurant here. This one down—		Sergeant MARTIN. Not only do your adults come up here looking for to satisfy their sexual pleasures, but you will also find the pornographers that's looking for models. A typical place for them to go would be in here to the Gold Cup restaurant here. This one down—
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	The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />		The 1977 punk "Trouble At The Cup" by Black Randy & Metrosquad, is written from the viewpoint of a runway. The lyrics include, "They say the boulevard is no place to be [...] I'd rather stand here and sell my dick" and complains of police violence, saying "Hollywood Boulevard is a military zone".<ref name=Fein1990 /> "In the late seventies there was a punk band called Arthur J and the Gold Cups, incorporating the names of two of the town’s most unsavory restaurants."<ref name=Fein1990 />

			The 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" recreated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, with stars DiCaprio and Pitt dining with Al Pacino at the Musso & Frank Grill, half a block from the Gold Cup's site at the corner of Las Palmas. <ref>https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-locations-guide-musso-and-frank-1203284555/ Variety on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" locations</ref> A look at YouTube "making of" videos, however, show that director Taratino neither reproduced the Gold Cup - it remained as it is today, a tattoo parlor - nor its teenage sidewalk hustlers.

	== Linked to Lyric scandal ==		== Linked to Lyric scandal ==