Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, first published in 1989, is the personal memoir of late author and The Doors' publicist Danny Sugerman, who went on to manage Ray Manzarek's solo-career.

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Per LA Weekly , Nash's real name was Adel Gharib Nasrallah, and he built his empire from a measly hot dog stand into a massive night club empire that reportedly included as many as 36 locations, including hot clubs like the Paradise Ballroom.

During the robbery, as Nash was being made to open the safe, Lind accidentally shot and wounded Diles. m. on July 1, 1981, two days after the robbery, an unknown number of unidentified men entered the Wonderland Avenue townhouse and bludgeoned Launius, DeVerell, Miller, and Barbara Richardson (Lind's girlfriend who had been visiting) to death.

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As of 2007 a vacant lot, the corner of Lookout Mountain Avenue and Laurel Canyon Blvd (2401 Laurel Canyon Blvd) [34] is where the famous 1915 "Log Cabin" mansion stood, with its 80-foot living room, floor to ceiling fireplace, bowling alley (there was no indoor swimming pool as previously stated) [35] It was once occupied by silent film star Tom Mix [36] but spent years on the rental market.The next morning, Ron Launius, Lind, and Deverell carry out the robbery, while wheel-man Tracy McCourt waits outside in a car, serving as lookout. His exposure to the decadent music industry world of parties, groupies, and drugs at such a young age would facilitate a relentless heroin addiction [among other addictions] [ citation needed] that nearly killed him. The service ended sometime in 1915 and was replaced by Stanley steam buses, the overhead wires taken down. Nash was eventually sentenced to 37 months in prison after a RICO conviction that included conspiracy to commit the Wonderland murders, but no one who swung the blunt metal objects — the pipes or the hammers — was convicted.

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Due to reasons that will become obvious in a moment, Holmes' exact role in the Wonderland murders of 1981 is unclear.

Through Lind's story (told in flashbacks), we are introduced to some of the people who partied at Wonderland. While Nash came to see Holmes as a friend, the Wonderland Gang saw Nash as a target to rob, which they did on June 29, 1981. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. But the story wasn’t convincing; it seemed more likely to jury and public alike that the porn star had simply been caught in the crossfire. The following year, blues artist John Mayall recorded and released the album Blues from Laurel Canyon based on his experiences during a vacation that he spent in the Canyon.