Motown's West Coast Office -- 1960's

[jsmith]

I know that Motown's LA set-up in the 60's had it's own office . . . BUT what was the address ????
. . . . ALSO did the LA operation have it's own dedicated stationary, letterhead, etc. in the 1963 -- 1969 period ??
... AND ... did guys like Marc Gordon have official titles in the Motown set-up [[West Coast VP or whatever) ?
Both Patrice Holloway & Marc Gordon were gone from Motown by summer 66, why did Marc leave ??
... AND ... who replaced him as west coast Motown chief [[Frank Wilson ? )??

[jsmith]

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[carole cucumber]

pp 63-67
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1GO_dDo1oH4C&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false

[[excusing errors such as the spelling of 'Berry' Gordy, year of opening of the West Coast Office, and name of groups Marc managed, 'Go Where You Wanna Go' s spelling and chart position, for starters)

[jsmith]

Many thanks.

[soulwally]

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Surely that's good ol' Otis Williams on the left?

[greg jones]

Motown's 1960's West Coast Office was, I believe, in the Sunset Vine Tower. The Address at the time was, again I believe, 6250 West Sunset Blvd. A Couple of other record and publishing companies were in the building. In the 1990's the building was rehabbed into apartments and now has it's entrance on the Vine St, with an address of 1480 Vine St.

Around 1970 or 1971 or so when Mr. Gordy started doing more things in LA, they moved to another building on the South side of Sunset a couple of blocks further west. Not sure if it was the CNN Building or the Next Hi-Rise West.

Then around 1973 is when they got the top floors of the Sunset Argyle Building [[UCB Bank Building) at 6255 W Sunset Blvd. They stayed there until Mr. Gordy sold Motown in 1988. Gordy moved his office then in with Jobete Music in the same building until he sold that.

[greg jones]

Found the address for the early 1970's... 6464 West Sunset Blvd.

The 6255 W Sunset Blvd building in the '80's became knows as the Motown Building as they were the largest tenants and the bank no longer owned the building.

[jsmith]

Many thanks.

[marv2]

Jsmith that is a great picture/article. Thank you!