Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sugarbabydoll 

Cover art for Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale lyrics by Love

What's Clark and Hilldale? I thought it might have been the site of a festival held in the 60s, which this song was written about. Or maybe the names of 2 streets. But I have googled it and found nothing.

I'm pretty sure your right about it being street names. Sure I heard Arthur Lee say it was a couple of streets in LA where folks used to hang out back in the day. Don't quote me on that though. lol

There was a great documentary made about Love just before Arthur's death called 'LOVE STORY' and I think he mentioned it in that.

Yea, it's hard to google because it's parallel streets, not an intersection. However, knowing that Love was an LA band, I searched Hilldale and found that "between Clark and Hilldale" is a short stretch of Sunset Boulevard, notably containing the famous Whiskey-A-Go-Go. With the Viper Room, Roxy, and Rainbow Room just a block or two away, this area has basically been the epicenter of LA's music scene for almost 50 years now (although the Silverlake / Echo Park area has become a major player in the past decade or so.)

So yea, I imagine between Clark and Hilldale was a...