What Happened to the Young Hollywood Club Scene? Where the A-List Parties Now

It's a Tuesday night, or maybe a Wednesday, in 2006 or 2007 or maybe even 2009. The date doesn't really matter. What does matter is that if you happened to be in Los Angeles, at a very specific intersection on Las Palmas Avenue just south of Hollywood Boulevard, you were suddenly at the epicenter of young celebrity culture.

You're standing outside Les Deux, just steps away from where the A-list set of actors, models and whatever else they're identifying as currently (DJs? Reality stars?) are partying their youthful, beautiful, tanned lives away. Or maybe you're a couple miles west, on the heart of Sunset Boulevard, outside the pulsing lights of Hyde nightclub. You may not be able to see inside, past the velvet ropes, but the best of the gossip will be splashed across the Internet the next morning anyways.

To be young in Hollywood in the mid-to-late 2000s was, often, to find yourself out at impossibly late hours. The club scene was a hallmark of that era that only be fully described as a heyday. It was a moment, a trend, a thing in every sense of that frustratingly vague word. As Nicole Richie described it in her 2005 book The Truth About Diamonds, "The nightclubs of LA are like soap operas. There's always some bizarre drama that plays out every single night, and everyone in the cast—I mean, everyone—is great looking."
The action (almost) always went down on weeknights, which were considered "celebrity nights" at the hottest locales. That's because, to put it bluntly, stars (or aspiring stars) are the only ones who can manage to go out drinking and dancing until 4 a.m. on what would normally be a work night. It also allowed the young, rich, famous set to avoid the relative nobodies who frequented Hollywood nightlife on the weekends.

There was a group of major players who, give or take a few here and there, were guaranteed to be out. During that golden era of the aughts, it was the Lindsay Lohans and the Paris Hiltons that ruled. But also, the Nicole Richies, the Mischa Bartons, the Orlando Blooms, the Hilary Duffs, the Mischa Bartons, the Lauren Conrads.

And there were, of course, a few very select locations where the debauchery went down. Like Les Deux, in Hollywood proper, which was one of the most popular. Everyone who was everyone partied here, and it became notorious outside of Hollywood thanks to its very savvy product placement on The Hills, and also that very unfortunate scene in which a visibly inebriated Conrad yelled to Heidi Montag "You know what you did!"
Or Guy's Bar, in West Hollywood, which was the site of the now-legendary outing by Hilton, Lohan and one Britney Spears. They all arrived together in an SUV, one of them forgot their underwear, and the tabloids were never the same.

Or Hyde Lounge, which played host to many heavy hitters, and even a young Kim Kardashian. Tara Reid was once turned away at the door.

Or Teddy's, in the Roosevelt Hotel. Orlando Bloom Held his 30th birthday party there in 2007, and, according to Vanity Fair, Lohan and Duff buried the hatchet in their feud over mutual ex Aaron Carter in the bathroom, after Duff saw her other ex Joel Madden arrive with Richie. They were also famously fined for allowing patrons under 21 inside, but why that club specifically was targeted is still a mystery.