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John Terzian Tell our readers about the various clubs that you are behind? Each of h.wood’s venues embraces their own themed concept. A lot of it comes from my art background and knowledge mixed with what is going on in the city or time or where I think it will be headed. For example, Hooray Henry’s was created because I was spending so much time with my UK-based friends and appreciated their style and culture. I created a world around it. I did the same thing with SHOREbar and Bootsy Bellows. Then I work hand-in-hand with my design team as they collaborate with me to make that vision come to life. How did you get into nightlife? I have been an artist my whole life, yet I also had a passion for business. I fell into the business I am currently in by just throwing events in college. I started an events company that is still at USC called 28th Street Entertainment. The reason I was successful was I created spaces for the kids to go to and always loved combining different groups of people. Over the years, I built that into a business and eventually opened my own establishment. I started The h.wood group a year after law school because I had a hard time getting a job working for someone else. Prior to that, I was in with the whole DJ thing before any of this celebrity DJ stuff existed. My late friend Adam Goldstein, DJ AM, was booking a lot of gigs. I helped assist, manage and brand him, and you know I went to law school so I did all the contracts. The idea was always for him to have a hub to play at so we opened LAX. It was a unique club for the time. It is essentially where bottle service was started. It did not exist then, so much that LAPD shut down bottle service for a year. After that, I went on my own and opened a spot called h.wood in 2007. That is when I came together with Markus Molinari and Brian Toll to create The h.wood group. [Photo credits: Robert Terrazas; The h.wood group for John Terzian at SHOREbar]
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