Now in her eighties, Ronnie Haran lives in Montecito, surrounded by her dogs and an eye-popping collection of California pottery, Hawaiian shirts, and rock and roll relics. She's no longer center stage, but her influence still echoes in every gritty guitar solo, every smoky stage, every crowd-surfing anthem.

Her legacy lives on in the Whisky a Go Go itself, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the first-ever venue to receive that honor. The club may bear Elmer Valentine's name in the record books, but it was Ronnie Haran who turned it into the crucible of a cultural revolution.

Archivists are finally combing through her trove of photos, piecing together the untold story of a woman who was always ahead of the flashbulbs, shaping the stories while staying just out of the frame.