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| Hello, relax grab a tree and enjoy the glamours life of a celebraty as I show you cool things about LA. |
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| Look we made a friend in Hollywood. |
| Martin and I are always exploring new places. We've been too.... 1. Hollywood and Highland 2. Beverly Hills 3.LACMA 4.Exposition Park 5.Santa Monica Peir 6.Cool theaters like the Alex, Nuart, Crest, Silent Theater, etc. |
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| Back in the 1920s, when movie palaces like the Egyptian reigned supreme, stars like Clara Bow and Fatty Arbuckle held court at the Pig 'n Whistle. It was closed in the 50's and restored in 2001. Very Yummy! |
| American Cinematheque has restored/renovated the historically significant 1922 Egyptian Theatre. |
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| 1. Hollywood and Highland. We ate at the famous Pig 'n Whistle, walked into the Roosevelt Hotel, stolled along Hollywood taking pics and saw a show at the Knitting Factory. |
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| The El Capitan began as a live theatre in 1926. It was a "legitimate" theatre until 1942, when it became the Paramount movie theatre. It was the site of the world premiere of "Citizen Kane." Now it is owned by Disney. |
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| The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was founded in 1927. The hotel's "Blossom Room" hosted the first-ever Academy Awards ceremony, on May 19, 1929. That was also the shortest Oscar ceremony ever, lasting just five minutes, as Douglas Fairbanks and Al Jolson helped give away 13 statuettes. |
| The famous Capitol Records building on Vine Street just north of Hollywood Boulevard was built in 1956. It is a recording studio not open to the public, but its unique circular design looks like a stack of 7-inch vinyl records. |
| mom and I saw Pirates of the Carribean here. Click Here. |
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| 2. Martin and I went to Beverly Hills to see what the fuss was about. The food is good, but the whole area is out of our price range. But worth the trip if you have never been and you have someone elses credit card. |
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| If in Beverly Hills you have to go to Rodeo Drive. Pretty Woman film site. It's kinda crazy how many places in LA are in movies, songs and books. Everywhere you go, you've heard of it from somewhere. "Beverly Hills.... that's where I want to be..." -Weezer song |
| While there are lots of mansions in Beverly Hills there is also The Witch House. It's really cool. We drove by here. Looks like something from The Grim Brothers huh! "The Witch's House," this bizarre, whimsical creation was built in 1921 for a movie studio in Culver City. It was used in several silent films, and then moved to this pleasant residential neighborhood in Beverly Hills in 1926, where it is now a private home." |
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| 3. Martin and I, being the huge dorks that we are have been to multiple museums in LA. Like LACMA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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| Canaletto's Piazza San Marco Looking South and West, 1763 |
| The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum home of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. |
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| 4. Exposition Park is as close to the Smithsonian on the DC Mall as we can get. It is the home of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the California Science Center and Imax Theater, African-American Museum, Natural History Museum and Rose Garden. |
| Me chillin on an Olympic bench. |
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| We went to The California Science Center to see the Star Wars exibit that had props and costumes. We learned that Luke's landspeeder was the sound of Los Angeles freeway traffic recorded through a vacuum cleaner tube, created by Ben Burtt. |
| I asked the Star Wars guys to take Martin hostage. |
| This is the entrance to the Museum. And if you saw an Imax film like we did you got to enter from the top of the ramp in the golden balls. I really like the entrance and want to put one up in front of my apt. |
| The air and space part of the museum was the size of one exibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Plus we had to wait in line behind all these kids to take this picture. We also went to the African-American Museum, and learned all about Tom Bradley, who the international terminal of LAX is named after. |
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| Pig 'n Whistle |
| Roosevelt Hotel |
| Scaramouche and Elizabeth, c. 1765 |
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| They also have this huge Rose Garden at the Park with like 200 different roses. |
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| The Natural History Museum is pretty decent. They have some really cool exhibits. We learned about some of California's history. We also saw a really nifty exhibit in the pavillion outside. It was the Spider Pavillion! It had HUGE non venomous spiders, like the Golden Silk and the Banned Garden. The spiders were all just hanging out in their webs right above our heads and next to us in the bushes. Ok maybe I was a bit nervous of getting spiders in my hair. |
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| Spider above my head. |
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| This copper still was used to make Brandy at San Gabriel Mission. Mumm yummy! |
| Martin learning about boats. |
| This Concord Stagecoach was built about 1865. It was brough to Southern California and used for local mail and passenger service. |
| Walt Disney built and used this Animation Station in LA 1923. It was used to film the first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. |
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| Me in front of the pier. |
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| 5. Martin and I have gone to the Santa Monica Pier on many occassions. It's not far from where we live and it's night next to work. The Pier was opened on Septeber 9, 1909. |
| Under the pier and across the way at night. |
| The resturant at the end of the pier. |
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| Riding the Ferris Wheel on the Pier, Mom got a little scared! |
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| Lammele Santa Monica 4 on the promonade where we saw Bottle Shock. |
| Nuart theater that shows cult films and independant shows. |
| Century City AMC where we saw Pirates 3. |
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| 6. One of the main reasons we moved to LA was for the film. Here are just some of the theaters we've been too. |
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| Silent Movie Theater Built in 1942 by John and Dorothy Hampton, The Silent Movie Theatre ran for decades as the only fully functioning silent movie theatre in the country. |
| The Crest Theater has the coolest old theater interior. |
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