Scenic Spots In Los Angeles

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more ocean view restraunts in OC

Cannons
http://www.cannonsrestaurant.com/

chart house dana point
http://chart-house.com/

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Originally Posted by 112597Jorge

more ocean view restraunts in OC

Cannons
http://www.cannonsrestaurant.com/

chart house dana point
http://chart-house.com/

Thanks!

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Claremont Hills Wilderness Park

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-Whittier - 33.99787,-118.03679

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SkyRose Chapel at Rose Hills (34.0108,-118.0219)
Buddhist Memorial Columbarium (34.0028,-118.0224)
Visitation ends at approximately 5:00 p.m.

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-Scholl Canyon Golf Course in Glendale
3800 East Glenoaks Blvd, Glendale, CA 91206
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Golf at Los Angeles by Lucas Janin, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Los Angeles Times

Griffith Park was the most popular film location again in 2012
The city-owned park has been a perennial favorite for location scouts. Other sites in the top 10 include Point Dume in Malibu and the 6th Street Bridge near downtown L.A.
By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
6:00 PM PST, January 1, 2013

Griffith Park, Point Dume, the 6th Street Bridge near downtown L.A. and a former community hospital in Boyle Heights reputed to be haunted ranked among the most popular film locations in 2012, according to a new survey.

Eight of the top 10 sites for shoots of movies, TV shows, commercials and music videos on city and county streets are publicly owned, the annual survey conducted for the Los Angeles Times by FilmL.A. Inc. found.

"We continue to see a considerable amount of filming that happens on government-owned properties or facilities, from beaches and parks, to public schools and libraries," said Phil Sokoloski, spokesman for FilmL.A., which handles film permits. "The list underscores the importance of having a good working relationship between the film industry and local government authorities."

Griffith Park was again the busiest site for location filming last year. The most popular canyon area, known as the Bird Sanctuary, generated 409 production days — 63 more than in 2011 — including shoots for the TV crime dramas "Southland" and "Sons of Anarchy." (One production day is defined as a crew's permission to film at a single location in a 24-hour period.)

Spanning more than 4,210 acres between the hills of Los Feliz and Burbank, the city-owned park has been a perennial favorite for location scouts because of its cedar grove, mountain roads and iconic observatory, famously portrayed in the James Dean classic "Rebel Without a Cause."

Point Dume State Beach on the Malibu coast was the second busiest locale with 163 production days, including shoots for the TV series "Modern Family" and auto commercials for Dodge, Fiat, Subaru and Carmax, among others.

The beach has a long cinematic tradition. Its cliffs and rocky shore provided a backdrop for movies such as 1968's "Planet of the Apes" and the Coen brothers' 1991 drama "Barton Fink." Nonetheless, it was the first time since the survey began three years ago that Point Dume ranked among the top 10 locations.

Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey and Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades also had a busy year, ranking third and eighth respectively in production days. Those beaches drew the television shows "NCIS: Los Angeles," "90210," "Parenthood" and "The Office," according to the FilmL.A. data. Venice Beach, which ranked second last year, fell to seventh this year.

Some of the increased beach activity may be related to steps Los Angeles County took early in 2012 to ease some restrictions on filming on county beaches, such as allowing the use of sand digging and fireworks.

The 6th Street Bridge near downtown Los Angeles landed in fifth place. Over the decades scores of commercials, music videos (including one recently for the band Green Day) and movies have been shot on or underneath the bridge, including the Batman sequel "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Seven Psychopaths," a crime comedy starring Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Colin Farrell.

Producers from "Seven Psychopaths" used the bridge in a nighttime car scene.

"Cinematographers love it because you get the downtown background, you get the lights and you get that nice long driving shot. It's a great bridge," said Robert Foulkes, the "Psychopaths" location manager.

Another popular spot last year was the former Linda Vista Community Hospital in Boyle Heights. The location, long rumored to be haunted, has played host over the years to such shows as "ER" and the Travel Channel's "Ghost Stories," as well as the HBO series "True Blood" and the crime drama "Criminal Minds."

Television shows led by "Private Practice," "The Client List," "NCIS: Los Angeles" and "Southland" generated the most production days in 2012, FilmL.A.'s data show. Among movies, the features "Bad Words," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Paranormal Activity 4" had the most location filming in Los Angeles.

Read More: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1023327.story

The LA Times has compiled the list:

1. Griffith Park (its Bird Sanctuary area, part of which just reopened for the first time since the 2007 Griffith Park fire, saw the most filming days)
2. Point Dume State Beach in Malibu (its first time in the top 10 in the three years since the list has been going)
3. Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey
4. Linda Vista Community Hospital, which is A) spooky as hell and B) getting a big redevelopment
5. The Sixth Street Bridge, which is set to be knocked down (it has concrete cancer) and replaced with a swoopy HNTB design
6. Elysian Park
7. Venice Beach
8. Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades
9. Herald-Examiner Building, which has been waiting and waiting on a redevelopment
10. LA County and USC Medical Center

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Originally Posted by Metro - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority - The Source

This photo explains why Metro is building the Westside/Purple Line Extension
Posted January 14, 2013 by Steve Hymon

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Westwood & Century City by Metro - Los Angeles, on Flickr
Steve Hymon took this photo Sunday afternoon from the Backbone Trail above the Pacific Palisades.

Read More: http://thesource.metro.net/2013/01/1...ine-extension/

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-Cherry Canyon Trails - Flint Canyon Trail
(34.16856,-118.21982) Downtown LA + Downtown Glendale + SR-2 / SR-134 Interchange

Originally Posted by Googiesque

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164001

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-Queensway Bridge (Downtown Long Beach)
33.7572,-118.19798

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Long Beach Harbor Panoramic by airbutchie, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Los Angeles Times

The very nature of the city
Making a life in Los Angeles is about learning to find the strange, unexpected beauty amid the ugliness, about watching from newly transformed Debs Park as a hawk rides thermals over a vast expanse of freeway.
By Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times
4:32 AM PST, February 4, 2013

Before I took my father on a hike in Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, the little known wilderness area northeast of downtown Los Angeles, I made sure to warn him.

You're not going to think it's beautiful, I told him. In fact, you might hate it.

My father lives in Portland, Ore., that green land of enlightened planning. More than once during visits here, usually while we are parked in a sea of brake lights and exhaust on the freeway, he turns to me and demands: "Why do you live here?"

I never had a satisfactory answer for him, and I certainly was not expecting a walk in Debs to convince him of my adopted city's charms. The 320 acres of steep trails, oak trees and scraggly grass rising along the 110 Freeway has long been the neglected wild child of the Los Angeles city park system. When my dogs and I first began venturing there a decade ago, I found it not just ugly, but downright frightening, even in the company of a pit bull. The bushes in the lower part were flecked with trash, needles and other, more disgusting, signs of illicit rendezvous. On the upper trails, coyotes sometimes stopped to stare with brazen eyes.

Still, my dogs needed to run, and this park was the nearest to my house. On a recent visit my father came too. He looked skeptical when I led him up a steep, rutted dirt trail and around a locked gate — the way to enter the park on its less-used north side. We headed up. My father didn't comment on the roar of cars echoing up from the freeway or the high weeds; he didn't need to, his face said it all.

But when we reached the top, a remarkable sight met us. The view was particularly glorious on this day: the towers of downtown glimmering against the blue sky and green hills, and past them, the cranes at the Port of Los Angeles like a scattered erector set.

It was the foreground that was so unexpected, though: People, lots of them, walking, hiking, picnicking. There was less trash, fewer weeds, and more native plants, with delicate flowers.

We headed farther into the park, passing families with small children visiting the park's Audubon Center, an urban nature center that opened its doors in 2003. There were signs for fun runs and upcoming cleanups. There was even a very Portland touch: a little blue container that could hold plastic bags, for people to pick up after their dogs.

Debs Park was created nearly 50 years ago, largely thanks to the efforts of Los Angeles County Supervisor and Councilman Ernest E. Debs, who had a wily ability to convince developers to set aside open space as a condition for permits to build.

But though it existed on maps, in real life, it didn't look much like a park. By 1994, when it reverted from the county to the city, much of Debs was surrounded by a forbidding chain-link fence, and it was seen as a good place to go if you wanted to get mugged, or worse.

Enter Mike Hernandez, then a Los Angeles city councilman, who grew up in the shadow of the park. He had been to the Santa Monica Mountains as a child, and remembers thinking there was no reason there shouldn't be a park like that closer to home. He helped direct millions in bond money to fix up Debs.

Then, in 2001, Hernandez and his successor, Councilman Ed Reyes, worked with the Audubon Society to bring the nature center to the park. It turned out that in addition to all the people doing drugs and carrying out other illicit activities in the park, there were also more than 140 species of birds living there, or dropping by, including many who stop in the black walnut groves on their migrations.

There was just one problem: Many people were still afraid to come.

Change came bit by bit.

The Audubon Center began hosting field trips and summer camps for children, handing out free binoculars and nature guides for weekend visitors. Volunteer groups and nonprofits, including Tree People and local residents, sponsored park cleanups and fun runs and tree plantings that drew more people into the park.

A few years ago, the center also began sponsoring a women's fitness hike, with free child care. Around that time, Audubon Center Director Jeff Chapman said, observers began reporting more frequent sightings of a once rare species: women walking by themselves.

Hernandez, who left office in 2001 but still works for the city, said he is thrilled at what's happened, but he wants more. He'd like to see Debs Park connected to other open spaces on the Eastside, including Heritage Square and the Southwest Museum, and to turn it into a park almost as grand as Griffith Park, "the big park by the Arroyo," he says he would call it.

I knew none of this history that day I stood at the top of the ridge with my father. But as a pair of red-tailed hawks spiraled out of the sky right in front of us, my father nodded at me, as though to signal that he was starting to understand: Making a life in Los Angeles is about learning to look past the relentless, grim cement that at first impression seems to cover every surface. It's about training yourself to find the strange, unexpected beauty amid the ugliness, like the sight of a hawk riding thermals over a vast expanse of freeway, or the call of a black phoebe that you can make out just above the thrum of traffic.

And bit by bit, you start to build your own way of seeing and loving the city. And sometimes, if you're lucky, a place like Debs Park will transform, and the moment you notice it, it will feel, just for a minute, like this great, horrible city is starting to love you back.

Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...0,793168.story
Read More: http://www.modernhiker.com/2012/05/0...regional-park/

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-Ernest E. Debs Regional Park(34.09915,-118.19956 & 34.09463,-118.19664)
Downtown LA

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/attgrl/6287158533/

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-Ocean Overlook at Charmlee Wilderness Park (34.04738,-118.8793)
Malibu

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristinabliss/5701492914/


-Encinal Canyon Rd in Malibu (Malibu)
34.04396,-118.87589

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitto1974/3785671733/

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Originally Posted by saiholmes

Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...0,793168.story
Read More: http://www.modernhiker.com/2012/05/0...regional-park/

Yes, and we all know that Portland has no traffic. Who are these people?

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Originally Posted by klamedia

Yes, and we all know that Portland has no traffic. Who are these people?

just an article from LA Times.

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-Zuma Ridge (34.03883,-118.8226)
Malibu

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-Azusa Peak via Garcia Trail (34.15605,-117.88827)


http://danshikingblog.blogspot.com/2...ke-1-1-11.html

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-Glenoaks Canyon (34.1463,-118.2105)
Downtown Los Angeles & Downtown Glendale

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Green mountain by Lucas Janin | www.lucasjanin.com, on Flickr

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-Betty B. Dearing Trail (34.1331,-118.4039)
San Fernando Valley and Universal City

[klamedia]

Originally Posted by saiholmes

-Glenoaks Canyon (34.1463,-118.2105)
Downtown Los Angeles & Downtown Glendale

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Green mountain by Lucas Janin | www.lucasjanin.com, on Flickr

Where's Downtown Glendale?