The Ultimate LA Tour for Outsiders

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Midcity is good enough for me.
1. MacArthur Park



metro station art

2. Loyola Law School

3. LAnger's Deli; NY Times has called this the best pastrami in the US.


4. Grier Musser Museum antique museum, displays change with seasons and holidays

5. Koreatown



6. Bob Baker Marionette theater

7. Wilshire Ebell theater

8. House of Davids

9. Echo Park


10. Lotus Festival




11. Angeles temple

12. Carrol Ave. Victorians Angelino Heights


13. Saint Sophia Cathedral


14. Poppa Christo's

15. Remains of Brown Derby

16. Western Ave. KFC.

17. Wilshire boulevard temple

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Museum square/Fairfax/Miracle Mile
1. Hancock Park includes LACMA and La brea Tar Pits (see big 20)


2. Petersen Automotive Museum



3. Architecture and Design Museum

4. Craft and folk art Museum

5. Holocaust Museum

6. Pan Pacific Field House

7. Los Angeles Holocaust memorial Pan Pacific Park

8. Farmer's Market




9. Grove


10. CBS Television City; not open for tours but you can get tickets to attend filmings of shows.

11. FAirfax Blvd.



12. Little Ethiopia




13. Silent Movie theater

14. Melrose Ave.





15. Art at Cedars Sinai Hospital; They actually hire a curator.




16. Korean Cultural Center


17. Library Academy of MOtion Picture Arts and Sciences

18. Pico-Robertson area

this is Stephen Spielberg's mother's restaurant.

19. Museum of Tolerance



20. Groundlings theater first home of Will Ferrell, pee wee herman, phil hartman, jon lovitz, elvira, chris farley and half of the SNL alumni.

21. John Wayne equestrian statue

22. Saint Elmo's village

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Greater Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Atwater
1. Thai town




2. Little Armenia




3. Barnsdale Park



4. Hollyhock House



5. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

6. Moletown; movie lighting and hollywood memorabilia

7. Kermit as Charlie Chaplin statue on Chaplin's old studio, now used by the Henson company

8. Santa Monica Blvd. Theater District



9. Amoeba records


10. Catalina's Bar and Grill: great jazz!


11. Crossroads of the World


12. Hollywood High

13. Mashti Malones home of Persian style ice cream


14. Hollywood Forever final home of the stars and outdoor movies too!






15. Paramount Studios has had tours in the past, sometimes open to the public for special events.

16. Guiness Book of Records Museum

17. L. Ron Hubbard Life exhibit/Scientology Museum

18. Fredrick's of Hollywood has moved from its classic store across the street. The underwear museum is currently closed.


19. Hollywood Bowl Museum

20. Lake Hollywood located halfway between Hollywood blvd. and Universal city.

21. Mullholland Drive Overlooks


22. Ford ampitheater/Pilgrimage Theater

23. American Film Institute Conservatory

24. Neutra VDL Research House II

25. Neutra Place Silver Lake: Greatest concentration of Neutra homes in the world




26. Silver Lake

27. Tam O' Shanter restaurant

28.Hollywood and Vine Metro stop



29. Forrest Ackermann Science fiction collection. This is a private collection of science fiction and movie memorabilia owned by Mr. Ackerman who was the editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland. He opens his collection to the public on Saturday mornings. Call 1-800-MOONFAN for reservations.


30. Lovell House

31. Ennis House

33. Chemosphere House

34. Case study House 22

35. Shakespeare bridge Los Feliz

36. Beechwood village and stairs
37. Freeman House Frank Llyod Wright and Rudolf Schindler


38. House of the Seven Dwarfs Los Feliz

39. Sowden House Los Feliz

40. Moorcroft/Charlie Chaplin-Mary Astor home

41. Storer house hollywood;Frank Lloyd Wright


42. KCET studios; former Monogram Pictures; I believe tours are currently on hold.

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West side:
Westwood, Brentwood, Bel Air, Holmby, West LA
1. Westwood Village



2. Hammer Museum


3. UCLA


4. Royce Hall

5. Pauley Pavillion

6. UCLA Sculpture Garden



7. Mattias Botanical Garden

8. The Getty see top twenty

9. Skirball museum


10. Mount Saint Mary's college

11. University of Judaism


12. Hotel Bel Air


13. Hannah Carter Japanese garden; you have to make reservations before you show up, but its worth it. You can make reservations on line. http://www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu/



14. Fredrick Weismann Foundation; Another place you have to make reservations. Space is limited. Private modern art museum in Holmby hills mansion.http://www.weismanfoundation.org/


15. Playboy Mansion; generally closed to the public but frequently open for charitable or other fundraising events.


16. Little Tehran




17. Century City

18. UCLA Tennis center

19. Fowler Museum



20. Wadsworth National Cemetery


21. Wadsworth VA chapel.

22. Sawtelle Blvd/Little japan


23. Westwood Memorial Park



24. Mormon Temple

25. Tail of the Pup; to be moved to Westwood village, currently out of service.

26. Jackie Robinson stadium on grounds of Wadsworth VA.

27. Gabrielino/Tongva Springs and interpretive center on the grounds of University High




Pacific pallisades
1. Will Rogers Home




2. Eames House


3. Getty Villa
4. Self Realization Fellowship and Lake Shrine




Santa Monica
1. Santa Monica Pier




2. Pallisades Park

3. Santa Monica Promenade


4. Bergamot Station and Santa Monica Museum of Art


5. Beach and Boardwalk

6. Angel's Attic Doll and miniature museum


7. Santa Monica Farmers' Market


8. Main Street
Edgemar Market/Frank Gehry

Chait Day building/Frank Gehry again

ballerina clown



9. Hump restaurant at the Santa Monica Airport; eat sushi and watch the planes take off.

10. California Heritage Museum

11. Chain reaction

12. Museum of Flying (currently being moved).


13. The Wave Wilshire Blvd.

14. Eames office

15. UCLA Ocean discovery center


16. Dragon fountain

17. Beach tool

18. The western end of route 66 in Palisades park

19. statue of Santa Monica


Venice




Marina Del Rey




Ballona Wetlands



Playa del Rey



Dockweiler Beach only place for bonfires on the beach


Beverly Hills
1. Rodeo Drive Shops

Frank Lloyd Wright designed minimall


2. Museum of Television and Radio/Richard Meier

3. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

4. Witches' house

5. Franklin canyon nature center in the hills above Beverly Hills

6. Beverly Hills Trolley

7. Virginia Robinson Gardens; Another county facility that you have to make reservations:
http://www.robinson-gardens.com/

8. Lawn people on Sunset; THese are statues!



West Hollywood
1. Sunset strip






2. Design district

3. Boy's town

4. Schindler house and foundation


Culver City
1. Sony Studios Tour

2. Motion Picture Walk of Fame


3. Museum of Jurassic Technology



4. Al Jolson Mausoleum/Hillside cemetary


5. Jazz Bakery

6. Kirk Douglas Theater




Malibu
1. Surfrider beach

2. Malibu Lagoon


3. Adamson house

4. Malibu Creek State Park


5. Ramirez Canyon Park; Barbra Striesand estate.


6. Malibu Hindu temple



Topanga Canyon


1. Theatricum Botanicum


2. Inn of the Seventh Ray

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San Fernando Valley, less to see here when you get away from the studios, but still has some attractions.
1. San Fernando Mission


2. NOHO Arts district





3. Emmy Plaza and Television Hall of Fame



4. Great Wall of Los Angeles, world's longest mural



5. Giant Hand Car Wash Studio City

6. San Sylmar/Nethercutt collecton



7. Orcutt ranch

8. The Spooky House (seasonal) Northridge


9. Pierce college demonstration farm



10. Old Trappers Ranch/ Pierce college; more folk art
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11. Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills




12. Tillman Japanese garden



13. Garden of the Gods Park

14. Wat Thai Buddist temple.


15. Leonis Adobe


16. Campo de cahuenga. site of treaty ceding American southwest to the US.

17. Onion church North hills

18. Fleetwood center Tarzana

19. Los Encinos State Park



20. Bolton Hall Museum Sunland Tujunga

21. Andreas Pico Adobe



22. CAnoga Mission Gallery

23. The Poodle North Hills

24. The Cascades bringing water from the north.

25. McGroaty Home Tujunga

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South Central, Inglewood, Compton, Hawthorne, Carson
1. Watt's Art Center



2. Watts Towers


3. Dunbar Hotel
4. Leimert park




5. Museum in Black


6. Kenneth Hahn State recreation area


7. Western Museum of Flight, Hawthorne Airport moving to torrance, see south bay section.
8. Goodyear Blimp Carson

9. Home depot center




10. Centinela Adobe. Birthplace of Inglewood




11. Randy's doughnuts

12. Kindle's doughnuts

13. Fabulous Forum home of the showtime Laker teams, currently used as a church.

14. Hollywood park racetrack

15. Holy Cross Cemetery Inglewood


16. Hollywood Park Casino

17. Plaza de Mexico Lynwood



18. Busby Berkeley Estate; West Adams

19. Farmer's restaurant, Inglewood, classic Googie

20. Cockins House; West Adams

21. Dominguez Adobe; Compton

18. Saint francis Hospital Lynwood

19. Beach Boys Monument Hawthorne

20. African American Firefighters Museum

21. International Printing Museum Carson

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Harbor/San Pedro/Wilmington
1. Cruise terminal

2. Vincent Thomas Bridge


3. Ports O' Call village



4. Red Car Line

5. Los Angeles Maritime MUseum



6. Tall ships

7. Cabrillo Aquarium




8. Point Fermin lighthouse

9. Fort MacArthur Batteries

10. Marine mammal care center


11. Korean Peace Bell

12. Warner Grand theater

13. Drum barracks Civil War Museum





14. Banning residence and museum


15. Sportfishing

16. Whale watching

17. Harbor cruises

18. SS Lane Victory

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East side/Boyle heights/ East LA
1. Mariachi Square; you can rent a band here.



2. Hollenbeck Park

3. Murals at Estrada Courts






4. Lincoln Park



5. El Tepayac cafe home of the Hollenbeck burrito


6. Breed Street Synagogue


7. Los Angeles river bridges
8. Whittier Blvd. East LA.

9. El Mercado de Los Angeles


10. Vincent Price gallery at East LA City College
11. Farmer John Murals/Vernon



12. Parque de Mexico



13. Saint Lucy's Catholic Church

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Burbank and Glendale

Burbank
1. Warner Studio tour (my personal favorite of all the tours.)




2. NBC studios


3. The flying saucer crash

4. Disney studios, you can only view from the outside though.



5. Starlight bowl

6. F 104 on a stick


Glendale
1. Forest Lawn





2. Alex theater

3. Brand library

[godblessbotox]

what is that plane in the alex theater picture?

i thought that was just some crazy military project plane. not an actual product

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Originally Posted by godblessbotox

what is that plane in the alex theater picture?

i thought that was just some crazy military project plane. not an actual product

I believe that is a Northorp flying wing probably a YB-49 but not sure, manufactured right here in southern California. There is a flying wing in flying condition at the Planes of Fame Museum In Chino. I will try to include it when I get to the Inland Empire thread.

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South Bay and Airport

LAX
1. Theme Building ( with Paul Williams, the architect)

Encounter restaurant inside

2. Welcome Light columns


3. Flight path Airport Museum

4. Proud Bird Restaurant




El Segundo
1. El Segundo Music Hall classic movies accompanied by live music from the mighty Wurlitzer.



Hermosa Beach
1. Pier Avenue clubs




Redondo Beach
1. Redondo beach pier and King Harbor


2. Seaside lagoon

3. Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center


Manhattan Beach

1.Manhattan beach pier

2. Sand dune park


Palos verdes
1. Tide pools

2. Wayfarer's chapel

3. Trump National golf club open to the public if you've got the money

4. South Coast Botaic Garden


Torrance
1. Alpine Village



2. Western Museum of Flight (moving from Hawthorne)should be open by summer at Torrance airport location.


3. Madrona Marsh

visitor center


Lomita
1. Lomita Railroad Museum



Gardena
1. Gardina Casinos

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Long Beach

1. Aquarium of the Pacific


2. Long Beach Grand Prix

3. Pine Avenue Entertainment district

free bus service all around long beach is a bonus

4. Queen Mary

5. Scorpion Russian Sub

6. Japanese Garden Long Beach State

7. Walter Pyramid

8. Gondola Rides Naples

9. Belmont Shores
10. Long Beach Arena

11. Water Taxis

12. Museum of LAtin American Art

13. Long Beach Museum of Art

14. Shoreline village

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South east county
Downey
1. Oldest operating McDonald's


2. Downey Museum of Art


Cerritos
1. Cerritos performing art center



Artesia
1. Little India







MOntebello
1. Barnyard Zoo


Santa Fe Springs
1. Heritage Park



Whittier
1. Pio Pico State Park

2. Whittier historical society


Norwalk
1. Giant Bee


Bell Gardens and Hawaiian Gardens
1. Casinos

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Simi, Moorpark, Filmore, and Calabasas;

Simi Valley
1. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

air force one



2. Grandma Prisbry's bottle village





Calabasas
1. Santa Monica Mountains National recreation area
balanced rock at circle X ranch

2. Paramount Movie Ranch




Newbury Park
1. Stagecoach Inn


Moorpark and Fillmore
1. Filmore and Western Railroad and interactive Mystery dinner theater.

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If anyone is following this, let me know how I am doing. Am I leaving anything out? Any other comments? Its amazing how many points of interest there are in the LA area.

[klamedia]

I suppose next you'll be listing all of the 7-11's and parking garages in the city. I love the dedication to the thread by you but why list "Camarillo Mall"? It looks like Anyplace, Texas.

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Originally Posted by klamedia

I suppose next you'll be listing all of the 7-11's and parking garages in the city. I love the dedication to the thread by you but why list "Camarillo Mall"? It looks like Anyplace, Texas.

Some folks like outlet malls. If you know of any really interesting 7-11's though, let me know. I'll put them up. I admit I'm a little obsessive, but it has been my experience that very few folks know the LA area as a whole. I have never met anyone who knows its various sites as well as I do, (mainly because I have lived here 35 years and have worked all over the county). I hope you and some of the others have found some new places to explore. At any rate, I am seeing the end of the thread and will probably be done by the beginning of next week.

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Santa Clarita and the Grapevine

Santa Clarita
1. Magic Mountain



2. Wm. S. Hart ranch


3. Cowboy Festival

4.Vasquez Rocks state park

5. Mentryville ghost town, former oil town


6. Walk of Western Stars Newhall
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Fort Tejon

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Antelope Valley

Devils Punchbowl


California Poppy Preserve, Antelope valley


Shambala animal preserve




Edwards Air Force Base/ space shuttle landing site