Westside
and Beverly Hills No visit to Los Angeles is
complete without a drive through Beverly Hills tree-lined streets.
Beverly Hill Hotel is rightfully historic, as is the Church of the
Good Shepard. West Hollywood has a different kind of flair. This is
where the Sunset Strip resides. Westside’s Brentwood is home to the
prestigious Getty Center and Westwood is home to UCLA. Century City
hosts 20th Century Fox studios, as well as the Shubert
Theatre. Hollywood Hollywood’s
iconic Walk of Fame
and Grauman’s Chinese Theater remain must-visits. Other interesting
sites for the film-history buff include the Roosevelt Hotel and
Hollywood Boulevard, and the Academy Awards play out in the Kodak
Theater. Also drop by Museum Row and its twelve museums, of which the
La Brea Tar Pits is most famous. And beautiful Griffith Park dwarfs
Central Park and serves as the backdrop to both the LA Zoo and the
Griffith Observatory. Downtown Downtown
Los
Angeles is home to Walt Disney Concert Hall the massive Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels, the third largest cathedral in the world. The
Silver Lake community is live with music and art, Exposition Park is a
major LA sports center as well as home to a number of museums.
San Fernando
Valley The “Valley” has been
immortalized as the home base of “Valley Girls,” but it’s also home to
many famous studios - Universal Studios Hollywood, NBC, and Warner
Brothers, for example, reside in Burbank. CityWalk is a fun stop for
the shopper and Glendale’s Forest Lawn Cemetery is the post-mortem
residence of
many movie stars. Pasadena Pasadena
is most famous
for the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rosebowl. Old Town is an
excellent pedestrian mall and CalTech is home to the famous Jet
Propulsion Laboratory that birthed the space program. City Hall is
worth a look for its architecture. |
