Griffith Observatory Griffith Park is a 4,000 acre wilderness park in the city of Los Angeles, originally donated to the city by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith in 1896 to avoid paying taxes on it. He probably had no idea how much his gift would be enjoyed. Griffith Park is essentially a playground for more than […]
Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, a strip that runs west towards West Hollywood, is rather seedy and grungy, home to drug dealers and prostitutes. There aren’t many attractions in this area of Hollywood. Its only appeal stems from its distinction of being home to Hollywood’s last remaining studio as well as the graveyard of many […]
Hollywood Sign Hollywood Hills is the best known urban mountains in the U.S., an area once populated by all the celebrities and movie stars enjoying the views of the city from its heights. The area parallels Hollywood at the eastern region of the Santa Monica Mountains. The canyons and slopes of the hills overlook the […]
Kareem and I II Hollywood was at one time the “glitter and glamour capital of the world”. Sadly, the city has withered ungracefully with age, falling victim to a changing industry and abandoned by the business that made it famous around the world. All but one of the movie studios has left and nothing exciting […]
The Standard Sunset Boulevard is an area that runs through Hollywood and into West Hollywood where its name changes to Sunset Strip. In the 1920s and 30s, the strip was home to three major studios: Columbia, Warner Bros, and William Fox Studios, all of them located within blocks of each other. The only studio building […]
Los Angeles is known to be the city of fashion, Hollywood and dreams. It is the archetypal twenty-first century American city serving its tourist with a number of attractions as well as activities that can be merely found in the city. The restaurants as well as hotels and also the activities of Los Angeles are […]
WACKO Silver Lake is worth visiting for its movieland heritage, although it has lost much of its appeal in this regard over the years with the development of more modern architecture. The district started out as a man-made reservoir built in 1907. Shortly afterwards, a neighborhood developed around it, and the fine homes built there […]