4 Bus from a 94 Bus The Pershing Square district is centered around Los Angeles’ oldest park, Pershing Square, which is sandwiched between Broadway and Bunker Hill. It was constructed in 1866 and renamed in 1918 after the WWI general. The park has deteriorated to such a state that it seems irreversible even with efforts […]
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 […]
the Smell alley Skid Row in Downtown LA is the congregation of the city’s homeless population, which numbers somewhere around 100,000. It is located south of Little Tokyo stretching past Seventh Street. Its most seediest section is the intersection between San Pedro and Fifth Street, nicknamed the “Nickel”. This part of LA is best avoided […]
Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles started out as an elegant residential neighborhood for the middle and upper class in the 1870s, full of Victorian mansions that were connected by a funicular railroad to the business district on Spring Street. As the decades passed, residents moved out to the suburbs and Bunker Hill deteriorated slowly […]
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 […]
Baldwin Hills or Baldwin Village is a district in South Central LA that is located above Crenshaw and Leimert Park. It is an upper-middle class district resided mostly by African Americans,[1] and often nicknamed the “African American Beverly Hills” or “Black Beverly Hills”. It is home to many pro athletes, entrepreneurs, TV and movie stars, […]
UCLA vs Notre Dame Westwood is an LA district that is west of Beverly Hills and Century City, east of West Los Angeles and Brentwood, and north of Rancho Park branching off of Wilshire Boulevard. Westwood is one of the wealthier areas of the city, known as a movie-going district for its many vintage movie […]
highland park xmas Highland Park is a district in the eastern section of Los Angeles about a mile from Elysian Park, north of downtown, and beside the Pasadena Freeway. It is one of LA’s oldest districts and the first to be annexed by the city in 1895.[1] Highland Park is noted for its scenery, architecture, […]
Hancock Park is a neighborhood west of Downtown along Wilshire Boulevard that was developed in the 1920s as an elite suburb of LA. Its well-preserved revival architecture makes Hancock Park quite charming to visit. You’ll find many lovely houses in the mock-Tudor style.[1] Getty HouseThe Getty House is one of the main highlights of the […]
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 […]