No one mentioned the Autry Museum yet? Adjacent to Griffith Park, near Burbank. Also consider the Petersen Auto Museum if you like cars. It's on Wilshire Blvd in West LA. Check out Philippe's near downtown/Chinatown for some original french dip sandwiches (try the lamb).
Also be aware that the traffic never lets up, it is a 24/7 phenomenon now. Allow plenty of driving time, one crash in the wrong spot and the whole LA basin comes to a stop.
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And Langers Deli....love the number 5!
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Oh man, the other week my wife's plane got in super-late and I was on the 405 at something like 1:30 in the morning. Traffic was still moving pretty fast, but it was crowded even with 6 lanes in one direction. Where are all these people going that time of night? And if I want to miss traffic towards the airport in the morning I have to leave at like 5:30am.Originally Posted by LtDave
IDK, that seems pretty close to violating the 3S ruleEspecially for those of us who can't legally carry.
Perversely trying to make Olong jealous since he lifted my spirits today. Cellphone pic from my meeting room at work just now...
Although we live in the Los Angeles area, we don't get out much except for the Getty Center (405 and Mulholland), the Getty Villa (Malibu), and sometimes the La Brea Tar Pits (mid-Wilshire area). If you're in Griffith Park, the Observatory is interesting. If you enjoy ballroom dancing competition, the Emerald Ball is the first week of May, 2017. It's pretty high level dancing. The Fountain Theater in Hollywood sometimes offers excellent Flamenco dancers. Flamenco will grow on you. It starts with the guitar and spreads to the dancing. That's all I can think of right now. Like most folks, we're kind of stuck in our daily routine and don't normally spin beyond our usual orbit.
What about googling for "Things to do in Los Angeles" or "Los Angeles Tours"? Thing is, the guys who put these tours together are in the business of aggregating the most popular places and then linking them in a way so it's not too far between stops. You may not want to actually take a tourist Tour of course, but the places they visit might be places you'd like. You can use that data to link your own stops together, if you wish.
And if you get as far south as San Diego, please consider the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Its a wonder.
You want to see LA....that is LA. Also.....it is kind of like a neutral country. You are more likely to find more cops there than most stations.IDK, that seems pretty close to violating the 3S rule
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LA Zoo, Travel Town, William S. Hart Ranch, Santa Barbara Mission, Lompoc Mission, NASA tour at Edwards AFB, the aviation museum in Santa Monica, Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica (lots of street performers after dark and weekends), the Unurban coffee house (they have an open mic poetry reading), the Cow's End (coffee house and I think tobaconist) where Washington meets the beach, Martin B. Retting's (one of the last of the famous gun shops in Cali from back in the day)
Gene Autry Museum, Travel Town (trains), LA Zoo and Griffith Park Observatory are all within a couple of miles from each other.
East of the 405 and south of the 10 is a world famous model train shop that's been there since the 40s. It's got some cool layouts with trains constantly running.
There's a great Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica that's just off (if I recall) Santa Monica Blvd. Been there many decades. Awesome food. Can't remember the name. It has valet parking.
There is also a great steak house on Olympic just west of the 405. Again, I don't recall the name, but it's worth finding (yeah, I know. Fat lot of help I am)
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Forgot- there's an old Nike missile site in the Santa Monica Mountains west of Sepulveda Pass. Take Mulholland Drive west from the 405 until it turns into dirt. Park and hike the dirt road about a mile or so to the Nike site. Or, take mountain bikes. It's a fantastic mountain biking area with a bunch of good trails
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"East of the 405 and south of the 10 is a world famous model train shop that's been there since the 40s. It's got some cool layouts with trains constantly running."
This will shock GJM....but, I spent my youth running to that shop from my grandmothers house that was a block away every single weekend for most of my life up till the age of about 15 (a drivers license changes your priorities....and girls). It is Allied Model trains. It is actually at a newer location. It used to be at Pico and Overland. My uncle used to buy stuff there as a kid in the 40's. I still have those trains that were purchased there.
Now as far as Pirates...that is why I love Disneyland. By far my favorite ride. I have been to Disneyland several hundred times and for us SoCal natives...it is a big part of our lives.
These days, when I go to California two things I try to do....be near the ocean, which you can do from Oxnard easily, and the mountains. If it was me....do a day in downtown just to say you did LA, and then I would spend time in Santa Barbara instead of driving all over traffic plagued LA.
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