Issue Summer 2009
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About the Cover:
Meet me at 3rd and Fairfax. For many millions of
visitors - and several generations of Angelenos - this simple direction
has meant a trip to one of the city’s most famous and lively landmarks,
the Farmers Market. The Farmers Market is celebrating its 75th
Anniversary this year, and expects to play host to around 3,000,000
visitors - quite an achievement for a site that started life as a dairy
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Vintage Jewels
Two vintage jewels in Hollywood’s cultural treasure trove are the Hollywood Bowl and the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.
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Grande Dames of Hollywood
Starlets and divas have called Hollywood home since the movies first called Action! Some of those early legends of the silver screen are long gone, but Grande Dames with names like Villa Carlotta, The ...
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The Hollywood Palladium
On October 15, nearly sixty eight years to the day that the Hollywood Palladium ushered Los Angeles into the swing era with a grand opening performance of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring a young ...
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Getting Around in Hollywood
Getting around Hollywood no longer has to involve looking for a parking spot or inching along Hollywood Boulevard. As local residents and incoming tourists become more familiar with the convenience of ...
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Hollywood: Mural Capital of Los Angeles
Hollywood enjoys an array of murals that provide diversion to the urban streetscape. Eloy Torrez “Legends of Cinema” graces the front of Hollywood High’s Auditorium on Highland Ave. Last year with the ...
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Pinks, Formosa Cafe, Musso & Frank Anniversaries
It's perhaps the very definition of a classic Hollywood experience: a coctail at the Formosa Cafe', dinner at Musso and Frank's, and a late-night stop at Pink's for a hot dog. This year all three of ...
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Superheroes, Villains, & Cartoon Characters...
The ultimate odd couple while in costume, they are among the men and women who impersonate cartoon characters, superheroes, queens and kings of the silver screen, villains and other fantasy beings. ...
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Hollywood Art Centennial: DeLongpre & Redmond
Granville Redmond, a transplanted Pennsylvanian known as one of California’s first resident Impressionists, is famous for his landscapes full of poppies, our state flower, and purple lupines – ...
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