ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Places of Interest Listings

Paramount Pictures

5555 Melrose Ave. (323) 956-1777. Longest continuously operating film studio in Hollywood. The origi…

Pantages Theatre

6233 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 468-1770. The last theatre built by magnate Alexander…

Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave. (310) 657-0800. West Hollywood’s famous “Blue Whale” is a mult…

Ozzie & Harriet Nelson’s House

1822 Camino Palmero. Home of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson for 40 years and where David and Rick Nelson grew up. Hollywood High School, their alm…

Original Farmers Market

6333 W. 3rd St. (323) 933-9211. World-famous market, a Los Angeles tradition for more than 80 years. The Grove shopping and entertainment co…

Orchard Gables

1277 Wilcox Ave. Recently declared a Historical and Cultural Landmark, this arts & crafts European-style cottage built in 1904 is one of…

Musso & Frank Grill

6667 Hollywood Blvd Hollywood, CA 90028 (323) 467-7788 Open Tue-Sun. Hollywood’s oldest restaurant, it was a popular hangout for write…

Museums

Refer to listings for American Society of Cinematographers, The Autry, Hollywood Bowl Museum, Hollywood Heritage Museum, the Hollywood Museu…

Museum of Illusions

6751 Hollywood Blvd (800) 593-2902 Optical illusions designed to fill visitors’ photo albums with vivid and unusual photographs. Photography…

Museum of Death

6031 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 466-8011. Displays funerary items and mortician devices as well as war, autopsy and famous crime and morgue scene…

Murals in Hollywood

Murals in Hollywood An array of murals provide diversion to the urban streetscape. Don’t miss the spectacular L.A. Jazz tiled mural by Richa…

Mulholland Fountain

Los Feliz Blvd. and Riverside Dr. Dedicated August 1, 1940, as a memorial to William Mulholland who engineered the 238-mile-long aqueduct th…

Montecito Apartments

6650 Franklin Ave. Fine example of art deco style with Mayan influence, listed in National Register of Historical Places. Was home to James …

Melrose Avenue

A unique collection of restaurants, nostalgia shops, and boutiques with the newest and best of fashion for a hip and trendy look at what&#82…

Max Factor Building

(See Hollywood Museum listing) 1666 N. Highland Ave. Opened in 1935 with a “premiere” attended by Claudette Colbert, Rita Haywor…

Magic Castle

7001 Franklin Ave. (323) 851-3313. 1909 Gothic mansion once home to actress Janet Gaynor, now world-famous private club for magicians. Opera…