ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Places of Interest Listings
Knickerbocker Hotel
Built in 1925, it was a glamorous hotel popular with celebrities. Errol Flynn lived here when he fir…
L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition
6331 Hollywood Blvd. and Vine. (323) 960-3511. Permanent exhibition retracing th…
Larry Edmunds Book Store
Larry Edmunds Book Store 6644 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 463-3273. Believed to have the largest collection of theatre and film related books in L…
Larry Edmunds Bookshop
6644 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 463-3273. Believed to have the largest collection of theatre and film related books in Los Angeles, offers photog…
Las Palmas Hotel
1738 N. Las Palmas. (323) 464-9236. Julia Roberts’ digs before business with Richard Gere moved her “uptown” to Beverly Hi…
Los Angeles Fire Department Museum & Memorial
1355 N. Cahuenga Blvd. (323) 464-2727. The LAFD houses its historic fire-fighting collection dating back to the 1880’s in the 1930 Hol…
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
5333 Zoo Dr. (323) 644-4200. At Griffith Park. Where the real wildlife is! One of the world’s finest zoos. New Hippo Encounter on week…
Madame Tussauds Hollywood
6933 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 467-8277. Hollywood branch of famed wax works. Open 10am daily.http://www.madametussauds.com/hollywood/
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…
Max Factor Building
(See Hollywood Museum listing) 1666 N. Highland Ave. Opened in 1935 with a “premiere” attended by Claudette Colbert, Rita Haywor…
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 whatR…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
