When Los Angeles was a new city, Downtown was the place to be. This was the center of banking, movies, and learning. This guide to DTLA’s Historic Core will give you plenty to do if you are a tourist, a local, or an Angeleno entertaining tourists. History The first movie premiers happened here, not in Hollywood. Broadway was the entertainment district of Los Angeles from the late 1910s to the…
Neighborhoods
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Culver City Guide
In the early 1900s, a real estate man from Nebraska named Harry Culver set on a mission to lure movie studios to the middle of nowhere. Seeing it now, it is hard to believe that Culver City was once a land of vast barley fields…
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Mid-Wilshire Neighborhood Guide
If you come to Mid-Wilshire, chances are you are visiting one of these locations–The Grove, The Original Farmers Market, and Museum Row. This neighborhood has an interesting mix of art, tourist sites, and tons of 1920s apartment buildings and homes. This Mid-Wilshire Neighborhood Guide gives…
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Los Angeles on a Budget: Entertainment
Can you experience all of the great things in Los Angeles without spending all your money? Absolutely, yes. In this second post in the series, we focus on Los Angeles on a budget, entertainment. These are all of the great date nights and group hangouts…
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Culver City’s Everything Spaces: Helms Bakery District
Helms Bakery District was an island amid office spaces when I worked in the area in the late 2000s. This is where interior designers shopped, and The Beacon and Le Dijoinaisse fed everyone. Now This district has great food and hosts events, from art’s intersection…
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Culver City’s Everything Spaces: The Platform
Across the street from Ivy Station is the next Culver City Everything Space: The Platform. It is a higher-end shopping area with a curated collection of restaurants, clothing, and design stores. If you have been following the blog for a while, you may remember this…
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Culver City’s Everything Spaces: Ivy Station
When I worked in Culver City over fifteen years ago, the intersection of Washington and Robertson was offices and warehouses. The area that is now Ivy Station was a greenhouse/nursery where I would pick up staff birthday gifts. Back then, I would have called this…
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Things to do in Downtown Culver City
If you read my last post about where to eat in downtown Culver City, you may wonder how you can stay in the area to eat all the recommendations I mentioned. These next few hundred words include my recommendations for things to do in downtown…
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Downtown Culver City
There is something strange about driving around downtown Culver City. Streets intersect at perpendicular lines almost like the city planners threw pick-up sticks in the air and used what fell as a blueprint for its streets. In all actuality, this was from when the Pacific…