One does not have to travel too far from Route 66 or the Santa Monica Pier to travel back to Santa Monica’s past. Just off the Third Street Promenade are the Fairmont Hotel and Bungalows, where contracted players from MGM stayed, including Greta Garbo. In today’s post, I am going to take you to another place built when the Pacific Coast Highway was just a dirt road. A house built…
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This Ugly Beautiful City, a recap episode
In my previous post, I talked about This Ugly Beautiful City being a year old. During that year I covered a lot of ground. I zig-zagged from Hollywood to Culver City, Century City to DTLA. Now it is time for a recap. When a television…
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Where to see celebrities in the wild
The Season of Celebrity is upon us. The past few weeks have brought us award show after award show, now are the final press junkets, television shows wondering who people will be wearing. This also means that many celebrities are actually in L.A. taking breaks…
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Dayhawks: Or Something L.A. that Happened
I dug this post up from the earlier incarnation of this blog and I had to share it again. Just to note, I wrote this post in 2014. I have spent more time in Hollywood in the past two months than I have in years.…
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Hollywood 101: Beginner’s Guide to Hollywood
Here is my Hollywood 101: A beginner’s guide to Hollywood. It will give you an idea of where to start if you have never been to Hollywood before and you want that touristy experience. These attractions are some of the most well-known and most visited…