Northern Districts, Los Angeles
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The northern districts of Los Angeles include North Hollywood, San Marino and Pasadena.
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J Paul Getty Museum
The huge complex of the uniquely designed J Paul Getty Museum contains numerous buildings and gardens. The extensive collection includes antiquities, paintings, sculpture, photography, and more.
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Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills has long been known as the suburb of the rich and famous, with many people from the film industry settling in this area.
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Malibu
Located along ocean front and backed by the Santa Monica Mountains, Malibu is an upper end area of Los Angeles and home to many famous people.
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Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Mission Hills, California
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was completed in 1812 and by the 1930s restoration had been completed. Visitors can tour the workshops or visit the cemetery with exotic plants on display.
John Anson Ford Amphitheater
John Anson Ford Amphitheater sits across the freeway from the Hollywood Bowl and offers live theater, dance and music.It houses two theaters
Bel Air (Westwood)
Lying north of Westwood and west of Beverly Hills, having grown up during the twenties, Bel Air is one of the most elegant of urban districts, with very beautiful and expensive villas. The steeply climbing and winding roads can be negotiated only by car. In Stone Canyon Road stands the most expensive luxury hotel in Los Angeles, Bel Air. It is spaciously built in the Spanish mission style and stands in the middle of an idyllic park surrounded by the scent of bougainvillea, magnolias and avocado wood. The private atmosphere of this hotel, which has the appearance of a picturesque village with its arcades and colonnades, appeals to such famous guests as the Rockefellers and the Kennedys.
Pacific Palisades
This district, part of Los Angeles, lies northwest of the city, high above the Pacific Ocean. It was founded in 1921 by the Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and thought of as a kind of spiritual center of the sect. Since then Pacific Palisades has developed into an elite part of the city, the inhabitants of which have the highest average income in Los Angeles.It has also been the exile home of some prosperous German writers, such as Thomas Mann (he had a house built here at 1550 San Remo Drive), Emil Ludwig and Lion Feuchtwanger, whose house went to the University of Southern California after the death of his widow in 1987.
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Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, California
More than 200 manufacturers have set up showrooms in the Pacific Design Center. Products include furniture, fabric, avante-garde fixtures, lighting and floor coverings. The Museum of Contemporary Art or MOCA is located within the center. The gallery focuses on architecture, design and art exhibitions.
Calabasas, California
Calabasas is located near Pacific Palisades. A group of sculptors, architects, writers, painters and other creative types formed Park Moderne, Calabasas' first subdivision in the late 1920s.
Grier Musser Museum
The Grier Musser Museum is a Victorian house with displays of antiques and furniture. The house is located on South Bonnie Brae Street close to the downtown area near the Red Line Subway Station.
Sylmar - Nethercutt Collection and Museum
The Nethercutt Museum is home to over one hundred antique, classical and special interest automobiles. Each car has been restored, they start and drive as if brand new.
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Encino, California
Encino (pop. 62,000) is located in the northwest district of Los Angeles north of Beverly Hills.
Marina del Rey, California
Marina del Ray (pop. 8,100) is a resort town with the world's largest man-made small boat harbor.
Redondo Beach, California
Redondo Beach (pop. 60,167) is located on the Pacific Ocean, 17mi/27km southeast of Los Angeles. The International Surf Festival occurs here in August.
Pasadena
Just a short drive from downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena developed as a winter spa resort and continued to draw people from other parts of the country who came here to enjoy the climate.
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Griffith Park
The huge Griffith Park contains the Los Angeles Zoo, the Griffith Observatory, a Greek theater, and many other recreational facilities.
Southwest Museum (closed)
Founded in the year 1907 by the Southwest Society, the Southwest Museum opened on its present site in 1914. Situated at 234 Museum Drive
Lummis House
The Lummis Home in Los Angeles is a creative looking stone house, complete with round tower and shuttered doors and windows. The house resembles something out of a fairy tale with round rocks of various sizes making up the exterior.The house was built around the turn of the 20th Century by Charles Fletch Lummis. It is made of stones from the Arroyo Seco River which runs by the property. Architecturally the house is significant as an early example of what would later become the popular Arts and Crafts style of architecture. The interior has open wooden support beams and is decorated with wood furnishings.
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is home to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The stadium can hold 56,000 and was built in 1962. For a behind the scenes look at the facility you may want to take a tour. This is the third oldest baseball stadium and it definitely has some history. If you are lucky enough to be in Los Angeles during a game you might want to see the stadium in action.
Echo Park
Echo Park has a 15-acre lake and is filled with semitropical plants, rows of palm trees and a lotus pond as its defining element. In summer, the lotus blossoms transform the lake which are used for dragon-boat races in the Chinese tradition during the July festival.The park is the center of a multicultural community. Artists meet there to hold a fall studio tour and arts festival.
Elysian Park
Spanning 600 acres, Elysian Park is Los Angeles' second-largest park. The Chavez Ravine Arboretum on Stadium Way was planted in the 19th-century with rare trees. The park offers hiking trails, and a rock garden (at the Police Academy). The park also contains picnic benches, a sand box, and access to the Los Angeles River Bike Path.
Ennis House (closed)
ATTRACTION IS CLOSED.Ennis House was the last of Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete block houses, completed in 1924. It commands spectacular views of Los Angeles. The building has been declining over the years due to a number of factors including the 1994 earthquake. As a result the Ennis House Foundation is working towards restoring the property.
NeutraVDL Research House
The original VDL House was completed 75 years ago, a glass house with a rooftop balcony. In 1963, a fire destroyed all but the garden house and basement of the main structure so the house was re-designed and rebuilt. Two floors were built on the original basement structure including water roofs and sun louvers.
Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita is located just north of Los Angeles. It actually consists of 7 different communities: Canyon Country, New Hall, Saugus and Valencia are part of Santa Clarita proper, while Agua Dulce, Castaic and Val Verde are outlying areas still considered part of the Santa Clarita community.
Heritage Square Museum
The Heritage Square Museum is an open-air museum. The Museum's collections and exhibits present the story of everyday life in Los Angeles, during the years 1865 to 1914.
San Marino, California
San Marino near Pasadena is the location of the Huntington Library and Gardens and the Michael White Adobe.
Westside Pavilion
The Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles has over 160 stores including Nordstrom and a Barnes and Noble Bookstore. There are cinemas and restaurants.
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