Posted on 12/20/2014 9:53:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
Los Angeles, in addition to being the movie capital of the world, is also listed as one of the must-see U.S. cities on many tourist lists. Famous for its celebrity sightings, red carpet events and Hollywood nightlife, LA is also filled with culture, historic locations, cutting-edge fashion and stunning scenery. Should you find yourself with some upcoming vacation time and you are trying to figure out where to go, here are five reasons to visit Los Angeles in 2015.
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They did not mention my favorite place, the Griffith Park Planetarium.
Good choice.
And 5,000 reasons NOT to ...
If you covered him with garbage, George Sanders would still have style, and if you stamped on Mickey Rooney, he would still turn round and smile.
I don’t consider Orange County to be part of LA, regardless what Arte Moreno thinks.
Celebrity sightings, like snipe hunting?
To be fair, the average idiot thinks LA consists of everything south of Ventura.
> “stunning scenery” in Los Angeles!?
somebody’s been smoking too much weed there...
Well Kalifornia IS the choom capitol of the world as far as usage goes...trillions of brain cells destroyed there every single day...
Didn’t George commit suicide?
Faithhopecharity, I used to be like you. I was born far away from LA and very near Hearst Castle, and was raised in one of the most beautiful seaside small towns in California. Lived there until I was in my early 30s, and am still related to literally hundreds of people there. Think SLO County, where "everybody" wants to live and "everybody" asks me, how could you have ever moved away?
Where I grew up, hating L.A. was the most popular indoor sport. It still is. All the people who tell me how awful L.A. (more accurately, Southern California) is have ... never lived here, and the people in L.A. who hate it have never lived anywhere else, but they know how great it is elsewhere. It's amazing how much people know about places they've never actually lived!
I moved to Southern California (which to the rest of the world is "L.A.," as chrisinoc sort of points out!) almost 25 years ago. I've lived in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties, always smack dab in the middle of some 10 million souls, and have only grown to LOVE my beautiful Los Angeles and So Cal more and more every year.
As for "stunning scenery" -- just last week, under the bright and beautiful warm sun, I swam in a 50-meter by 33-meter DEEP pool right next to the railroad tracks (I love trains) with gorgeous powerful locomotives roaring by on occasion, and the entire backdrop behind was a mountain range layered with snow. Truly beautiful, just breathtaking in more than one way.
Anybody who doesn't understand how much stunning scenery there actually is in So Cal ("Los Angeles") is either willfully blind with an attitude, or has never actually spent much time here.
I love L.A. (by that I mean Southern California, LA and Orange and San Bernardino and Riverside counties) and am grateful that the Lord's good path led me here!
The Caltech bookstore. And if your lucky, catch a lecture. Fascinating stuff.
Yes, and he left this suicide note:
“Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”
I enjoyed all of the movies I have seen him in. I especially liked “All About Eve” for some reason. He always seemed to be the smartest person in the room.
Yes, very scary. You best stay away and never come back.
Tell all your friends.
deal for you....
you take LA/San Bernardino/Riverside and
I will take Cambria/Cayucos/MorroBay
:)
I grew up in San Diego and the Bay Area. We always thought LA was a pothole with a traffic jam in it. Then, I took a job there, in my late 20s. I have lived in LA county ever since.
Yes, there are some bad things. I order my errands and such so that I hit things at off-peak hours.
But the scenery can be spectacular. We had a clear view of snowy mountains from our second story window the other day. We went to mid-Wilshire the other day for an errand and passed through lovely neighborhoods of 1920s mission style homes and apartments. And my kids went to an elementary school that had a view of the ocean, and the entire LA basin, with a peek at the Hollywood sign.
Now, on a hot October afternoon, with cinders blowing through the air from wildfires, it is not so much fun. But winter in LA is lovely. Watch the Rose Parade— you’ll see.
His jaded and gently humorous manner seemed to embody the disillusionment of the ruling class of the British Empire.
I liked him as the Saint and the Falcon.
A 1974 song Dr. Demento revived for the 1984 LA Olympics.
“Los Angeles, Los Angeles” -The Zanies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9FEk9lG54
Love this part;
“...but how can you compare these
to the freeways
of Los Angelees
where it only takes about 3 hours to get home and even a little bit longer if you have an accident.”
I've already taken Cambria/Cayucos/Morro Bay. They are over-rated and their freedoms are now regulated and strangled out of existence to a degree that makes L.A. look like the real America and Cambria/Cayucos/Morro Bay look like East Germany except in visuals. Beauty is only skin deep.
And remember San Luis Obispo -- a real trendsetter, setting the leftist liberal agenda for the rest of the state. IT was the first city in the United States to ban smoking not just in restaurants, but in bars. I was THERE. And SLO County, where for years now it has been ILLEGAL for business owners to give customers "free" plastic or paper bags for their purchases for several years. "Beautiful" SLO on the cutting edge again ... of course, that kind of tyranny outlawing sensible plastic bags going to be true all over California.
In that deal of LA/San Bernardino/Riverside for Cambria/Cayucos/Morro Bay, YOU would be getting the short end of the stick. I've lived for long periods of time in BOTH regions. I know of what I speak.
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