mrhenniger wrote:
I am going to be on vacation next week in California, some time will be spent in the LA/Hollywood area. Catherine wants to do some touristy type things. I think she wants to take a walk down Rodeo Blvd (hide the Visa!), and perhaps see the walk of fame with the stars in the sidewalk. Are there any good tour operators that perhaps provide bus tours of Hollywood? Any recommendations?
I think you want Rodeo Drive at the corner of Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills. The Peterson Automotive Museum is very good and near there:
http://www.petersen.org/
Also:
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Immortalized/ChineseTheatreForecourt.shtml
My boss went to this a few weeks back with her kids and thought this was fantastic:
http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/Weingart/BodyWORLDS_2/BodyWORLDS_2.php They also have some aircraft on display as well as an IMAX theater.
I know there are tour buses that drive by the stars' homes, but I have never taken one.
Californians are car nuts, so I would just drive myself. Parking isn't always easy, but you can either use a parking garage or walk a few blocks at most.
From this site (for the unusual):
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/roger/QueryTips.php3?tip_AttractionName=hollywood&tip_State=CA&Submit=Go
Hollywood's dead star in theme park-like cemetery
Update to earlier report: The neglected Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery breathes with new life, due to the efforts of entrepreneur Tyler Cassity, 28 year old son of a St. Louis mortuary chain owner, and his investors. Cassity bought it last April for $375,000, and has renamed this final resting place of countless movie stars "Hollywood Forever." It will encourage tourists to visit and spend the day.
The 620-acre property opened in 1901, and is eternal home to Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin, Peter Lorre, and Cecil B. DeMille. Then there's Fatty Arbuckle's accuser, Virginia Rappe, and "Alfalfa" of Little Rascals fame. It also is home to the Defenders of Industrial Freedom Monument, and a Scale Replica Atlas Missile.
The cemetery had undergone a steady battering over the years, by earthquake, El Nino, and vandalism. The new owners are engaged in the $7 million renovation project, restoring damaged monuments and crypts, sprucing up the grounds, and making room for an additional 60,000 inhabitants.
The new owners have added fabulous features that every cemetery will soon need to compete. Families can watch videos of the deceased in a kiosk, from low-tech life memories and good-bye messages, to lavish biographies with special effects. Another burial option: Cassity hopes to record DNA analysis of the recently dead on CD-ROMs, which will be stored with locks of hair, to the delight of future scientists and movie fans. (6000 Santa Monica Boulevard) [02/13/1999]
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Facelift for Tinsel-Town Footway
Hollywood, CA, is spending a quarter-million dollars to repair its most popular tourist attraction, the Walk Of Fame sidewalk. Tree roots and the rumbling of traffic on Vine Street have damaged the Walk of Fame stars of Tom Hanks, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Shirley Temple, Tina Turner, Phyllis Diller, and Andy Garcia.
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Los Angeles, California - Planet Hollywood of porrnn
In December, Larry Flynt opened Hustler's Hollywood, a coffee and porno shop right in the heart of the Sunset Strip (in a former Blockbuster location). Dubbed the "Planet Hollywood of porrnn," part of the fun is a skin-flick walk of fame, with the handprints in cement of Ron Jeremy and Marilyn Chambers, among others.
This is the second sex walk of fame in LA. The first one is out front of what used to be The Pussycat Theater in West Hollywood. The Pussycat, which shot to national prominence for showing Deep Throat 13 times a day for 10 years, is now called the Tomkat Theater. In the sidewalk outside are still the Golden Age Porno hand and footprints from the likes of Linda Lovelace and John Holmes. [MW, 02/09/1999]
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