However it is a nice little community, very clean and friendly. It is tight though. If you have a trailer, you drop it at the office, and it's placed in it's spot with a fork lift that has a trailer ball on it's forks.
When we arrived, the owner Steve told us about the scene from the TV show "NCIS:LA" that was filmed at his Park back on the 18th. He said people from the show stopped by and asked if they could film a scene at his park which happened to include an exploding travel trailer. "No problem", he told them because he just happened to have a trailer they could blow up. He'd just bought it from a long time tenant who moved back to Phoenix. He showed me a series of photos taken during the filming, including the exploding trailer. He mentioned the cast and crew were great people, including LL Cool J. If only I'd have been here on the 18th.
That afternoon we decided to drive Mulholland Drive. Driving Mulholland was on my to do list in LA. Here is a picture of yours truly.
Mulholland follows the ridge line of the Santa Monica Mountains. It separates the San Fernando Valley from LA and the LA basin. This is a view of the San Fernando Valley.
This is a view of LA from Mulholland.
A lot of people have houses off Mulholland, including Jay Leno. We drove the opposite way from Leno's end. He's further out. This is an example of a dwelling up on the mountain. This doesn't belong to a big star.
After leaving Mulholland, we drove over to Griffith Park. It is one one of the largest urban parks in the US. It includes Griffith Observatory. Did we pick the WRONG day to do that. Half of LA must have been at or going to the Observatory. As usual in LA, parking was limited. We did manage a drive by photo op of the Observatory and the Hollywood sign.
After this, we went down to Hollywood in search of Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Another bad idea. I think all of the tourist in LA were here. It was glacier slow driving down Hollywood Blvd. We went north of Hollywood Blvd a block to find parking. Quickly pulled into an on street parking meter spot. Quickly decided to move on when Mary found a double hand full of spent 38 spl and 357 magnum shell casings. We called an end to our 3rd day in LA.
Our 4th day in LA was more fruitful. We started the day by doing a dry run to Warner Bros Studios. We planned to go there the next day to take the Deluxe tour. After this, we drove down to Pink's Hot Dogs. We had the time to stand in line this day unlike the day we were visiting the La Brea Tar Pits. Funny thing about that long line to get into Pink's. By the time we got inside Pink's, the line we had been in was still the same length as it was when we first got in line, no longer, but no shorter either. Apparently, Pink's is a LA institution. In 1939, it started on the exact spot it is today, using a portable cart. In 1946, a permanent building was built where the cart had been. The shop has lots of photos on the wall of celebrities who have eaten Pink's dogs.
For grins.
We did find Grauman's Chinese Theater today. I was expecting something grander I guess.
For Mary's Mom, we found Tyrone Power's Star on the Walk of Fame.
Mary also bumped fists with Shrek.
After Pink's and the Chinese Theater, we drove over to Rodeo Drive. What a street. As I was driving up Rodeo, my left hip began to get warm. Come to find out, my credit card was beginning to heat up just from passing the store fronts.
These people live in a different universe than me, at least financially. Nice to see how the upper 10% live. At the far end of Rodeo Drive, we find "regular" homes. They would sell for multiple millions, but are are not huge mansions. Plus the architecture is eclectic in style.
Rodeo runs into Beverly Hills. Here is a shot of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
We looked hard for the Beverly Hillbillies, but couldn't find them. :)
Thus ended Day 4 in LA.
Revised 04/20/14. Spelling and grammatical errors corrected. Plus narrative changed is some places.
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