Inside LA
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So you can have the best and most authentic experiences of Los Angeles.
Check here for neighborhood guides to LA, with their history and information on attractions and things to do there, as well as ways to experience different sides and elements of the city.
Culver City: LA’s Hidden Westside Gem
Culver City isn’t by any means considered one of Los Angeles County’s best known cities. Sitting on the Westside, almost completely surrounded by the city of LA, at first it can seem like it’s in-between a lot of other, much more interesting, places such as Santa Monica, Koreatown, Venice, downtown and even Beverly Hills. However,…
Crime Seen: The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in criminal history and a subject for numerous documentaries, books, TV episodes and movies. Law enforcement agencies, criminal experts, on-camera presenters and amateur sleuths have all attempted to solve the case, all without success. Rather like the Jack the Ripper murders in London…
The Sunset Strip: LA’s Adult Playground
Victor Ponet, a Belgian LA land developer, undertaker and diplomat, bought 240 acres of the old Rancho La Brea in 1890. His new estate consisted mostly of poinsettia fields and was a couple of miles west of a small village that was only just becoming known as Hollywood. Fourteen years later Ponet had a six-hundred…
Hollywood Sign: Hiking & History
The Hollywood Sign is such an iconic structure that it never needs an introduction or description to first-time visitors who are guests. They know it well, having seen it untold times in movies, TV shows and news pieces. For sure they’ve seen a picture of it many times too. Interestingly if you next ask them…
Broadway: LA’s Historic Theater District
When we visit the Broadway Theater District on our tours, visitors from outside Los Angeles can get confused. There’s a Broadway with lots of theaters in LA too? Isn’t that New York? Their confusion only increases when we tell them that actually ours has the largest number of historic theaters in the entire U.S. It…
Bicycling In LA: Rides & Routes
A lot of people, both visitors AND locals don’t even think it’s possible to go bicycling in LA. Or even if it is, that it would be unsafe, not to mention downright dangerous. The car is king here – this ain’t Yurup (which is how we say Europe by the way). However, you may be…
Sid Grauman & His LA Theaters
When the TCL Chinese Theatre opened in 1927 it was known as Sid Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and some older Angelenos still call it such. Directly opposite, across the Walk of Fame, is the El Capitan Theatre, now owned by Disney, but when it opened in 1926 it was a Broadway style theatre that was part-owned…