Posts Tagged ‘sightseeing’

5 Deja Vu Movie Sites

Marc Porter Zasada, KCRW Host.

John Marshall High School, 3939 Tracy Street, Los Angeles
The façade of this classic school showed up in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Mask, Wonder Years, Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, The Fisher King, Naked Gun, Reservoir Dogs, Space Jam…well, you’re certain to get that funny feeling.

1300 Block of Carroll Avenue
This little street of lovingly-restored Victorian homes in Angelino Heights appears constantly onscreen. A short list: The Thorn Birds, Earthquake, Salem’s Lot, Nickelodeon, Of Mice and Men, Deuce Bigelow, and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

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Top 5 Places Around the World Where You Lose Track of Time

Aaron Byrd, KCRW DJ.

I absolutely love to travel.  Currently I’m up to 16 countries and it’s a bit of an addiction, I admit, but to quote the wise Anne Litt — “it’s a great problem to have.”  I have been thinking back on all my travels — from horrible hostels and 13-hour train rides to some of the most euphoric sunsets and food that doesn’t make you miss your momma’s cooking. So I present to you the top 5 places around the world where you seem to lose track of time.
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5 Best Walking Streets by Kevin Roderick

Kevin Roderick, KCRW Host.

Los Angeles grew up as a driving city, and I’m as guilty as anybody of using my car for recreation and convenience more than necessity. Yet, I enjoy savoring a city’s sights and smells and personality on foot when I’m traveling — and lately I’m enamored of just parking my wheels where the mood strikes me and exploring L.A. from the sidewalk. Some of my favorite strips are obvious, some more of an acquired taste.

1 – Wilshire Boulevard.
OK, this may be too obvious. But America’s most quintessentially Automobile Age boulevard is appreciated in a whole new way while out and walking. I especially like the mile or so from Lafayette Park to Western. You stroll past dozens of storefronts that have seen decades of L.A. history, plus you can peer through the windows of the sublime former Bullock’s Wilshire department store.

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Five Secret L.A. Pleasures by Marc Porter Zasada

Marc Porter Zasada, Host of The Urban Man.

Every Angeleno keeps a list of secret pleasures, the "locals-only" joys we try not to share with tourists. Since KCRW listeners are like family, I’m offering five of my favorite places to sneak off and relax.

Drinks at the Casa Del Mar
This great 1926 hotel, with its high, wood-paneled lobby and elegant, slightly stuffy bar, overlooks the modern Santa Monica Beach with big picture windows. The whole thing exists in a deep, if expensive L.A. time warp. I order vodka martinis and read Raymond Chandler here.

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5 Best Places to be Stuck in Traffic by Kajon Cermak

Kajon Cermak, KCRW Traffic.

With 10 million people in LA County, 789,000+ in Ventura County and over 3 million in Orange County, why is it that every single one of them is on my freeway at exactly the same time I am going exactly where I want to go? We’ve all experienced some of the same annoying, overly repeated traffic scenarios — driving into Hollywood, southbound on the 101 you can pretty much count on hitting a brick wall at Melrose; the 5 in Santa Fe Springs always seems to bottleneck at the 605; in Orange County the northbound 405 is a nightmare into the Westside and now, through the Valley to the 118; the southbound 405 from Hawthorne to Long Beach always crowded, and then from the 22 to the 73 just doesn’t make sense. And the eastbound 10 from the beach to downtown, don’t even get me started.

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