tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86922930997976484872024-02-19T04:07:36.836-08:00Los Angeles - San Francisco - Las VegasTravelling, Getting Around, Sightseeings, Landmarks, Accomondation, Food, Party, in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegasvilleveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-53470624487671161652012-03-27T02:43:00.000-07:002012-03-27T02:43:11.655-07:00Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KRe1lTGPcTrR56sWILdxx3-8w6pb1UZeD1H_D_NLZRd2WFPfFLGBiXXnf829OwsnrbFfk5iP7wB9AujMY3s8_9hl1PZSVFAcMG2b82Yymb6OezmpX7gFVYPmfEmVgr7BNzIEmapOLQ-X/s1600/767px-Image-Disney_Concert_Hall_by_Carol_Highsmith_edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KRe1lTGPcTrR56sWILdxx3-8w6pb1UZeD1H_D_NLZRd2WFPfFLGBiXXnf829OwsnrbFfk5iP7wB9AujMY3s8_9hl1PZSVFAcMG2b82Yymb6OezmpX7gFVYPmfEmVgr7BNzIEmapOLQ-X/s400/767px-Image-Disney_Concert_Hall_by_Carol_Highsmith_edit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.<br />
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Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003. Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.<br />
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<ul><li>The Hall was spoofed in The Simpsons episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch"; Gehry voiced himself in the episode where the town of Springfield had him design a new Concert Hall for the town.[12] The Concert Hall was then transformed into a jail by Mr. Burns. The character Snake eventually escapes from the prison while saying, "No Frank Gehry-designed prison can hold me!"</li>
</ul><ul><li>The first ever movie premiere at the concert hall was in 2003, when The Matrix Revolutions held its world premiere.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The Hall is featured in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In the opening moments of "Day 6" of 24, a suicide bomber destroyed a bus in the vicinity of the Concert Hall.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The Concert Hall held Ellen DeGeneres co-hosting for American Idol during the special week of Idol Gives Back. Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkson, and Il Divo performed here.</li>
</ul><ul><li>This building was also used in the Iron Man (2008 release) movie briefly for a party for Stark Industries.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The finale of the 2008 movie Get Smart was filmed at the Concert Hall.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In the promotion picture for the television series Shark, the cast is standing in front of the Concert Hall.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In the original pilot of the US TV remake of Life On Mars, the Hall features prominently in the sequence where Sam travels back to 1972. It is an emblem of the ultra-modern landscape that Sam is about to leave behind.</li>
</ul><ul><li>On Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis was preparing foods for her family and friends before she went there.</li>
</ul><ul><li>"One Hour", a 3rd season episode of NUMB3RS, extensively features the concert hall. The action begins outside the hall, and after a long series of events around town, the FBI winds up going inside the hall in order to rescue a young boy from his captors.</li>
</ul><ul><li>It is heavily used and an important building in the 2009 film, The Soloist.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Filming was done on location at the Concert Hall for a fictional Boomkat music video in the CW's Melrose Place.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The ABC show "Brothers and Sisters" often shows an exterior shot of Senator Robert McCallister's office that includes the concert hall. Also, Kitty proposed to Robert at a fund raiser held at the hall.</li>
</ul><ul><li>It was featured in the 2007 film, Alvin and the Chipmunks.</li>
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McCarran International Airport handles international and domestic flights into the Las Vegas Valley. The airport also serves private aircraft and freight/cargo flights. Some of the general aviation traffic uses the smaller North Las Vegas Airport and Henderson Executive Airport.<br />
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McCarran International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is located five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise in Clark County. It covers an area of 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) and has four runways. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation (DOA). It serves as a focus city for Allegiant Air and Southwest Airlines; McCarran is also the largest operation base for both Allegiant and Southwest. It is named after the former Nevada Senator Pat McCarran.<br />
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North Las Vegas Airport (IATA: VGT, ICAO: KVGT, FAA LID: VGT) is an airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Las Vegas, in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.It is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation.<br />
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Known locally as Northtown, it is the second busiest airport in the Las Vegas metro area and the third busiest in Nevada. It is the primary airport in the Las Vegas area for general aviation and scenic tours, allowing McCarran International Airport to focus on commercial flights. North Las Vegas does offer limited regional airline service. Many helicopter operators including the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department use the airport.<br />
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The airport is certificated under 14CFR Part 139.<br />
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Henderson Executive Airport (IATA: HSH, ICAO: KHND, FAA LID: HND) is a public airport located 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009-2013, it is categorized as a reliever airport. It was originally known as Sky Harbor Airport, but was renamed in 1996 when it was purchased by Clark County to be used as a reliever airport for McCarran International Airport.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-67103619224987663712011-01-12T00:18:00.000-08:002011-01-12T00:18:01.160-08:00San Francisco NeighborhoodsThe historic center of San Francisco is the northeast quadrant of the city bordered by Market Street to the south. It is here that the Financial District is centered, with Union Square, the principal shopping and hotel district, nearby. Cable cars carry riders up steep inclines to the summit of Nob Hill, once the home of the city's business tycoons, and down to Fisherman's Wharf, a tourist area featuring Dungeness crab from a still-active fishing industry. Also in this quadrant are Russian Hill, a residential neighborhood with the famously crooked Lombard Street, North Beach, the city's Little Italy, and Telegraph Hill, which features Coit Tower. Nearby is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=San Francisco Chinatown">San Francisco's Chinatown</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" />, established in the 1840s.<br />
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The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Franciscos-Mission-District-Images-America/dp/0738546577?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Mission District</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0738546577" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" /> was populated in the 19th century by Californios and working-class immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy and Scandinavia. In the 1910s, a wave of Central American immigrants settled in the Mission and, in the 1950s, immigrants from Mexico began to predominate.[69] In recent years rapid gentrification has spread, primarily along the Valencia Street corridor, which is strongly associated with modern hipster sub-culture. Haight-Ashbury, famously associated with 1960s hippie culture, later became home to expensive boutiques[70] and a few controversial chain stores,[71] although it still retains some bohemian character. Historically known as Eureka Valley, the area now popularly called the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Castro-Neighborhoods-Hidden-Cities-Francisco/dp/0984136908?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Castro</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0984136908" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" /> is the center of gay life in the city. <br />
The Mission District is known for its colorful murals. This 2002 mural by Precita Eyes' Martin Travers was applied to a security gate.<br />
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The city's Japantown district suffered when its Japanese American residents were forcibly removed and interned during World War II. The nearby Western Addition became established with a large African American population at the same time. The "Painted Ladies", a row of well-restored Victorian homes, stand alongside Alamo Square, and the mansions built by the San Francisco business elite in the wake of the 1906 earthquake can be found in Pacific Heights. The Marina to the north is a lively area with many young urban professionals. <br />
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The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Richmond">Richmond</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" />, the vast region north of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Golden Gate Park">Golden Gate Park</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" /> that extends to the Pacific Ocean, has a portion called "New Chinatown" but is also home to immigrants from other parts of Asia and Russia. South of Golden Gate Park lies the Sunset with a predominantly Asian population.[74] The Richmond and the Sunset are largely middle class and, together, are known as The Avenues. These two districts are each sometimes further divided into two regions, the Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset can refer to the more Western portions of their respective district and the Inner Richmond and Inner Sunset can refer to the more Eastern portions. Bayview-Hunters Point in the southeast section of the city is one of the poorest neighborhoods and suffers from a high rate of crime, though the area has been the focus of controversial plans for urban renewal.<br />
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The South of Market, once filled with decaying remnants of San Francisco's industrial past, has seen significant redevelopment. The locus of the dot-com boom during the late 1990s, by 2004 South of Market began to see skyscrapers and condominiums dot the area (see Manhattanization). Following the success of nearby South Beach, another neighborhood, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Mission Bay">Mission Bay</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" />, underwent redevelopment, anchored by a second campus of the University of California, San Francisco. Just southwest of Mission Bay is the Potrero Hill neighborhood featuring sweeping views of downtown San Francisco.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-189082960081234682011-01-07T00:10:00.000-08:002011-01-07T00:10:00.213-08:00Environmental issues - Los Angeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNYHdMQASi09ENi00F8MK4TELtGN6L_ZDUXaZN8rDaOBMyifEisNxU_gv0RgniOhsjzzcEdlaqRXUJ3iiebo0KhYg3ZXPGaUI_zRAA0v1xMvYVwnqkwJhHcryjUELjz1z3qc79b8aHvxQ/s1600/800px-Los_Angeles_Pollution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="110" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNYHdMQASi09ENi00F8MK4TELtGN6L_ZDUXaZN8rDaOBMyifEisNxU_gv0RgniOhsjzzcEdlaqRXUJ3iiebo0KhYg3ZXPGaUI_zRAA0v1xMvYVwnqkwJhHcryjUELjz1z3qc79b8aHvxQ/s400/800px-Los_Angeles_Pollution.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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The name given by the Chumash tribe of Native Americans for the area now known as Los Angeles translates to "the valley of smoke" because of the smog from native campfires. Owing to geography, heavy reliance on automobiles, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, Los Angeles suffers from air pollution in the form of smog. The Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley are susceptible to atmospheric inversion, which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources. Unlike other large cities that rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles gets only 15 inches (380 mm) of rain each year: pollution accumulates over many consecutive days. Issues of air quality in Los Angeles and other major cities led to the passage of early national environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act. More recently, the state of California has led the nation in working to limit pollution by mandating low-emission vehicles. Smog levels are only high during summers because it is dry and warm. In the winter, storms help to clear the smog and it is not as much of a problem. Smog should continue to drop in the coming years due to aggressive steps to reduce it, electric and hybrid cars, improvements in mass transit, and other pollution reducing measures.<br />
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As a result, pollution levels have dropped in recent decades. The number of Stage 1 smog alerts has declined from over 100 per year in the 1970s to almost zero in the new millennium. Despite improvement, the 2006 and 2007 annual reports of the American Lung Association ranked the city as the most polluted in the country with short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution. In 2008, the city was ranked the second most polluted and again had the highest year-round particulate pollution. In addition, the groundwater is increasingly threatened by MTBE from gas stations and perchlorate from rocket fuel. With pollution still a significant problem, the city continues to take aggressive steps to improve air and water conditions.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-47458012449540452062011-01-06T10:09:00.000-08:002011-01-06T10:09:15.576-08:00Las Vegas ClimateLas Vegas' climate is a subtropical arid climate (Koppen climate classification BWh), typical of the Mojave Desert in which it lies. The city enjoys abundant sunshine year-round and has an average of about 300 sunny days per year and more than 3800 hours of sunshine, with about 4.2 inches of rainfall, which on average occurs on 29 days per year.<br />
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The summer months of June through September are very hot and mostly dry with average daytime highs of 94 to 104 °F (34 to 40 °C) and nighttime lows of 69–78 °F (21–26 °C). There are an average of 133 days per year above 90 °F (32 °C), and 72 days above 100 °F (38 °C), with most of the days in July and August exceeding that benchmark. However, humidity is very low and often under 10%.<br />
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Las Vegas' winters are of short duration and the season is generally mild, with daytime highs near 60 °F (16 °C) and nighttime lows around 40 °F (4 °C). The mountains surrounding Las Vegas accumulate snow during the winter but snow is rare in the Las Vegas Valley itself.[14] Several years apart, however, snow has fallen in the valley. Temperatures can sometimes drop to freezing 32 °F (0 °C) but winter nighttime temperatures will rarely dip below 30 degrees.<br />
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Annual precipitation in Las Vegas is roughly 4.5 in (110 mm), which mainly occurs during winter but is not uncommon anytime of the year.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-41501377700952606952011-01-05T04:25:00.000-08:002011-01-05T04:25:49.205-08:00San Francisco Bay AreaThe San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas such as San Francisco-Oakland (12th largest in the country), San Jose (31st largest in the country), along with smaller urban and rural areas. Overall, the Bay Area consists of nine counties, 101 cities, and 7,000 square miles. The nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.<br />
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The Bay Area is home to many well-known cities. San Francisco is famous for its steep hills, cable cars and historic streetcars, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's Wharf. Oakland, on the east side of the bay, has the fifth largest container shipping port in the United States. The city is also a major rail terminus. San Jose sits nestled within Silicon Valley, the premier high technology region of the world. Silicon Valley covers several cities in the south Bay Area region, and is home to many of the industry leaders in technology such as Google, Yahoo!, Cisco, Apple, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard. Major corporations in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and the surrounding cities help make the region second in the nation in concentration of Fortune 500 companies, after New York.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-36515883643812888362011-01-03T08:23:00.000-08:002011-01-03T08:23:00.527-08:00Hollywood attractions video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2rck3rLCGSj8cOB0-B44KBGbh4zp-frrCaNmNMFd9de5Ti7U05RqKcmzUg8C1Oo3H0Ljutkdkph1vG-KkD2oMT7KDSzgcYciol1EFQlR_QFZ0TxZMXadDoUkLvrUEgwlcbRBYVLs-g3s/s1600/800px-HollywoodSign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="266" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2rck3rLCGSj8cOB0-B44KBGbh4zp-frrCaNmNMFd9de5Ti7U05RqKcmzUg8C1Oo3H0Ljutkdkph1vG-KkD2oMT7KDSzgcYciol1EFQlR_QFZ0TxZMXadDoUkLvrUEgwlcbRBYVLs-g3s/s400/800px-HollywoodSign.jpg" /></a></div><br />
A video guide to the best attractions in the city with year-round sunshine including Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, Venice Beach, Universal Studios, and Disneyland.<br />
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Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip. Nineteen of the world's 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67,000 rooms. One of the 19, the Las Vegas Hilton, is an "off-Strip" property but is located less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the Strip.<br />
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One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas' cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture. The modernization of hotels, casinos, restaurants, and residential high-rises on the Strip has established the city as one of the most popular destinations for touristsvilleveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-76230724179732872122011-01-02T06:49:00.000-08:002011-01-02T06:49:02.783-08:00San Francisco - Aquarium of the BayAquarium of the Bay is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and located at Embarcadero and Beach Street, at the edge of Pier 39 in <a href="http://losagelessanfranciscolasvegas.blogspot.com/search/label/San%20Francisco">San Francisco</a>, California. The Aquarium is focused on locals - local aquatic animals, from the San Francisco Bay and neighboring waters. The Aquarium has over 50 sharks from species such as Sevengill sharks, leopard sharks, soupfins, spiny dogfish, brown smoothhounds and angel sharks. The Aquarium also has skates, bat rays and thousands of other animals including eels, flatfish, rockfish, Wrasse, Gobies, Kelpfish, Pricklebacks, Ronquil, Sculpin and Sturgeons.<br />
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The Aquarium is divided into three parts: Discover the Bay, Under the Bay and Touch the Bay. Discover the Bay has a variety of satellite tanks, where you can walk around the exhibits and check out animals such as moray eels, Bay Pipefish (the father pipefish give birth to their young!), garibaldi (the California state marine fish) and more. Under the Bay is the aquarium's largest exhibit - 300 feet (91 m) of crystal clear tunnels featuring thousands of aquatic animals and other sea creatures. The exhibit is a recreation of the San Francisco Bay. The last major exhibit is Touch the Bay, where you can pet a few kinds of animals including bat rays, skates, leopard sharks, sea stars, sea cucumbers and others.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-4898839642522037202010-12-28T04:04:00.000-08:002010-12-28T04:19:30.157-08:00Los Angeles Books & Travel Guides pt 1Some books and travel guides about Los Angeles that are worth of checking out while planning your trip. Or when you hit da hoods.<br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=popsearch-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1595800506&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Stairs-Walking-Historic-Staircases/dp/1595800506?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1595800506" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
In a city known for its fast cars and freeways, this guide reveals a unique feature of the Los Angeles cityscape: more than 200 stairways across the hilly sections of the city, many of which are remnants from the days when most city residents depended on streetcars and buses for transportation. Containing more than 40 walks and detailed maps, this handbook highlights the charms and quirks of this quintessential feature of Los Angeles’ development and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical features of each staircase and the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. Rated for duration and difficulty, the circular walks deliver tales of historic homes, their fascinating inhabitants, and troves of historic trivia—such as where <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-William-Faulkner/dp/0679764038?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">William Faulkner</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0679764038" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> lived while he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not, where <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Graham-Nash-Eye/dp/3882439602?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Graham Nash</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=3882439602" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> lived, and where actress Thelma Todd was murdered—while other walks highlight spectacular homes by some of southern California's most important architects, including Neutra and Schindler. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena and walking the vintage Red Car Loop in Silver Lake to taking the Beachwood Canyon Hollywoodland hike and enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, these staircases present a new way for urban explorers to discover a little-known side of the City of Angels.<br />
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Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, each book in DK's Top 10 series uses evocative color photography, excellent cartography, and up-to-date travel content to create a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel guide.<br />
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Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from uncovering a city's most memorable sights to finding the best restaurants and hotels in each neighborhood.<br />
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And to save you time and money, there's even a Top 10 list of Things to Avoid.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/L-Bizarro-All-New-Insiders-Perverse/dp/0811865118?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=popsearch-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0811865118&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>L.A. Bizarro: The All-New Insider's Guide to the Obscure, the Absurd, and the Perverse in Los Angeles</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0811865118" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
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The cult classic is back! More than 10 years after pioneering the gonzo guidebook genre, this all-new edition of the beloved #1 best-selling guide to bad taste L.A. has been fully revised. Packed with 75% new material,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/L-Bizarro-All-New-Insiders-Perverse/dp/0811865118?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"> L.A. Bizarro</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0811865118" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> boasts scores of fresh discoveries plus original photos presented in luscious, lurid color. Connoisseurs of the weird and wonderful, Anthony Lovett and Matt Maranian steer readers into a world of culinary curiosities, morbid museums, sexual sideshows, and dipsomaniacal dives. From pet cemeteries to pi ata district, hundreds of odd and outr delights are laid bare for visitors and Angelenos alike.<br />
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From the Santa Monica Mountains to Angeles National Forest, from Orange County to the San Bernardino and the San Jacinto Mountains,Southland hiking guru Jerry Schad describes the "must do" trails in the greater Los Angeles area. The highly visual, easy access guidebook includes a range of trails for all levels and abilities suitable for walking, hiking, running, and mountain biking. Each trail has a custom map, "don’t get lost" trail milestones, elevation profiles, and the full range of trail features so hikers, cyclists, dog walkers and stroller users know exactly what to expect. This new edition describes a total of 57 trips and nine new trails including Corral Canyon in Malibu, Sycamore Canyon Waterfall, Oat Mountain in the Santa Susana Mountains, and Cobal Canyon Loop near Claremont.<br />
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Hang onto your Mickey hat while careening down Space Mountain<br />
Try on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=popsearch-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Pamela Anderson">Pamela Anderson</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=popsearch-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important" />'s tank top or designer shoes from Alias<br />
Dangle your sandy feet over a concrete wall and watch a surfer-skater-dog parade<br />
Swirl, sip, savor and spit your pinot on a sustainable wine tour<br />
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Covers LA, Disneyland, Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Joshua Tree!<br />
Three local authors; 1500 hours of on-the-ground research; 56 more pages; 65 detailed maps<br />
New Southern California for Kids chapter packed with tips for familiesvilleveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-13297314924740669272010-12-20T01:52:00.000-08:002010-12-20T01:52:47.142-08:00Getting around in Las Vegas - TransportationRTC Transit is a public transportation system providing bus service throughout Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and other suburban areas of the valley. Intercity bus service to Las Vegas is provided by traditional intercity bus carriers, including Greyhound; many charter services, including Green Tortoise; and several Chinatown bus lines. Amtrak California also operates Deluxe Express Thruway Motorcoach dedicated service between the City and its passenger rail station in Bakersfield, California.<br />
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A new bus rapid transit link in Las Vegas called the ACE Gold Line (a bus route with limited stops and frequent service) was launched in March 2010, and connects Downtown Las Vegas, the Strip, the Las Vegas Convention Center, and Town Square.<br />
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With some exceptions, including Las Vegas Boulevard, Boulder Highway (SR 582), and Rancho Drive (SR 599), the majority of surface streets in Las Vegas are laid out in a grid along Public Land Survey System section lines. Many are maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation as state highways. The street numbering system is divided by the following streets:<br />
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* Westcliff Drive, US 95 Expressway, Fremont Street and Charleston Boulevard divide the north-south block numbers from west to east.<br />
* Las Vegas Boulevard divides the east-west streets from the Las Vegas Strip to near the Stratosphere, then Main Street becomes the dividing line from the Stratosphere to the North Las Vegas border, after which the Goldfield Street alignment officially divides east and west.<br />
* On the east side of Las Vegas, block numbers between Charleston Boulevard and Washington Avenue are different along Nellis Boulevard, which is the eastern border of the city limits.<br />
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McCarran International Airport handles international and domestic flights into the Las Vegas Valley. The airport also serves private aircraft and freight/cargo flights. Some of the general aviation traffic uses the smaller North Las Vegas Airport and Henderson Executive Airport.<br />
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The Union Pacific Railroad is the only class one railroad to provide rail freight service to the city. Until 1997, the Amtrak Desert Wind train service ran through Las Vegas using the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that run through the city. Amtrak service to Las Vegas goes to Needles, California and continues on Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach bus service. Plans to restore Los Angeles to Las Vegas Amtrak service using a Talgo train were discussed in the late 1990s but no plan for a replacement was ever implemented. The Las Vegas Amtrak station was located in the Plaza Hotel; it held the distinction of being the only train station in the United States that was located in a casino.<br />
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Proposals to revive passenger trains to Las Vegas have included the Desert Xpress high-speed train from Victorville, California; the California-Nevada Interstate Maglev which would extend eventually to Anaheim, California with its first segment being to Primm, Nevada; the Las Vegas Railway Express; and most recently, the Z-Train which would travel six days a week between Los Angeles Union Station and a new Z-Train Station adjacent to the Strip.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-15151417158752560372010-12-19T08:52:00.000-08:002010-12-19T08:52:30.468-08:00San Francisco Trams (cable car system)The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last permanently operational manually operated cable car system, and is an icon of San Francisco, California. The cable car system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni as it is better known. <br />
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The very first successful cable-operated street railway was the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which opened on August 2, 1873. The promoter of the line was Andrew Smith Hallidie, and the engineer was William Eppelsheimer. <br />
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The current cable car network consists of three lines. Like other Muni routes, they have line numbers, but are generally referred to by the street name. The single-ended cable cars require manually-operated turntables to rotate the car around, so that it faces in the right direction. The city of San Francisco is home to three such turntables, or turn-arounds, outdoors (at Market & Powell, Taylor & Bay, and Hyde & Beach); with a fourth one being located inside the car barn.<br />
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The primary Los Angeles airport is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The fifth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States, LAX handled 61.9 million passengers, 1.884 million metric tons of cargo and 680,954 aircraft movements in 2007<br />
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<li> Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX) is owned by the city of Los Angeles. The airport is located to the west of the city and is, by far, the busiest airport serving the city.[1] It is the fifth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States; in 2006, LAX handled over 61 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo.</li>
<li> LA/Ontario International Airport (IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT), owned by the city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire. This airport is located to the east, in the bedroom community city of Ontario, California and is the next most prominent airport after LAX.</li>
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<ul><li> Bob Hope Airport (formerly Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport) (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) is located in the middle north-east of the city. It is limited to a small number of passenger airlines and serves the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys.</li>
<li> John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA) is located to the south-east of the city, in the city of Santa Ana, in the northern part of Orange County.</li>
<li> Long Beach Airport (IATA: LGB, ICAO: KLGB) is located to the south of the city, in the city of Long Beach.</li>
<li> LA/Palmdale Regional Airport (IATA: PMD, ICAO: KPMD) is located north of the city, in Palmdale. The airport is owned by the city of Los Angeles and serves the northern outlying communities of the Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys.</li>
<li>Palm Springs International Airport (IATA: PSP, ICAO: KPSP) is located very far east of the city, near Palm Springs, and serves the Coachella Valley area of Riverside County.</li>
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LA Airports in popular culture:<br />
<ul><li> Several scenes of the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger motion picture Commando were filmed at the Tom Bradley International Terminal, on the airfield, and in an LAX parking deck.</li>
<li> Although set at Washington Dulles International Airport, 1990's Die Hard 2 was filmed at the Tom Bradley International Terminal.</li>
<li>In the 2004 video game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the airport was featured and parodied as Los Santos International Airport or LSX and was commonly called as Los Santos International. The theme building and the control tower of LAX were also featured. The theme building was also featured in the 2005 videogame, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.</li>
<li> In the final season premiere of Lost, notably titled LA X, the alternate timeline sequences are mostly set in LAX, which was the intended destination of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.</li>
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Inspired by the Lake Como resort of Bellagio in Italy, Bellagio is famed for its elegance. One of its most notable features is an 8-acre (3.2 ha) lake between the building and the Strip, which houses the Fountains of Bellagio, a large dancing water fountain synchronized to music.<br />
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Inside Bellagio, Dale Chihuly's Fiori di Como, composed of over 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers, covers 2,000 sq ft (190 m2) of the lobby ceiling. Bellagio is home to Cirque du Soleil's aquatic production "O".<br />
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* The Bellagio and its fountains are featured in the 2007 film Lucky You and the 2008 film 21.<br />
* The Bellagio was featured prominently in the remake of Ocean's Eleven. The curved staircase that Tess Ocean (played by Julia Roberts) descended was removed during a 2006 remodel to accommodate the entrance pathway from a newly built hotel tower, called The Spa Tower. New shops and restaurants fill the space. The fictitious vault for the three casinos that were robbed (MGM Grand, Mirage, and Bellagio) owned by Terry Benedict (played by Andy García) was located beneath the Bellagio.<br />
* In the 2007 film Ocean's Thirteen, Daniel Ocean (played by George Clooney) is talking about The Dunes Hotel (which was situated on the same place before the Bellagio was built) while he is standing in front of the Fountains of Bellagio together with Rusty Ryan (played by Brad Pitt).<br />
* In the 2009 film 2012, The Bellagio, along with the rest of The Strip, was destroyed while the dome of the hotel is nearly crashed into by the giant plane similar to the Antonov An-225.<br />
* In the 2009 film The Hangover, the Bellagio fountains are featured in the opening scenes. Towards the end of the film, Doug (played by Justin Bartha) finds Bellagio chips in his pocket after being found.<br />
* In 2010 another remake of Ocean's Eleven featuring Owen McLeod prominently features the Italian styled hotel/casino along with the famous Bellagio fountains and the Boulevard.<br />
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Address:<br />
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Bellagio<br />
3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South<br />
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109<br />
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No. of rooms 3,933<br />
Total gaming space 116,000 sq ft (10,800 m2)<br />
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www: <a href="http://www.bellagio.com/">http://www.bellagio.com/</a>villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-8610028110741644242010-12-12T08:14:00.000-08:002010-12-12T08:14:06.557-08:00The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRPllHuBxEzbHYCcbqf3jKq3glvC2eUkK5avyeGOcU-b6yTCaDT0cpqmlx4bAVHUZaee44I77vHQOcaS7E05B-bdCyI4mItS40YjSqKn9JcOAE2mvNQgPyclm6kd2PXv5DqG3nVLIpcqv/s1600/486px-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-MOMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRPllHuBxEzbHYCcbqf3jKq3glvC2eUkK5avyeGOcU-b6yTCaDT0cpqmlx4bAVHUZaee44I77vHQOcaS7E05B-bdCyI4mItS40YjSqKn9JcOAE2mvNQgPyclm6kd2PXv5DqG3nVLIpcqv/s320/486px-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-MOMA.jpg" width="259" /></a></div>The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) houses 20th century and contemporary works of art. It moved to its current building in the South of Market neighborhood in 1995 and now attracts more than 600,000 visitors annually. The Palace of the Legion of Honor holds primarily European antiquities and works of art at its Lincoln Park building modeled after its Parisian namesake. It is administered by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which also operates the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. The de Young's collection features American decorative pieces and anthropological holdings from Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Prior to construction of its current copper-clad structure, completed in 2005, the de Young also housed the Asian Art Museum, which, with artifacts from over 6,000 years of history across Asia, moved into the former public library next to Civic Center in 2003.<br />
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Opposite the Music Concourse from the de Young stands the California Academy of Sciences, a natural history museum that also hosts the Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium. Its current structure, featuring a living roof, is an example of sustainable architecture and opened in 2008. The Palace of Fine Arts, built originally for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, has since 1969 housed the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692293099797648487.post-89620429263132072010-12-12T08:04:00.000-08:002010-12-12T08:04:58.229-08:00Old Chinatown, Los AngelesThe first Chinatown, centered around Alameda and Macy Streets, was established about 1880. Residents were evicted to make room for Union Station, causing the formation of the New Chinatown.Reaching its heyday from 1890 to 1910, Chinatown grew to approximately 15 streets and alleys containing 200 buildings. It was large enough to boast a Chinese Opera theatre, three temples, its own newspaper, and a telephone exchange.<br />
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From the early 1910s Chinatown began to decline. Symptoms of a corrupt Los Angeles discolored the public's view of Chinatown; gambling houses, opium dens, and a fierce tong warfare severely reduced business in the area. As tenants and lessees rather than outright owners, the residents of Old Chinatown were threatened with impending redevelopment and as a result the owners neglected upkeep on their buildings.[3] Eventually, the entire area was sold and resold, as entrepreneurs and town developers fought over usage of the area. After 30 years of continual decay, a Supreme Court ruling approved condemnation of the entire area to allow for the construction of the new major rail terminal, Union Station.<br />
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"The original Chinatown's only remaining edifice is the two-story Garnier Building, once a residence and meeting place for immigrant Chinese," according to Angels Walk – Union Station/El Pueblo/Little Tokyo/Civic Center guide book. The Chinese American Museum is now located in Garnier Building.villeveehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472450470638080911noreply@blogger.com0