A Guide to Cool and Crazy places, spaces, & points of interest throughout California. Get your kicks with little-known attractions, seldom-seen distractions and the odd abstraction. These far-out, groovy locales are zero cool and guaranteed to blow your mind! Anderson to Zwinge
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
The Hollywood and Highland Shopping Center (mall) with its design inspired by the Gates of Babylon set from D.W. Griffith's 1916 film "Intolerance." Built in 2001, the elephants, pillars and archway - towering minimally some three stories high - are identical in scale to the sets of the original classic silent film.
The "Intolerance" Babylon set. Built in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles (today, the site of the Vista Theater). |
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Architecture,
Attractions,
Hollywood,
kooky sites,
Landmark,
scenery,
Sculpture
Saturday, May 12, 2018
WHO NEEDS OSCAR?
The Four Ladies of Hollywood statues creating the Hollywood Gateway on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and La Brea. A stainless steel gazebo structure was created by Catherine Hardwicke, and unveiled in 1993. Atop the structure of these female forms reminiscent of the Academy Award Oscar, is a weathervane Marilyn Monroe.
Mae West |
Dorothy Dandridge |
Anna May Wong |
Dolores Del Rio |
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Attractions,
Hollywood,
kooky sites,
Landmark,
Los Angeles,
scenery,
Sculpture,
sites,
statuary,
Tourist
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