#1 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles CA
~0.11 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Triforium
Los Angeles CA
~0.19 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Children's Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.19 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Japanese American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.30 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chinese American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.35 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Symbolically housed in the oldest and last surviving structure of Los Angeles’ original Chinatown, the 7,200 square foot Chinese American Museum (CAM) embodies both a cultural and physical link to the past and a promising point of entry for the city’s multicultural future. Opened on December 18, 2003 after 20 years of dedicated community and civic leadership and support, CAM’s presence at El Pueblo de Historical Monument-- a 44-acre public park honored as the city's "birthplace" as well as the site of original Chinatown-- heralds a rebirth of an important city architecture and reflects the vibrant development of an immigrant history that began over 150 years ago in America, specifically when the first major Chinese settlement was documented in Los Angeles in the 1860s. As a visual symbol of new and emerging traditions, CAM is proud to serve as an active-learning institution dedicated to researching, preserving and sharing the stories, experiences and contributions of Chinese Americans in the United States through quality exhibitions, programs, events, publications and workshops.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Chinese American Museum (CAM) is to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of America’s diverse heritage by researching, preserving, and sharing the history, rich cultural legacy, and continuing contributions of Chinese Americans.
Museum History
The Chinese American Museum (CAM) is the first museum in Southern California dedicated to the Chinese American experience and history in this region.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Museum of Neon Art
Los Angeles CA
~0.35 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles CA
~0.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The Pavilion has 3,197 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor. The auditorium's sections are the Orchestra (divided in Premiere Orchestra, Center Orchestra, Main Orchestra and Orchestra Ring), Circle (divided in Grand Circle and Founders Circle), Loge (divide in Front Loge and Rear Loge), as well as Balcony (divided in Front Balcony and Rear Balcony).
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Los Angeles CA
~0.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, also called the Los Angeles Cathedral, is a cathedral church of the United States in Los Angeles, California. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and seat of its archbishop, currently Roger Cardinal Mahony.
Consecrated and dedicated on September 2, 2002, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels replaced the smaller Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, which was severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. While some felt St. Vibiana's Cathedral was irreparably damaged, the site was eventually taken over by the city which sold the former cathedral building to developer Tom Gilmore in 1999 for $4.6M. Gilmore has spent an additional $6M renovating it and turning it into a performing arts complex, now named "Vibiana."
It is mother church to over four million professed Catholics in the archdiocese. Our Lady of the Angels is home to the relics of Saint Vibiana, brought from Rome by Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, the first bishop of Los Angeles.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Music Center
Los Angeles CA
~0.41 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Museum Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
~0.42 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chinatown (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~0.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Chinatown in Los Angeles, California (Chinese: ??????; pinyin: luò shan ji táng rén jie) is a Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles that was founded in the late 1800s. It was originally located less than a mile from its current location where Union Station is located.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Music Center and Disney Hall
Los Angeles CA
~0.58 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
U.S. Bank Tower
Los Angeles CA
~0.64 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Downtown (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~0.66 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The area features many of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities, sightseeing opportunities, a variety of skyscrapers and associated large multinational corporations and an array of public art and unique shopping opportunities. Downtown is the hub of the city's freeway network and growing Metro rapid transit system.
Though Downtown is generally thought to be bounded by the Los Angeles River on the east, the Hollywood (101) Freeway to the north, the Santa Monica (10) Freeway on the south and the Harbor (110) Freeway on the west, some sources, including the Los Angeles Downtown News and Los Angeles Times, extend the area past the traditional boundary to include University Park and Exposition Park (encompassing the University of Southern California (USC) and Central City West neighborhoods.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Central Public Library
Los Angeles CA
~0.66 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Staples Center - LA Clippers - LA lakers - LA Kings
Los Angeles
~1.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles
~1.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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In Chavez Ravine, on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. The stadium was known as Chavez Ravine when the Angels were playing there.
Dodger Stadium is a stadium in Los Angeles, California, United States. Located adjacent to Downtown Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers team since 1962. Dodger Stadium was constructed from 1959 to 1962 at a cost of $23 million paid for through private financing. Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (behind Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago,) and is the largest ballpark by seating capacity.
The stadium hosted the 1980 MLB All-Star Game, as well as games of the 1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, and 1988 World Series. It also hosted the semifinals and finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic as well as exhibition baseball during the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Convention Center (Downtown)
Los Angeles CA
~1.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Convention Center opened in 1971 and expanded in 1993 and 1997. The northeast portion of the Center was demolished in 1997 to make way for the Staples Center.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Westlake (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Pico Union (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.84 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Echo Park
Los Angeles CA
~1.88 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Echo Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.
At the end of the 19th century, when the hills were still covered with native plants and grasses, a horse-drawn streetcar line served the dirt road that is now Echo Park Ave. The community of Echo Park was founded by Thomas Kelly, a carriage maker turned real estate developer. In the late 1880s Kelly teamed up with a group of local investors, selling off pieces of what they called "the Montana Tract." Legend says that the lake got its name after workers building the reservoir remarked that their voices echoed off the canyon walls.
Echo Park was named Edendale before the construction of the park itself. The original name survives through the U.S. Post Office Edendale branch and the Edendale branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
The Los Angeles film industry was centered in Echo Park before the studios moved to Hollywood, just before World War I. Mack Sennett's studio was in Echo Park until the end of the silent era, and a large number of silent comedies were shot in the neighborhood, as were several Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Our Gang, Ben Turpin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Chester Conklin, and Three Stooges shorts. Tom Mix also built his studio just over the hill in the Silverlake area, and many Westerns were shot in hills of Echo Park, East Silverlake and the Elysian Hills. Some of the earliest screen performers, including Gloria Swanson and Tom Mix, bought homes in the Angelino Heights and surrounding neighborhoods before moving to Hollywood and other areas.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Elysian Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.92 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Elysian Park is the city's oldest public park and, at 575-acres, the second largest after Griffith Park. It is home to numerous historic sites, including the Los Angeles Police Academy and Barlow Hospital, that are linked by miles of walking trails.
In 1769, Gaspar de Portola and Father Juan Crespi camped on the river bank opposite Buena Vista Hill near the North Broadway Bridge entrance to Elysian Park. Yang-Na Indian villagers from the creeks of Solano Canyon and the current location of the Los Angeles Police Academy greeted the Spaniards with native refreshments.
In 1781, the Pueblo of Los Angeles was officially established by Spanish California Governor Felipe de Neve with the Royal Grant of 4 square Spanish leagues (translated into 28 square miles or about 17,000 acres) of Pueblo Lands. Of this public land grant, the approximately 575-acre Elysian Park is the last remaining large piece. All else has been auctioned off or given away. Los Angeles even had to buy back the site of the present City Hall.
One of the first American official acts was the Ord Survey of 1849 to record the boundaries of these Pueblo Lands so they could be auctioned to produce city revenue. Elysian Park was then known as Rock Quarry Hills for the building stone mined in the area. But instead of being sold, the Rock Quarry Hills area were "reserved" for public purpose and withdrawn from public auction.
In 1886, the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles dedicated the Rock Quarry Hills as a city park forever, and renamed it Elysian Park (Elysian is derived from the Greek word paradise). Subsequent city charters have protected dedicated park lands and their use for park purposes in perpetuity.
These are rare charter provisions, as city charters go, and have given parkland protectors a firm legal base for organized support of dedicated park land in the City of Los Angeles. It is upon this legal base that the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park has fought for two decades to retain park lands for park purposes.
Every effort is being made to establish the historical significance of this public park in order to conserve it for future generations as a part of the Santa Monica Mountains system of urban open space vital to the survival of the human, animal and botanical denizens of these historic parklands.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Angelus Temple
Los Angeles CA
~1.95 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
MacArthur Park
Los Angeles CA
~2.11 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Silver Lake (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.52 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Cypress Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.74 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Cypress Park is a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, California, United States.
Cypress Park is one of the first suburbs of Los Angeles.[citation needed] It was developed mostly in the early 20th Century as a working class neighborhood whose main attraction was its proximity to the nearby railroad yards. The population back then was predominantly white and Italian-American.[citation needed]
Currently Cypress Park has a predominately Spanish speaking Latino population. However like many communities in the surrounding area, Cypress Park is undergoing rapid gentrification due to its proximity to both Downtown Los Angeles and Silverlake, plus easy commutes via three freeways (the 5, the 110, and the 2) to Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, and the San Fernando Valley.
Cypress Park was the long-time home of the Jeffries family who had a large Victorian house and estate at Cypress Ave and Figueroa St., now the site of Florence Nightingale Middle School. One of the Jeffries' children was James J. Jeffries, the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1899-1905. The Jeffries Family developed one of the real estate tracts in Cypress Park known as the Jeffries-Highland View Tract,[citation needed] and there is a street named after them, Jeffries Avenue, that goes from the Los Angeles River Center at Avenue 26 to Isabel Street.
Another notable historic home in Cypress Park is at 901 Isabel St, a 1905 Greek Revival Mansion designed by John C. Austin, architect of the Griffith Observatory and Los Angeles City Hall.[citation needed]
Cypress Park is also home to The Los Angeles River Center, formerly Lawry's Restaurant, as well as Footsie's, a local bar popular with east-side hipsters.[citation needed]
Cypress Park is represented by the Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Lincoln Heights (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.93 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Heritage Square
Los Angeles CA
~3.23 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
University of Southern California (USC)
Los Angeles CA
~3.38 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
California African American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~3.41 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The museum opened in 1981, in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center). The current facility was built with State and private funds of around $5 million. The museum was designed by the African–American architects Jack Haywood and (the late) Vince Proby. The new museum building opened to the public during the Los Angeles Olympic Games in July 1984. A major renovation occurred between 2001 and 2003.
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