Could drive to Hollywood and see the sidewalk with the names and hand and foot prints of Stars memorialized in the sidewalk, I think it's outside Grauman's Chinese Theater. They're always showing those on TV, but seeing them in person is something different.
The Walk of Fame is an installation of over 2,600 stars along Hollywood Boulevard and beyond.
The Chinese Theatre, meanwhile, also sits on Hollywood Boulevard, is known for the celebrity handprints and footprints on the cement of the theatre's forecourt.
See if you can get stuck on the 405 for a few hours. Nothing more quintessential LA than that
I grew up there, before the 405 was built. Before they built the 405, they planned a freeway that went from downtown directly toward the ocean. It was going to go basically through our lot at the perimeter of Cheviot Hills. Some pressure from the community caused it to be diverted south a bit. Cheviot Hills is midway between Culver City (where MGM was located, since bought out by Sony) and Century City (which hadn't been born yet, it was just 20th Century Fox Studios at the time). Of course, when the 405 was developed, the freeway from downtown toward the ocean had an interchange at the 405, which runs parallel to the ocean. L.A. has changed a lot since those days, it's a lot more dense. It's not NYC dense, it's kind of flat dense if that makes sense. There's a lot of mini-malls, something that didn't exist before. Malls are a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, seems to me.
Requiem for the Mall - Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics
https://www.popularmechanics.com › life-at-the-mall
Nov 27, 2017 —
Malls were the great social and economic experiment of the
second half of the twentieth century. Their death has been greatly exaggerated, ...
Uh, so were freeways, i.e. fast multi-lane highways with onramps and offramps, interchanges, and no commercial development at the edges. L.A. was transformed by the gradual development of freeways in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
