A fun fact people like to share about the Capitol Records building is, “Did you know it’s designed to look like a stack of records?” As the world’s first circular office building, it’s easy to draw that conclusion but it’s incorrect. The iconic tower was designed by Welton Becket and Associates, with architect Louis Naidorf […]
The eccentric reputation of the Frolic Room is large. The Frolic Room itself is tiny. Visitors may find themselves stepping into the historic Hollywood Boulevard dive bar they’ve heard so much about and saying, “This is it? The Frolic Room has been a local watering hole since prohibition. It opened as a speakeasy in 1930, […]
There’s a familiar sense of comfort about a dimly-lit Italian restaurant with red and white checkered table cloths and red dimpled candle holders. At first glance, Miceli’s may seem like a run-of-the-mill pizzeria with a cool neon sign and red and green awnings above the entrance that let tourists know they’re walking past “the oldest […]
This frequently Instagrammed mural was famous long before Emma Stone strolled past it in a scene from LaLa Land. The 20 x 30-foot mural depicts 71 classic movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor, to name a few. It’s named “You are […]
Taylor Swift has been criticized for a lot of things, even her music videos, but yet they always manage to make a big pop culture splash. Each vibrant scene in her 2018 video, “Delicate” was filmed at historic locations in downtown Los Angeles. After the video’s premiere at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the music video’s […]