Ross Monument at Wilshire Blvd. Like this: Like Loading Follow Following. Miracle Mile Residential Association Join other followers. Sign me up. LACMA's collections and particularly its exhibitions and programming have long been the most impressive in the city. Its collections span hundreds of years and thousands of miles, from the Pavilion for Japanese Art to the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Miracle Mile was the first commercial development in LA designed expressly for the benefit of drivers, and so a former department store makes an apt home for this museum of car culture.
A redesign has since turned the automotive history museum into more of a high-tech gallery with about cars on display. There's a glimpse into the rise of car culture in Southern California, but that mostly takes a backseat to a focus on the progress, dominance and dazzling good looks of the automobile.
You'll find a mix of famous Hollywood cars, sumptuously swooping vintage vehicles and high-performance supercars. Back in , a group of amateur paleontologists discovered animal remains in the pits at Rancho La Brea, which bubbled with asphalt from a petroleum lake under what is now Hancock Park.
Some years later, the pros are still at work here, having dragged more than 3. Many of these specimens are now on display in this delightfully old-fashioned museum. Outside, the pits still bubble with black goo—in summer, you can watch paleontologists at work in the excavation of Pit 91 and inhale the nasty tang of tar in the air. Shows could take in anything from Venetian glassmaking to American printmaking, the circus-themed dioramas of Sonny King to a retrospective of work by Hungarian designer Eva Zeisel.
Hancock Park—not to be confused with the affluent neighborhood of the same name—sits atop a literal mine of goo-soaked preshistoric bones. You don't need to pay for admission to the Page Museum to walk around the Pits, and the same goes for the opposite end of the park, where you can pose in the Instragrammable Urban Light sculpture without a ticket to LACMA. The green expanse between the two institutions is picnic and dog-friendly, and overall a wonderful place to enjoy the outdoors.
It might be a gorgeous Art Deco relic, but the capacity El Rey runs a roster that's decidedly dust-free. From Fuzz to the Raveonettes, Dizzee Rascal to Autolux, the schedule is full of acts du jour, with the older but still-interesting likes of Roky Erickson and Nick Lowe also appearing. Sound and sightlines are both excellent. The history of moviemaking will have a home in Los Angeles in , when the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is scheduled to open.
Located next to LACMA in the Wilshire May Company buildling and in a new and expanded space designed by Pulitzer Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the museum will feature gallery space, theaters including a 1,seat space , screening rooms and other event spaces.
The Academy's collection includes millions of photographs and thousands of scripts, films, posters and drawings.
Some preliminary advice: Should the phrase "Hold the bread, please" cross your mind, hold your tongue instead—the freshly baked breads and pastries, as well as the charcuterie and cheese choices, are phenomenal. Given its s-style aesthetic, Don Draper would feel right at home ordering his signature Old-Fashioned, or, if he felt so inclined, a creative cocktail from the impressive drink menu.
To nibble, you'll find a smaller, simpler menu of Ray's Mediterranean-esque food—head next door if you're looking for a full course. Nancy Silverton is credited with single-handedly introducing Angelenos to the joys of the fresh, flavorsome loaf.
In the two-plus decades since her store opened, she's become a household name and her store has grown into an international operation.
The bakery's newest home on the corner of La Brea and 6th Street is larger than ever, with plenty of space to munch on turkey avocado sandwiches followed by arguably one of LA's best chocolate chip cookies. Open since , Tom Bergin's Public House has been gracing us with their exceptional Irish coffee and all around excellence for nearly 80 years, serving as a gathering place for the neighborhood—and for those who have to travel a little farther to get a taste of the homeland.
Conservancy then to save it The Miracle Mile was a promotional name to introduce that area of new stores being built there in the late s and early '40s… the kids at Fairfax and Los Angeles High Schools were asked to enter a contest of "slogans" befitting this new commercial idea.
The winner of this contest was a Fairfax junior named Muriel Wallace my sister , and her winning slogan was "Mile of Style, Miracle Mile. Let's take a memory trip down Wilshire, beginning at Fairfax Streets were named for early California figures, and monuments to pioneers can still be found in the tract.
Although the shopping center and hotel never happened, the Carthay Circle Theatre built in , razed in brought fame to the development. The Los Angeles Conservancy is a c 3 nonprofit organization. Wilshire at Fairfax looking east, You are here Home Explore L.
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