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Best Kept Secret

1. Greystone Park and…

Sunset, and if you take the wrong Doheny, you will end up driving up a very long and steep road until you hit a cull de sac. The other Doheny will lead you straight into Beverly Hills' best-kept...

2. Hollywood Bowl…

Neighborhood: Hollywood

It's really not that hard to make a woman smile and feel all giddy inside; just take her here! The view is one of the best I've seen! You can see all of LA; downtown, Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Bowl...

3. Wilshire Park

It's easier to tell people that I live in Koreatown. But in truth, I live in the best-kept secret neighborhood: Wilshire Park!  Nestled between Hancock Park and Koreatown proper, my hood has...

4. Gamble House

Neighborhood: Pasadena

If you have never heard of architects Henry and Charles Greene, I'll let you in on a little secret: they were the jedi knights of architecture!!!   The Greene brothers unlocked the mystery of man's...

5. Griffith Park

Neighborhood: Griffith Park/Los Feliz

This is a great place to go for a spectacular view of Hollywood and Downtown. On a clear day, you can see the Hollywood sign and the beautiful skyline that this city has to offer. For the best...

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Neighborhood Favorite

1. Watts Towers Arts…

Neighborhood: Watts

be 10 times as tall.  The irony of the Towers is almost literary in its scope. Here you have this neighborhood that's been marginalized by gangland shootings, scenes of yellow police on the 11 o'clock...

2. Gamble House

Neighborhood: Pasadena

from Mrs. Gamble's favorite vase, to match.  Or a hanging "crane" incense burner representing the Gambles family crest, that Mrs. Thorsen bought in Asia and had "built into" the underside of the main...

3. Abbot Kinney

this is my favorite place to see a modern-chic prefab 2 story house, a garden that is also an art display, a shitload of distressed salvage home stuff, a sign of obama with an afro for a salon...

4. Venice Canals

Neighborhood: Venice

Yelpers, is also a tribute to perhaps my most favorite place in all LA.  I got several fave places though, so it's a tough call.  It's amazing that many long-time LA residents have never even heard...

5. Grand Hope Park

Neighborhood: Downtown

This is a public park.  It was built in order to revitalize downtown. Now that the neighborhood has finally become a residential hub, it's time to open up the park to dogs on leashes...

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