Field Trips To California Autry Museum of Western Heritage
The American West blazes to life here with eight galleries
of art and artifacts depicting the historical and fictional
episodes from 16th century to the present.
Bob Hope Square
Beginning in World World II and continuing through the Gulf
war, comedian Bob Hope entertained the troops, bringing
a few laughs and a bevy of beautiful starlets to the battle
zones. In honor of his 100th birthday on May 29, 2003, the
famed corner of Hollywood and Vine was named Bob Hope Square
by unanimous vote of the Los Angeles City Council.
California African American
Museum
In Exposition Park, this state-run museum has permanent
fine arts and history collections tied to African American
culture, along with changing exhibits.
California Science Center
Awaiting curious minds and fingers are hundreds of hands-on
exhibits on physics, along with others on biology, technology,
and the environment. Space Gallery exhibits include NASA
capsules and a jet fighter plane.
CBS Television City
When Elvis first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956,
his performance was taped at CBS Television City, later
made famous as the origination point for the Carol Burnett
Show, the Sonny & Cher Show and dozens of other hits.
Look for the building with the familiar CBS eye logo just
north of the Farmers Market.
Celebrity Graves
Los Angeles cemeteries abound in opportunity to pay respects
to departed stars. Among them are Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills, with plots for Gene Autry, Lucille
Ball, Bette Davis, Andy Gibb, Liberace, Ricky Nelson, and
Telly Savalas, among others. At Forest Lawn – Glendale
are resting places for Gracie Allen and George Burns, Theda
Bara, Humphrey Bogart, Sammy Davis, Jr., Walt Disney, Clark
Gable, and Red Skelton, among others. At Hollywood Forever
Memorial Park are graves of Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks
and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jayne Mansfield, and Rudolph
Valentino, among others. At Hillside Memorial Park are sites
for Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene, Michael Landon,
and Dinah Shore, among others. Marilyn Monroe is buried
at Westwood Memorial Park, as are Truman Capote, Burt Lancaster,
Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Roy Orbison, Natalie Wood, and
Darryl F. Zanuck, among others.
Dodger Stadium
Seating 56,000, this cantilevered stadium hosts baseball
action typically from early April through early October,
along with other events throughout the year.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
This elegant 3,197-seat multipurpose theater is home to
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera and Master Chorale.
Farmers Market
Opened in 1934, this historic open-air market offers acclaimed
restaurants and cafes, fresh meats, poultry, seafood, produce
and flowers.
Grand Central Market
In operation since 1917, more than 50 food stalls with produce,
meats, spices and fast food reflect the region’s multicultural
heritage.
Graumans Chinese Theatre
Also called Mann’s Chinese Theatre, first-run movies
shown at this renowned theater are upstaged for many fans
by the courtyard famed for its handprints and footprints
of Hollywood legends, dating from when Mary Pickford and
Douglas Fairbanks participated in the first ceremony on
April 20, 1927. Among scores of prints are those of Fred
Astaire (Ceremony 42 on Feb. 4,1938), Humphrey Bogart (Ceremony
77 on Aug. 21, 1946), Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson (Ceremony
113 on Sept. 26, 1956), Natalie Wood (Ceremony 118 on Dec.
5, 1961) and Nicolas Cage (Ceremony 182, Aug. 19, 2001).
Hollywood Entertainment
Museum
This is “the” place for celebrating the entertainment
art of film, television, radio, sound recording and new
media. Awaiting are memorabilia, exhibits, a six-minute
multi-screen video and a studio backlot tour, culminating
in visits to original sets for Star Trek: The Next Generation,
the X-Files, and Cheers.
Hollywood Guinness World
of Records
Catch up on world records for amazing facts, feats, and
achievements with film, video, special effects and animated
displays. Visitors can access trivia through hands-on interaction.
Knotts Berry Farm
Once an actual berry farm, this 160-acre theme park is packed
with world class rides,family shows and attractions including
the GhostRider wooden roller coaster, Supreme Scream (30-stories
up, 3 seconds down), and high-octane thrills of Xcelerator,
sending riders from 0-to-80 mph in 2.3 seconds. For a slower
pace, try Camp Snoopy, home to the Peanuts gang.
Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOCA)
MOCA presents permanent collections and thematic exhibitions
of international scope with paintings, sculpture and environmental
works created since 1940.
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Considered the birthplace of Orange County, Mission San
Juan Capistrano was founded more than 200 years ago and
today stands as a monument to California’s multicultural
history embracing Native American, Spanish, Mexican and
European heritage. Visitors hear tolling of century-old
bells while walking down worn paths amid 10 acres of lush
gardens and fountains cloistered by adobe walls. Within
are Padres Quarters, soldiers barracks, and the Great Stone
Church.
Museum of Flying
Open-air tarmac exhibits include flight-ready WWII aircraft
and other historic craft including the 1924 Douglas World
Cruiser New Orleans and more.
Museum of Tolerance
To get a better handle on discrimination, dynamics of racism
and prejudice, the struggle for civil rights, and events
leading up to the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, head for
the Museum of Tolerance, an educational arm of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. A gift gallery stocks one-of-a-kind items
from around the world.
Natural History Museum
of Los Angeles County
Founded in 1913, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County is a national powerhouse in research, exhibitions
and education, safeguarding more than 33 million artifacts.
The Discovery Center has hands-on natural history specimens
and the Insect Zoo crawls with live bugs from around the
world. Permanent exhibits include fossils and dinosaurs,
exquisite gems and minerals, grand dioramas, a California
history hall, and a stunning Native American hall.
Page Museum at the La
Brea Tar Pits
Skeletons of saber-toothed cats, mammoths and dire wolves
roaming the LA basin thousands of years ago await at this
world-class fossil museum. Rancho La Brea is one of the
world’s richest fossil deposits and the sticky asphalt
(commonly referred to as "tar") has trapped and
preserved more than three million fossils, many found in
pristine condition.
Paramount Studio Tour
Paramount Studios, the only major classic studio still in
Hollywood, stands rich in history and tradition while continuing
to set global entertainment standards. No two-hour guided
tour is precisely alike because of production activity spontaneity.
Encounters with celebrity are not infrequent, since this
is where they work.
Petersen Automotive Museum
Tour
From the fast lane to memory lane, automobiles marking milestones
in American culture link Detroit and Hollywood including
cars once owned by the stars from Steve McQueen’s
1956 Jaguar XKSS and Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 356-C
Cabriolet to Eric Clapton’s 1940 Ford Coupe.
Sunset Boulevard
Linking gritty downtown Hollywood with palatial Beverly
Hills, Sunset Boulevard -- a thoroughfare winding from downtown
L.A. roughly 20 miles to the Pacific -- ranks as one of
the world’s illustrious streets, helped along by the
1950 movie starring Gloria Swanson (followed by Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s 1993 musical with Glenn Close) as fading
film legend Norma Desmond. In the ‘60s, the street
inspired television’s 77 Sunset Strip, and the final
scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall was at a sidewalk
café along Sunset Strip. Dozens or so attractions
remaining include the KCET Studios offering guided tours
and the Hollywood Palladium, a stage for diverse performers
from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead
and the Who. At the corner of Sunset and Vine is the Cinerama
Dome theatre and at 6660 Sunset Boulevard is Designer Donuts,
favorite of the stars and caterer to the studios, part owned
by Steven Spielberg.
UCLA at the Armand Hammer
Museum of Art & Cultural Center
Works by Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, and other masters are
part of permanent collections shown on a rotating basis.
Major traveling exhibits, music, dance, poetry and gallery
talks are also big draws.
Universal Studios Hollywood
Allowing access close enough to hear the cameras rolling,
Universal Studios Hollywood provides glimpses of how today’s
biggest films are produced. Then visitors get more thrills
on rides of favorite movies from the monster plunge on Jurassic
Park – The Ride to The Mummy Returns: Chamber of Doom
and more.
Warner Brothers Tours
Starting with a film covering 75 years of Warner history,
get an inside peek at how Hollywood magic is made on this
immense lot with more than 30 soundstages, some 300 editing
rooms, seven screening theaters and a two-million gallon
tank for filming water scenes. The museum has Best Picture
Academy Awards, scripts, props from movies like Casablanca
and the Maltese Falcon, and communiques including a complaint
from Bette Davis moaning to Jack Warner on how she was being
asked to work too hard. Outside the museum, open-air trams
take visitors to some of more than 20 acres of sets including
that of Friends.
Wells Fargo History Museum
In 1852, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo founded a company
that has become a legendary part of America. Take a look
at Wells Fargo stagecoaches and more in five major exhibits
covering more than 150 years of Wells Fargo history, including
a video presentation in the museum theater.
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