Obligatory Oscar Post
Like I said last year, drive anywhere this weekend in L.A. except Hollywood. So, we didn't drive, we took the Metro Redline. Wow, that was a good idea. We found free parking around Vermont/Beverly, and paid $3 for our happy Metro day pass...up to Hollywood & Highland to see the preparations for the Oscars and then off to Universal CityWalk just 'cause it was the next stop on the Redline and we could...so yeah.
Hollywood has chanced so much in the last few years. It used to be such a pit with nowhere to eat other than an icky McDonalds. Now there are all these new shops and cafes (nothing fancy but still better than the icky McDonalds) and ever a Gelato place and yes, the McDonalds, but now an all spiffed up McDonalds. Its a weird combination of old and new with Jimmy Kimmel shooting his show there and the Kodak and then the old Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum and the tshirt shops and tattoo parlors. Finally, I can actually recommend out-of-towners go to the the Graumans Chinese Theater to see it and the hand/footprints out front instead of fearing for their lives if they dared wonder into that area.
Don't read this and think you can show up and watch the red carpet arrivals by jumping the Metro. Nope, not at all. They shut down that station for Oscar Sunday.
But, I will say, even as a jaded native Angeleno, the entire red carpet thang, in person, really is larger than life. And those Oscar statues are ginormous....just in case you were curious.
Oh yeah, blurry much?
Hollywood has chanced so much in the last few years. It used to be such a pit with nowhere to eat other than an icky McDonalds. Now there are all these new shops and cafes (nothing fancy but still better than the icky McDonalds) and ever a Gelato place and yes, the McDonalds, but now an all spiffed up McDonalds. Its a weird combination of old and new with Jimmy Kimmel shooting his show there and the Kodak and then the old Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum and the tshirt shops and tattoo parlors. Finally, I can actually recommend out-of-towners go to the the Graumans Chinese Theater to see it and the hand/footprints out front instead of fearing for their lives if they dared wonder into that area.
Don't read this and think you can show up and watch the red carpet arrivals by jumping the Metro. Nope, not at all. They shut down that station for Oscar Sunday.
But, I will say, even as a jaded native Angeleno, the entire red carpet thang, in person, really is larger than life. And those Oscar statues are ginormous....just in case you were curious.
Oh yeah, blurry much?
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