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Lloyd Wright. Rumor says that a shadow of its former self. The
material for the building was western end of the Miracle Mile
taken from the set of Douglas has fared better. With its five
Fairbanks Sr’s movie Robin Hood. museums, including the Los
The Edmund D. Edelman Angeles County Museum of
Hollywood Bowl Museum Art (LACMA), the area is now
explores the site’s rich history known as Museum Row.
through videos, old programs The largest encyclopedic
and posters, and memorabilia art museum west of Chicago,
of the artists who have come LACMA offers a comprehensive
here, from violinist Jascha survey of the history of world
Heifetz to the Beatles. art, with a collection of over
100,000 objects dating from
the prehistoric to contemporary
times. Collections include pre- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Columbian stone objects, (LACMA), Miracle Mile
Islamic art, and a wide selection
of European and American detailed displays of vintage
decorative arts, paintings, and cars, old showrooms, and cars
sculpture. Especially impressive of film-stars, such as Rita
are its collection of scrolls and Hayworth’s 1953 Cadillac and
ceramics from the Far East. Clark Gable’s Mercedes-Benz.
Nearby, the Page Museum Its other exhibits include a
Hollywood Bowl, nestling in the at the La Brea Tar Pits has over 1920s garage; an opulent 1930s
Hollywood Hills one million fossils discovered car showroom; and a 1950s
at the La Brea Tar Pits. The tar, drive-in restaurant. Farther
formed some 42,000 years along, the Craft and Folk Art
q Farmers Market ago, entrapped and killed Museum, houses more than
animals who came here 3,000 folk art and craft
Map D3. 6333 W 3rd St. Tel (323) 933-
9211. Open 9am–9pm Mon–Fri, to drink water. objects from around the
9am–8pm Sat, 10am–7pm Sun. Their bones were world. These range
Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. then fossilized. For from objects as
7 ∑ farmersmarketla.com centuries the tar was diverse as 19th-
used by the Native century American
During the Great Depression Americans, Mexicans, quilts to contemp-
in 1934, a group of farmers and Spanish to water- African mask at the orary furniture and
began selling their produce proof baskets and Craft Museum African masks.
directly to the public in a field roofs. In 1906,
at the edge of town. Since then, geologists discovered the E LACMA
Farmers Market has been a largest collection of fossils 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Tel (323) 857-6000.
favorite meeting place for of mammals, birds, reptiles, Open 11am–5pm Mon, Tue & Thu;
Angelenos. Bustling with stalls plants, and insects from the 11am–8pm Fri; 10am–7pm Sat & Sun.
and shops selling everything Pleistocene Epoch ever found Closed Wed, Thanksgiving, Dec 25.
from fresh produce to antiques in one place. The only human & (free 2nd Tue of month & after
and T-shirts, the market also skeleton found in the pits is 5pm). 7 = 8 - ∑ lacma.org
has some of the best cafés and that of the “La Brea Woman.” E Page Museum at the La Brea
restaurants in the city. A hologram changes her from Tar Pits
a skeleton to a fully fleshed 5801 Wilshire Blvd. Tel (323) 934-7243.
person and back again. The Open 9:30am–5pm daily. Closed Jan
w Miracle Mile Peterson Automative Museum 1, Jul 4, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & (free
traces the evolution of the first Tue of month, except Jul & Aug).
Map D4. Wilshire Blvd between La 7 8 = ∑ tarpits.org
Brea & Fairfax Aves. n 685 S Figueroa nation’s car culture with
St, (213) 689-8822; 6801 Hollywood
Blvd, (323) 467-6412.
Developer A.W. Ross bought
18 acres (7.2 ha) of land along
Wilshire Boulevard in 1920
and built an upscale shopping
district, with wide streets meant
for cars and Art Deco buildings,
earning it the name “Miracle
Mile.” Today, dotted with
grocery stores, this stretch is Model of La Brea Tar Pits in the Page Museum

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