Three Miles of Beach

Santa Monica State Beach is a three miles long, covering 245 acres of sand along Santa Monica Bay. The sandy beach is very wide with rolling waves, and great views of Santa Monica Mountains.

Around Town

As we drove around our driver pointed out buildings that included: Getty Gallery Central Library, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Staples Center, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, and the last photo is a downtown street in Los Angles, The exterior of the Beverly Hill Hotel, Beverly Hills, was featured on the album cover of  The […]

A Very Busy Place

Located on the world-famous Santa Monica Pier, Pacific Park is the only amusement park on the West Coast to be located on a pier. There are dozen rides, games, ocean front restaurants and lots of shopping along the pier. Also located on the pier is the Route 66 End of the Trail Sign. The 2,450 […]

Muscle Men

During the 1930s, 40s and 50s physical fitness boom, muscle men and bathing beauties gathered at the original Muscle Beach located just south of the Santa Monica Pier. The area had exercise equipment and was a popular place for gymnastic and acrobatic exhibitions. After this area closed, the spartan weight pen was built on Venice […]

Exercise, Run and Play

Venice Beach has a famous beachfront rec center with basketball courts, children play area, handball courts, tennis courts, and volleyball courts. Joggers are commonly seen along the beach and street daily and with group runs on the weekends. We found a parking spot on the street and walked under the arches by the Touch of […]

The Surf

Along the Venice Boardwalk there are lots of things to see and do. However, there is a lot of beach there if you just want to enjoy the sun, water and surf.    

All Sort of Stuff to Do and Buy

Stretching about one and a half mile along the Pacific Ocean, the Venice boardwalk is a large part of what makes Venice unique. We found every sort of t-shirt under the sun, from the politically motivated to sexually charged to the plain old Venice Beach t-shirt. There are tattoo and piercing stores, skate and surf […]

Murals

Los Angeles is one of the world’s capitals for street art. As we drove around there were so many. These are just a few we saw. The mural “Luminaries of Pantheism” is a collection of portraits of many great thinkers, artist and writers. Near Venice Beach Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Morrison grace the walls of […]

Multi-million Dollar Houses

Venice Canal Historic District is located between Washington Avenue and Venice Boulevard, just two blocks east of Pacific and is one of Venice’s most affluent neighborhoods. Inspired by Venice, Italy, there are six slim streams with multi-million dollar houses facing the water. The architectural styles range from mid-century modern to storybook cottage, to Roman-inspired villa. […]

Music, Music, Music

Going to a movie at the TCL Chinese Theatre was never on our list of things to do, in fact we did not know they showed movies. When we discovered they were showing LA LA Land it was quickly added. This famous IMAX theatre, has the 5th largest screen and the largest seating capacity (more […]