At the southeast corner of the plaza is Ackerman Union, a modern building distinguished by ship-like arched wood beams atop the roof. The UCLA store occupies the first floor of the building and offers just about anything a student would ...
The book also highlights the people who made the landmarks famous: the infamous water engineer William Mulholland; the convicted murderer and philanthropist Colonel Griffith J. Griffith; Charles Lummis, who walked from Cincinnati to Los ...
Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.
Updated, this second edition is a complete guide to the most interesting buildings, parks and plazas, public art, museums and restaurants in nine different districts.
In this first-ever book to explore the 10,000-steps lifestyle in Los Angeles, author Paul Haddad takes readers on a journey through the city's streets, beaches, mountains, rivers, reservoirs, and parks.
Completely updated and expanded, the second edition of this award-winning book features expanded trips with dozens of additional points of interest, useful new information, and four new trips that are family-friendly.
This new guide details trails in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the world’s largest urban national park stretching from the Pacific Coast right into Hollywood itself; the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Padres National ...
A former neighbor, Sol Shankman, showed me that the key to living well into your nineties was to greet each day like a new beginning. I was privileged to often accompany him and soak up his wisdom during his daily hikes into Griffith ...
Stairway Walks in Los Angeles
Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic ...