Los Angeles: Things To Do And Places To Go

[Los Feliz Slim]

I've always assumed the Buggy Whip couldn't possibly be good good, I think it's funny good.

My vote for the layover adventure is hanster takes his dad's partner to have a beer and a hotdog and watch the ponies at Hollywood Park. If it were my layover that's what I'd want to do. If you don't want to hang out with the hoi polloi get tickets for the Turf Club.

[suzzer99]

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I've always assumed the Buggy Whip couldn't possibly be good good, I think it's funny good.


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Same with Proud Bird. Prepare for a lot of heavy sauce and stuff swimming in butter. But like I said, my Mom and stepdad thought it was the best place ever.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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I've always assumed the Buggy Whip couldn't possibly be good good, I think it's funny good.

My vote for the layover adventure is hanster takes his dad's partner to have a beer and a hotdog and watch the ponies at Hollywood Park. If it were my layover that's what I'd want to do. If you don't want to hang out with the hoi polloi get tickets for the Turf Club.

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The beer and ponies might be OK but forget the hotdog.

A few years back my brother came to visit so my gf and I took him to Hollywood Park on a Friday night in part to show him a crazed poker room and see a free Berlin concert while taking in the dollar beer and hot dogs the adjoining track was using to promote horse racing to our youth.

We went early and only endured the hour wait for the absolutely pathetic hot dogs (keep in mind I say this as someone who is an advocate of mid-priced boxed wine, two buck chuck bottled wine, and low rent, "bang for the buck" living in general) as an excuse to see just how poorly things like this can be done.

Cliff notes was that about four lines of about 25 people each watched a "fast food" crew who on average were my dead grandparents age methodically assemble about one hot dog per line every ten minutes. The lines never shrank or grew much and remained about 25 people long four wide (with the attrition rate matching the hot dog served rate) as we all watched in morbid fascination.

Then again you might enjoy that sort of thing [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick

[suzzer99]

Yeah the $1 beer line on Friday night is about as much fun. When it gets close the the counter the line just sort of fans out across the counter, then it's every man woman and child to themselves. Not to mention all the people constantly snaking up to get in the fan part of the line, bypassing the long tail. Pretty much as close as you can get to 3rd world chaos that I've seen in LA.

Another fun experience at Hollywood Park was waiting to cash my ticket, looking down at an adorable 7-year old girl, holding some little stuffed animal. I thought, oh that's nice, this is kind of a family place. Then I looked up at her Mom, who just had this glazed, gone, gambleholic look in her eyes. Like she was only barely aware she was clutching something in her hand that she needed to drag around with her. Then the mom drug the daughter off, and I got really sad.

[Los Feliz Slim]

You really haven't seen degeneracy until you've been to Hollywood Park, which is what makes it so awesome. I once saw Kenny Mayne there in an unwashed t-shirt with that same glazed look.

[hanster]

LFS,
The HP pony idea is very exciting, until Suzzer's story came up. He's coming from Shanghai, so that's not exactly what he's looking for. (ALTHOUGH it would be cool).

Suzzer,
You never disappoint me despite failing to find your 3 giggly girls handjobs place in Shanghai. Nudie bar sounds awesome but I also am trying to impress him into landing a job somewhere [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I'm looking into Buggy Whip and Proud Bird at the moment. I also booked a reservation at the Palm last week but I felt it might be a tad too far for a 5-hour layover. How do you guys feel about that place?

[Los Feliz Slim]

I don't think either the downtown or West Hollywood Palms are realistic with that layover (but I do love the Palm). If you're hell-bent on leaving the immediate area of LAX (which I think is a really bad idea) stick to Venice, Marina Del Rey, the beaches, etc. I've had business dinners at the Ritz-Carlton in the marina, that would be a really safe place to go I think.

[Slider]

Decent idea for a thread, but you guys are still slacking!

I've lived in the South Bay by the beach for almost a year now. It's a grat place to live.

Check out the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. 25$ tickets - I took my gf there for the first time last week to see Joe Rogan live. Good food there too.

The beach in Hermosa is always tight in the summer. Lots of Volleyball if you're into that.

3 St. promenade was somewhat meh imo... It was neat though. Probably would have been better if I didn't go with a girl so I could actually walk outside instead of in and out stores every 2 seconds.

Botanical Gardens in Palos Verdes are somewhat nice.. (if you're a girl).

Sea Kayaking is fun. I'm sure some marinas will rent them too you. Went in Redondo and saw a bunch of seals.

The bars in Hermosa are a blast. My favorite by far is Sangria (as it's the only place you can actually move around and dance).

The Golf in LA blows unless you want to pay like 200-300$ per round or play a 6 hour rounds. Trump course was nice though and definitely worth it.

Sports games are always fun. Hopefully people with more experience in L.A. can chime in some new fun places to go.

[CharlieDontSurf]

For movie fans in LA

http://www2.variety.com/screening/la...lt.asp?show=11

note: you don't need to be in a guild to get in...u just have to be willing to wait in line. The better the movie the longer the wait.

[hanster]

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I don't think either the downtown or West Hollywood Palms are realistic with that layover (but I do love the Palm). If you're hell-bent on leaving the immediate area of LAX (which I think is a really bad idea) stick to Venice, Marina Del Rey, the beaches, etc. I've had business dinners at the Ritz-Carlton in the marina, that would be a really safe place to go I think.

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Hm the layover part really worries me, too. When I was in Shanghai over the summer we had dinner at the Ritz-Carlton in Shanghai and it was amazing. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] He stated that burgers and fries will be fine so maybe take him to a nice burger joint. Also, I found out he just has to be at the airport BY 11 PM, not that his flight is departing at 11 PM, I guess that makes things a lot easier, no? And of course, I would love to have a chance to dine at The Palm on business expense [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]. Do you recommend any particular items at the restaurant even if I probably won't make it there this time around?

CDS,
Nice. UCLA also has that kind of screening events.
http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/%7Emelnitz/SCREENINGS.html
They screened American Gangster a week before it came out but there were so many people cutting and I didn't get in.

I will probably check out David Finch and Zodiac again. Really enjoyed that movie. And also very am interested in seeing Charlie Wilson's War.