Hollywood
Here is the place where one meter square is the largest number of movie stones and other celebrities achieved success in show business. Here is the center industry center industry. Here, during the day, it does not subscribe a life in the bright "city of Angels" you can hear the voices of people that they express themselves on all the adverbs of the planet. Tourists go here in order to get acquainted with the secrets of the film industry. The most important ceremonies, as well as the ideas of new products in the musical sphere are organized in the famous Concert Hall "Kodak", and in another local institution - Chinese Theater - are premierely showing movies.
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Hollywood Alley Stars
What do you associate Los Angeles? Great is the likelihood that with Hollywood, and Hollywood is the place of the accumulation of stars of show business. That is why it goes without saying that the most popular Los Angeles note is an alley of the stars. The number of tourists, every year coming here, to stroll along the alley and see the names of their idols, captured on paving slabs, exceeds ten million. Alley Stars, like any urban landmark, has a rich and interesting story, which continues today - after all, new "stars" appear on it about twice a month.
The appearance of the stars in the city was absolutely planned - the Hollywood Trade Chamber conceived it to create, in order to, on the one hand, to support the popularity of the stars of the film industry, and on the other - to attract tourists to the city and, as a result, additional funds in the city budget. At first there was an idea of using a brass caricature, not the stars with the name of celebrities, but from this plan refused - in view of great difficulty and cost. In this regard, the Hollywood City Hall, not long thought, used as a sample the usual five-pointed star, taking as an example that was located on the ceiling in the Hollywood hotel.
On the stars of the alley, except for the name, there is also any of five characters, which means belonging to a particular sector of the show business industry, is a movie camera, a TV, a radio microphone, a phonograph or two masks.
The first such commemorative slab was set on the Alley of the stars in 1958. And not even one, and at once eight, on which there were the names of the first of those 1550 celebrities, which the Chamber of Commerce was chosen - they later had to appear their own. However, in the history of this Hollywood sightseeing were notaneous pages - such as approximately a fifteen-year-old pause in the sixties and seventies, which was aggravated by litigation. After that, in the history of the stars, the stars came a positive period. Nowadays, there are more than two and a half thousand memorable plates. It should be noted that the installation of such "happiness" will turn into a fairly large amount - will have to pay 30 thousand dollars for the "organizational costs".
This attraction is one of the most "long" - it stretched more than eighteen quarters of the city. The main part of the stars alley lies along the fifteen quarters of the Hollywood Boulevard, but a large number of celebrities showed business led to the appearance of a three-quarter "tail" on Vine Street. To see all the stars on the Alley, you need to be a very tary fan of the film industry. To quickly find the star of his idol, go to the official website of the Alley and find out exactly where it is located. The coordinates of each commemorative plate are addresses of houses, near which they are installed.
Some very outstanding idols fell out of honor to have two memorable stars - for example, John Lennon, Ringo Starre and George Harrison - as participants in The Beatles group and as solo performers. And sometimes here you can see the stars that perpetuate the memory of those who do not apply to any category of show business - for example - the star Mohammed Ali. In this case, his boxing fights equated to theatrical skill.
Did not pay attention and fabulous characters - Mickey Mouse, Snow White with Seven Dwarves, Donald Dacha, Simpsons, Shrek and many other heroes of cartoon films whose stars are adjacent to the memos of actors.
If you want to visit the solemn process of booking a new star, then look in advance in the schedule - on the same official site of sights - and do not forget to come early. As a rule, the ceremony begins at 11:30 and lasts approximately 45 minutes. Free admission. It should be remembered that climbing somewhere higher in order to better see the process - for example, on someone's shoulders, on chairs or stairs - is prohibited. Always when bookmarking the Name Star, the celebrity is present personally.
Chinatown in Los Angeles
In this sunny city of the western coast, Chinatown appeared in the nineteenth century. In our time, its location is Downward, it is less than a mile from the place where it was before.
A more specific date of the foundation of the Chinese district of Los Angeles is approximately the 1880th year. In 1910, there were already fifteen streets and two hundred buildings, where there were people from Middle Kingdom. The Chinese Theater worked here, three temples and a local newspaper. Starting from the 1910s, the initial chinatown experienced a crisis. And in the 1930s, progress began in Novy Chinatown, which was betrayed as an attractive area for tourists. A significant event in Chinatown was the construction of the construction of Central Plaza - Hollywood "version" Shanghai, which was created with the active participation of employees of local film studios.
Chinatown is located north of Downoutaun, it is located between the buildings of the Dodger Stadium baseball stadium and Los Angeles Civic Center. The main streets in Chinatown are Broadway, Hill Street and Spring Street. On the first of them there are a large number of trading establishments, restaurants and markets, there is always a lot of visits.
In this area of the city, not only the Chinese, but also representatives of a large number of other diasporas - Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and others live. The total number of Asians in Chinatown is approximately thirty thousand people.
In this unusual area, one of the main urban attractions - you can always have a time to spend time, trying exotic food or shopping.