Los Angeles
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The second-largest city in the United States is too big to cover in one page:
My personal favorite cultural spots in Los Angeles are the Getty Museum (of which I have 60 photos), Zen Garden at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and last but definitely not least, the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA):
The photo at right is of Paul Cadmus's painting Coney Island (1934). It doesn't show working class people at their best (one of them is reading about Adolph Hitler, for example). It is one of the more disturbing paintings that I've seen in a museum. It reminds me a bit of R. Crumb but executed with the vivid colors of oil paint, framed and lit with art museum quality. I wasn't surprised to learn that Cadmus was censured, censored, and threatened with lawsuits over works like this.
See lacma.org for more on this work
The oldest existing Bob's Big Boy, built in 1949, is in Toluca Lake, California (in the San Fernando Valley, adjacent to Burbank) at the intersection of Alameda and Riverside Drive.
If you want the urban experience without the riots and crime, then Universal CityWalk is for you.
The Queen Mary is here. Nobody knows why.
