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Wedding Day Emergency Kit Essentials: 7 Tiny Lifesavers
Why Every Bride Needs a Wedding Day Emergency Kit Wedding day emergency kit essentials belong in your bridal tote as surely as your vows belong at the altar. When my…
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Hale Solar Laboratory Pasadena Guide
Welcome to the Hale Solar Laboratory Pasadena Set foot inside the Hale Solar Laboratory Pasadena and you’re instantly whisked back to 1924, when astronomer George Ellery Hale tracked sunspots in…
Will Rogers Beverly Hills: Your Local Guide to Memorial Park Calm
Will Rogers Beverly Hills — a pocket of calm in the city Will Rogers Beverly Hills offers a pocket of calm that feels worlds away from Sunset Boulevard, even though…
Bubble House Pasadena: SoCal Quirky Dome
Bubble House Pasadena: A Dome-Shaped Daydream You Have to See I still remember my first hunt for the Bubble House Pasadena. Cappuccino in hand, I rolled down South Los Robles…
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Celluloid Monument Beverly Hills Guide
Celluloid Monument Beverly Hills: What It Celebrates At the fork of Olympic Boulevard and South Beverly Drive stands the Celluloid Monument Beverly Hills. The 22-foot ribbon of bronze “film” pays…
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Ruddy’s General Store Museum: Palm Springs Time Capsule
Step through the door of Ruddy's General Store Museum and you step straight into 1935. Sun-bleached Palm Canyon Drive is only a few paces away, yet inside, the original wood…
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1883 Schoolhouse Encinitas: A Time-Travel Stop Beside the Pacific
Walking up the gentle slope of F Street, you hear gulls calling above and feel ocean air on your face. A white clapboard building appears ahead. It is smaller than…
Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden: A Hidden Oasis in Pasadena
I’ve lost count of the times Los Angeles noise melted away the second I stepped through the wooden gate on Arlington Drive. If you’re craving that kind of instant calm,…
Tail O’ the Pup Returns to West Hollywood Glory
When a 12-foot fiberglass frankfurter pops into view on Santa Monica Boulevard, you know you’ve hit the right spot. Tail O’ the Pup first wowed Angelenos in 1946 with its…
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Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle: Glamour Meets Mystery in 90210
If Beverly Hills is the crown jewel of Los Angeles, then the Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle is the tiny scratch on that jewel that keeps locals swapping ghost stories over…