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Los Angeles: Arts District, Dodger Stadium, Gamble House
Los Angeles, California, US · 6 stops · 19.6 mi (32 km) · about 58 min driving · 14 spoken stories
For architecture and street art lovers, this 58-minute drive takes you from Union Station's 1939 Moderne masterpiece through downtown murals and up to classic views of Dodger Stadium and the Rose Bowl, ending in Old Pasadena's restored 1920s commercial blocks.
Photo: Ted Eytan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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From Union Station, Los Angeles to Old Pasadena
The stops
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Union Station
Los Angeles Union Station is the main railroad station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station, Central Station, and Salt Lake Station.
“We're starting in a building that's worth the trip all by itself.”
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Los Angeles Arts District
The Arts District is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States. The city community planning boundaries are Alameda Street on the west which blends into Little Tokyo, First Street on the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and Violet Street on the south.
“Welcome to the Arts District, the neighborhood on the eastern edge of downtown, running from Alameda Street over to the Los Angeles River.”
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Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is a ballpark in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million.
“Here's the overlook you came for.”
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Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium located in Pasadena, California, United States. Opened in October 1922, the stadium is recognized as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering landmark.
“The Rose Bowl opened in October of nineteen twenty-two, built by the Tournament of Roses Association and designed by the noted Pasadena architect Myron Hunt.”
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Gamble House
The Gamble House, also known as the David B. Gamble House, is a historic American Craftsman home in Pasadena California designed by the architectural firm of Greene and Greene. Constructed in 1908–1909 as a winter home for David B.
“This is the one architects make pilgrimages for.”
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Old Pasadena
Old Pasadena, often referred to as Old Town Pasadena or simply Old Town, is the original commercial center of Pasadena, a city in California, United States, and had a latter-day revitalization after a period of decay.
“We finish in Old Pasadena, the city's original commercial center, which grew fast in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, fell into decay, and then came back so well that it's considered one of the best examples of downtown revitalization in the United States.”
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