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Burbank to Long Beach: Warner Bros, Hollywood, Queen Mary
Burbank, California, US · 14 stops · 77.9 mi (125 km) · about 2 h 47 min driving · 34 spoken stories · driven 1×
A 2.5-hour drive from the studio gates through Hollywood's landmarks and downtown's oldest streets to a pier sunset. You'll see the Chinese Theatre, Griffith Observatory, La Brea Tar Pits, Angels Flight, Watts Towers, and the Queen Mary, with food stops at the Farmers Market and Grand Central Market.
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Burbank to Long Beach
The stops
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1
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood
Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, formerly known as First National Studio (1926–1929), Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studios (1967–1970) and The Burbank Studios (1972–1990), is a major filmmaking facility owned and run by Warner Bros. Entertainment in Burbank, California, United States.
“We're starting where the movies actually get made.”
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Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
“Griffith Observatory sits on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood, and the view does all the work.”
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3
TCL Chinese Theatre & Hollywood Walk of Fame
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, known as the Chinese colloquially, and officially branded as the TCL Chinese Theatre for sponsorship reasons, is a movie palace on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
“Here it is, the Chinese, officially the TCL Chinese Theatre.”
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4
Musso & Frank Grill
Musso & Frank Grill is a restaurant located at 6667-9 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The restaurant opened in 1919 and is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet. It is the oldest restaurant in Hollywood and has been called "the genesis of Hollywood".
“Musso and Frank Grill has been at sixty-six sixty-seven Hollywood Boulevard since nineteen nineteen, which makes it the oldest restaurant in Hollywood.”
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5
Original Farmers Market & The Grove
lunchOriginal Farmers Market is an area of food stalls, sit-down eateries, prepared food vendors, and produce markets in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California, on the corner of Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street. It first opened in 1934 and was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 543 in 1991.
“The Original Farmers Market sits right at Fairfax Avenue and Third Street, and it's been feeding Los Angeles since nineteen thirty-four.”
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La Brea Tar Pits
The La Brea Tar Pits constitute an active paleontological research site located in urban Los Angeles, California, United States. Hancock Park was established around a cluster of tar pits formed by natural asphalt that has continuously seeped upward from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
“The La Brea Tar Pits are the strangest thing in the middle of a big city anywhere.”
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Grand Central Market
The Grand Central Market is a historic public market in downtown Los Angeles, California. It has been in continuous operation since its opening in 1917, housed within the Homer Laughlin Building.
“Grand Central Market has been open continuously since nineteen seventeen, inside the Homer Laughlin Building, and it still pulls about two million visitors a year.”
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8
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork.
“The Bradbury Building looks ordinary from the sidewalk and then astonishes you inside.”
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Olvera Street
Olvera Street, commonly known by its Spanish names Placita Olvera and Calle Olvera, is a historic pedestrian street in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the historic center of Los Angeles, California, United States.
“Olvera Street is where Los Angeles began.”
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10
Angels Flight
Angels Flight is a historic 2 ft 6 in narrow-gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named Olivet and Sinai, that run in opposite directions on a shared cable.
“Angels Flight is a narrow-gauge funicular railway on Bunker Hill, built in nineteen oh one by Colonel J.”
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Watts Towers
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
“The Watts Towers are one of the great one-man wonders of the world.”
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Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary is a former British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States.
“The Queen Mary is a former British ocean liner that crossed the North Atlantic for Cunard from nineteen thirty-six to nineteen sixty-seven.”
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13
Naples, Long Beach
Naples is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States, built on three islands located in Alamitos Bay. The islands are divided by canals which open into the bay. Most of the streets on the island have Italianate names. The center of Naples features a large fountain which serves as a popular meeting spot.
“Naples is a Long Beach neighborhood built on three islands in Alamitos Bay, divided by canals that open into the water.”
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Belmont Shore & Belmont Pier
Belmont Shore is a neighborhood in Long Beach, California. It is home to many shops, restaurants, salons, and business offices.
“This is our sunset stop.”
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