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Memorial to shoes at our hotel overflow parking garage. | Gwen at the historic Tail o' the Pup. | A view of last night's venue, the King King club, from our hotel window. | Lunch in Echo Park, here's its lake. | Not all of it is pretty or inviting, |
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but it has a lovely island | accessed by a bridge. | I'm not sure why a lake would need a lighthouse, but maybe it's so you can find your way to the paddleboat dock. | Unfortunately, the bridge is closed, but the birds are undeterred. | A final look over the lake. |
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Driving away, the mural reminds me of similar ones in the Mission district back home. | The iconic "Randy's Donuts" is easy to spot, but the menu is bewildering. Evidently "raised" means "covered", as in "chocolate-raised". | Henson Studios' main entrance on North La Brea. | The Ripley's Hollywood. | Outside the famous , I see out-of-work superheroes. |
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We hydrate Kibble in the hotel | leaving her on her own recognizance while we head out to see the city lights. | The marquee at the King King. | Neon draws you to a door, but the entrance is actually in the back. | Los Angeles has quite a large number of striking movie theaters, |
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including the delightfully 50s Cinerama Dome, which still boasts a cinerama-compliant (of the famed "filmed in Cinerama" tagline) screen! | And a little further down the block is a familiar site | but much larger than our neighborhood version. | You'd think it'd have been decades since Air India last used this mascot, but you'd be wrong. | The courtyard at Grauman's Egyptian, (one of?) the first movie palace(s) in Hollywood. |