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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Why on earth would ANYONE want to go within 10 miles of Hollywood?
I avoid that area like Chernobyl.
It is most certainly NOTHING like what it used to be years ago. Now it's mostly a ghetto populated by hookers, failed diner-employed "wanna-bes" who live in their cars, bums and drug addicts. Yeech.
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I'm starting to think of you as the guy at the fork in the road who always lies. (At least when it comes to L.A.). There is plenty wrong with Los Angeles, and always has been, but the truth is that Hollywood proper has been getting developed and gentrified non-stop for the last ten years. Hollywood Blvd. and vicinity is just one huge mega-development after another, mostly old buildings being renovated into high-priced residential/commercial properties or new high-rises going up, complete w/ construction cranes, etc.
The area has been cleaned-up in a huge way, PoP's description is about 10 years out-of-date. A couple of the developments are actually quite nice examples of urban renewal of the right kind, particularly the mixed-use res/com giants going up right over red line subway stops such as Hollywood and Western and Wilshire and Vermont. L.A. used to only have development where it was least needed, (like Westwood and the west side), this is a positive trend.
Downtown L.A. has also been booming in this decade w/ lofts and major residential projects, and is more interesting than Hollywood, IMO. Museums, concert halls, Chinatown and great inexpensive restaurants. Plus there is always some great tawdry celebrity trial going on to drop in on. Right now it's the Pelicano trial, the PI to the stars who illegally wire-tapped everyone in town for the last 20 years. He's acting as his own lawyer, (dumb schit), and probably going away for 60-80 years.
Send me a PM if you make it to L.A. and if I'm in town I'll show you the sights. There is actually some old Hollywood left. If you want to see Long Beach, call PoP.
