Don Kirkman wrote in message news:<32qdf09l6ulbbd4ai0s4qm02thqf4rg9ao@4ax.com>...
> It seems to me I heard somewhere that brenda wrote in article
> <1ef7b3c0.0407100738.60a23667@posting.google.com>:
>
> >soniasash@hotmail.com (Sonia) wrote in message news:...
> >> Man, all the reviews scared me off a bit. Well I cannot back out since
> >> I already paid for the room through PriceLine. I will stay there with
> >> three other people, so I guess we can handle the dark and scary
> >> parking lot/elevator. As to homeless people, I lived in a few big
> >> cities in Europe, so I know how does it look like.
> >> I hope that my experience won't be too bad.
Particularly if you're traveling as a group, you should do fine.
Downtown LA is an interesting place. It's too bad that the place bugs
out so much by early evening.
> >In Little Tokyo, there is a beautiful Japanese graden that you enter
> >thru an office building - perhaps someone can give more info, but it
> >really is lovely & a breath of fresh air & peace in the middle of the
> >big city. You can also hang out at the New Otani even tho you are not
> >staying there - nice rooftop gardens there & lobby bar.
>
> Little Tokyo has the Japanese American Cultural Center, with a nice
> garden (maybe the one Brenda means)
I was sure that was the one she meant. Go to the building that houses
the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center [JACCL], take the
elevator down to the basement, and follow the signs to the James
Irvine Garden. It feels like you're doing something underhanded when
you do all the things it takes to get to the garden, but the garden
actually is open to the public and it is intended that people come
visit the place.
> [http://tinyurl.com/3nbyq], and also
> the Japanese American National Museum [http://www.janm.org/],
There's a small but very effective exhibit there now, "September 11:
Bearing Witness to History." It's a Smithsonian exhibit that is
touring the country, and the JANM is the only West Coast stop. The
exhibit runs through August 15.
> mostly
> housed in an old converted Buddhist Temple (however, one done in
> concrete and mortar, not in traditional wood).
The exhibits are now across a walkway in an all-new building.
> The exhibits document
> the history of Japanese Americans in the US, including the WW II
> internment of all West Coast Japanese Americans. I don't know exactly
> where the Miyako Inn is, but both are probably within walking distance
> from it.
Other major downtown attractions includ Olvera Street [historic,
mission-era buildings and lots of vendors], the Museum of Contemporary
Art [one branch of this is the Geffen Contemporary collection, right
next door to JANM; another is on Grand Street, not far from the Disney
Concert Hall], the Roman Catholic Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels,
and Grand Central Market. Architectual points of interest would
include City Hall, Union Station, and the Bradbury Building.
There's a visitor information center located near 7th and Figueroa,
right above where the Blue line light rail line meets the Red line
subway. Also at 7th and Figueroa, you can catch the F-bus of LADOT
DASH, which will take you down to Exposition Park, where the Los
Angeles County Natural History Museum, the Aerospace Museum, the State
Science Center, and the Afro-American museums are located. You'll
also be near by the LA Memorial Coliseum and the University of
Southern California.
Two blocks north of 7th & Figueroa,[on 5th Street], you can catch MTA
rapid bus 720, which runs out along Wilshire Blvd. A half-dozen stops
or so takes you to the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the Page
Museum [a branch of the County museum of natural history].
TK |