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The downtown art deco and Broadway theater tours get you exclusive access into now privately owned and/or disused beacons of the city's gloriously ostentatious 1920s, 30s and 40s.

The Angeleno Heights tour is a relaxed stroll around the city's first middle class suburb, several streets of charming Victorian wood-framed houses perched above the freeways and steel monoliths of downtown. Other tours take in San Pedro, USC, and downtown at night. Book via the conservancy's website at www.laconservancy.org]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9180 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9175 Yuca Taco Stand www.ericgarcetti.org/blog/000039.php
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