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Offers a chance to come face to face with the American police state - just don't get mistaken for a terr'rist. Or a tour'ist.

Safer in daylight, more colourful at night.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9218 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9217 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9217 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9121
Warners is far smaller but it is quieter and it is a working studio but most of all the moment you go round the back lots you can immediately see the sets for the familiar 30's and 40's films like Jimmy Cagney's 'Public Enemy', Bogart's 'Maltese Falcon' and Flynn's 'Robin Hood'. While these will mean nothing to the 'Sponge Bob' or 'The Shrek' generation, who will doubtless prefer to enjoy the hussle and bussle of the Universal tour, old fuddy-duddies like me will enjoy the 'WB's. They don't make'm like that anymore. Go enjoy!

Also, don't miss the small movie and TV museums on Sunset, Hollywood and Vine either. Many sadly do, you'll never forgive yourself.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9121 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9222 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9222 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9180
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
and there's a lady from Oaxaca who has a cart (the one under the blue umbrella, usually) on Echo Park Boulevard just south of Sunset Blvd., between Sunset and Echo Park Lake, Wednesdays thru Saturdays from noon until 5:30--she's illegal (so no links here) and delicious!

Traditional blue corn quesadillas with huitlacoche (an earthy black fungus paste that grows on ears of corn), squash blossoms, and other wonderful things to put in, pickled cactus to put on top--$3! Sometimes she doesn't show because she's afraid of the policia, but she's worth taking your chances. Yum.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9175 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9170 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9170