Originally Posted By darthtiki So I'm coming down for my orientation at CSUF next week and making it a long weekend by visiting a friend of mine in lovely and beautiful Burbank. The thing is my friend works until 10:30 at night one night and the next day until 3:30 (I'm probably going to Universal that day). So does anyone have any good ideas on what to go and do? I know Pink's is on my to do list because I got a massive craving for their chili dogs.
Originally Posted By Dave Forget pinks..... got to Tommys. Even Tommys Hot Dogs are better then pinks
Originally Posted By avromark Or just take a side trip to Detriot that weekend and experience a Coney dog..
Originally Posted By seanyoda Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D starts at the El Capitan on the evening of Thursday the 19th. See <a href="http://www.elcapitantickets.com/" target="_blank">http://www.elcapitantickets.co m/</a> for showtimes and to purchase tickets.
Originally Posted By knightnfrees There's the La Brea Tar Pits (not too far from Pink's). There's The Grove, a high-end 'outdoor' shopping mall with a movie theatre. There's the Beverly Center, a high-end 'indoor' shopping mall with a movie theatre (Really bad theatre, btw) Up in Burbank, you could take the NBC tour. If you're into bowling, there's the Pickwick. L.A. Zoo / Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum. Just to name a few.
Originally Posted By darthtiki I've did the tar pits on my last trip in August, I love Tommy's too. I'm leaning on doing Nightmare or the NBC tour
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: My sisters and I will be in Hollywood, too, over the Thanksgiving Holidays. We intend to take the Kodak Theatre Tour with friends. Does anyone know what that is like? ORWEN: We were actually there this past May--with some friends from Morva--who are also coming with us again in Thanksgiving. We were thinking of doing that Cheapy looking WAX Museum, too, but hear it's overpriced. We managed to be at the El Capitan when they had the special discussion panel for THE LITTLE MERMAID. Even spoke with Alan Menken--who said we looked familiar to him-- ORGOCH: --nice ta know even HE suffers from nightmares, too! ORWEN: Shush!! Anyway, we have also eaten at the California Pizza Kitchen and that was nice. But is there anything else to do near Grahman's Chinese Theatre? ORDDU: We were actually inside that haunted hotel near Grahman's. But the name of it escapes us just now. Oh, well! I'm sure we'll be able to scare up SOMETHING to keep us busy.
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Originally Posted By alexbook >>The above is a google map to Disneyland<< ...with driving directions from CSUF! I figure if darthtiki is traveling all the way to Fullerton, it's only 7.8 miles further to the Happiest Place on Earth!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss How about the original French Dip sandwich? <a href="http://www.philippes.com/" target="_blank">http://www.philippes.com/</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Just stay north of Wilshire and west of Vine .. everywhere else is a no-man's-land ghetto.
Originally Posted By knightnfrees If you go along Hollywood Blvd., don't go further east than the Pantages. East Hollywood isn't sparkly.
Originally Posted By oc_dean The Pantages theater is really the last landmark .. just before the world ends off at . I try MERCIFULLY to stay away from everything east of it! Fortunately there's a few pockets of good neighborhoods off of Hillhurst and Los Felix. This area is roughly where the original Walt Disney Studios was ... still a nice neighborhood. But any area within an immediate 3 mile radius of downtown LA is "The Badlands". Meaning .. it's really *bad*! It's not good during the night .. and it ain't even good during the day!! And for god-sake ... don't ever wonder into south central LA or East LA!
Originally Posted By smeeeko ^you haven't been downtown lately have you Dean?? *shakes head* there's plenty to do in Downtown LA.. granted you want to be sure where you're going when you're there but there's definitely a lot going on in LA.
