Conflicting images of Los Angeles spark and flicker across our television and movie
screens: the glamour of Hollywood and gang violence, fun in the sun and smog, fast cars and
snarled traffic.From what nonresidents can gather, Los Angeles is a land of disaster and style, of
earthquakes and movers and shakers.Its residents seem to adjust to a rhythm that alternates
between stress and relaxation, but out-of-towners-fortunately-tend to experience much
more of the latter than the former.
It’s possible that Los Angeles is a figment of its own imagination.No other city studies
itself so intently – on film, television and in glossy magazines.LA is where the American Dream
is manufactured, and if you’re not prepared to embrace the dream, you’ll doubtless find it filthy,
irritating, frightening or just plain dumb. But if you long to stand in the footsteps of stars and
breathe their hallowed air, you’ve come to the right place. In this town, game show hosts are
household names and nobodies erect billboard shrines to themselves.
It may seem like you’re still in California, but spend some time in L.A. and you’ll see that
it’s sometimes not even on the same planet.Sure, the money looks the same, but what it can buy
in this town-dreams-is currency you can’t get anywhere else.Think you speak the language?
That’ll change once you get yourfirst “wazzzup” or “let’s do lunch.” Los Angeles is a fusion of
magic kingdoms, galaxies of stars,boulevards of broken dreams and a conceptthat makes
this city its own world.
Traveling through Los Angeles you;re hit with multitudes of images of all varieties.You
see the piercing skyline of downtown Los Angeles.The picturesque view of the city from the
Hollywood sign.The spectrum of culture through the streets, the diverse art and architecture that
changes from location to location and the st…