08.10.07

Walking in LA

Posted in Anything goes, Uncategorized at 10:56 am by Administrator

I had taken a few pictures of the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on Hollywood and Ivar last weekend to include in my mini tour blogging of LA. But I haven’t had the time to put them up until now. So here they are. The first one is of Amoeba Records on Hollywood. It’s located right across the street from where the Hollywood Farmer’s Market is held each Sunday from around 7-2PM (or that might be 1PM, erp!)

Amoeba is for music and movie lovers. They’ve got one of the best selections around. I believe they have another location in San Francisco on Haight Street. Just off to the left of the picture a little glimpse of the Cinerama Dome can be seen. Below is another picture of the Cinerama Dome. This has been here for years. Okay, here I go dating myself again. . . To give an clue, I saw the movie “Airplane” there years ago when I was just a young whipper snapper. That was when all those “disaster” movies like Earthquake, Towering Inferno, Jaws, etc. were big hits and movie lines were so long they wrapped around the blocks. It’s been jazzed up a bit, but the “dome” is still the same.

Then just across the street from that is the Los Angeles Film School. Here’s a pic of me on the side of the building with their “graffiti” laden advertisement for their recording and film schools.

Then just off to the left of the picture walking in the direction the cars are pointing is the weekly Hollywood Farmer’s market. They’re here every Sunday morning and cover about two blocks. The street is closed off from street traffic for the morning for local farmers to sell their produce. It’s reopened in the afternoon when the market closes up. Here are a couple shots.

There’s always a lot of customers and foot traffic during the market hours. Last week was appreciation week for local farmers. Here’s a couple more shots.

Stalls are lined up along both sides of the street. Here’s one on the other side walking up Ivar.

And another shot looking farther up north on Ivar.  There are more produce vendors up that way including free-ranged chicken eggs and plants/herbs.  At this intersection to the right and left there are prepared food vendors and a few non-food items for sale.

Since I am health conscious, I thought that the open air farmer’s market was worthy of mention on my blogging tour. This market is one of the best sources of fresh, organic produce for us Los Angelinos. Fortunately, we have other good markets here, too, like Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Erewhon, VP, and I think a new one is due soon called Sprouts. And of course, I must not forget the other good open air markets like the one in Santa Monica by the beach on Wednesdays in the AMs on Arizona. There are others, but these two are my favorites.

Have a great day!

Marlakins

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