They're All Over The Place!

To quote Moby Dick the Musical, "Obsession isn't just a perfume"!

George C. Page Museum

A part of the Hancock Park where the La Brea Tar Pits are is a museum dedicated to the discoveries from excavating the tar pits.

I mostly went in to get a couple of smashed pennies, but I ended up going through the museum and thoroughly enjoyed my time there.

La Brea Tar Headache

I did not really know what to expect when I went to the La Brea Tar Pits, but I wasn't expecting a normal looking park.  Aside from the horrible smell of petroleum and the black sticky puddles, it looked like any other city park.

It was pretty cool to watch the tar bubble up.

In a couple of places throughout the park, there are old and current excavation sites.  One of them is set up with a viewing area for the general public.

They set it up in a way that you can look into the pit and see different colored flags next to different types of bones and then look at a map to see what type of animal the bones belong to.

If only they were real!

(The birds were real)

Walking through the La Brea Tar Pits is really interesting, but just make sure you have some Advil if you do.  That smell gave me such a headache!!

One Last Stroll Through The Theatre District

Before leaving Los Angeles, I took one last stroll through the old theatre district to get some better photographs.

This greenish building does not have a theatre, but supposedly Johnny Depp has a residence there.

The disappointing part of the theatre district tours that I took was the fact that we did not go into most of the theatres.  The United Artists Theatre was the one I most wanted to go into.  The historical photographs that I found showed that the auditorium of the theatre is so ornate and cool, but alas.  Actually the tour guide told us that the theatre was for sale.  If only I had had $10 million!

If the theatre below looks familiar, well it is because the Disney Imagineers copied it for one of the shop facades in Disney's Hollywood Studios!