- Yellow Productions presents my top 10 favorite things to
do in downtown Los Angeles. For two of the best cultural
attractions in downtown LA, come up to the top of
the hill on Grand Avenue. The first one is The Broad, it's this contemporary art museum. Admission is free, though you have to get a time ticket on the website to go in. Make sure you do that a bit ahead of time 'cause if not there can be pretty long lines for stand by tickets. The art's really neat, the have this like balloon animal and this really big table. Lots of cool stuff in there, probably worth an hour, an hour and a half inside. And also, just next to The Broad, just this way, is the Walt Disney Concert Hall. And the Walt Disney Concert
Hall is the location of the LA Philharmonic
and you can also take free guided tours and self guided tours of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Most of the guided tours are
typically in the morning, you can check their website to see the times for those as well. Walt Disney Concert Hall with its sweeping metal architecture is somewhat reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House. Take a stroll through downtown
LA's Historic Core district and check out the theaters along Broadway. Broadway, there were 14
original Los Angeles theaters, almost all of them are now defunct, but the architecture is pretty neat. It's cool to see the old awnings, some of them like this one, The Million Dollar Theatre, is used for private events. But a stroll down Broadway
I think is really neat to check out old Hollywood before it moved up to actual Hollywood
where most of the theaters that are still in
operation in LA are today. A really neat site in downtown Los Angeles that's kinda hard to find
is the Bradbury Building, but you're definitely
gonna wanna come in it. It's right behind the Grand Central market and let me show you what's inside. Inside is a beautifully restored 1893 Los Angeles office building. You can come in between
9:00 and 6:00 weekdays, 9:00 to 5:00 on weekends, and admire the splendor of
this 1893 craftsmanship. Actually, this building is famous because the movie Blade Runner
was filmed in this building. For some pretty neat free views of downtown Los Angeles
come into city hall. You can come up to the
tower on the 27th floor and see all of downtown Los Angeles. You come in off Main Street, you pass through several metal detectors, you go up to the 22nd floor, you take another elevator
up to the 26th floor and then you can walk up
here to the 27th floor. Some pretty neat things
you can see up here. You can see Union Station, you can see the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and it's just really neat. It's open air so I like that as well. And it's free, can't beat free. Another really cool part about
the City Hall Observatory is inside the observatory there's this neat velvet-curtained room, you can feel like you're
making a city hall address. Ladies and gentlemen, every hour is now lunch hour. One of my favorite neighborhoods in downtown Los Angeles is Little Tokyo. The central of Little Tokyo is this cute Japanese village with blue roofs. There used to be 30,000
Japanese that live here and now it's only about
five large city blocks, but it's one of the best places to come for tasty Japanese food, Japanese snacks, and just Japanese culture. So if you're in downtown LA, definitely check out Little Tokyo. And make sure you're
hungry when you're here. Just a hop, skip, and a jump or five blocks of those
away from Little Tokyo is the LA arts district. The LA arts district is famous for having big murals of public art. It's kind of an up and coming neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles. The parking is kind of tough here, there's not a whole lot of it, but if you are into public art, wanna take some neat pictures
in front of big murals then check out the LA arts district. This guy here, he wants a hug. Aw, hug. On your way to the LA arts district, stop by the Angel City Brewery. They've got some pretty tasty beers and a public brewing house, they open at 4:00p.m. late into the night. But if you don't like beer, stop here to check out the angel wings. You'll find these angel wings all throughout the LA arts district, they were painted by artist Colette Miller and you can pretend you're
an angel and fly away. If you're hanging around
the LA arts district and you're hungry check out Wurstkuche. As you come in the front door, they've got a refrigerated
case of interesting sausages, of course there's German bratwurst, but there's also some
more interesting items like rattle snake and duck. To wash your sausages down, they've got a big Germanesque
beer hall in the back. If you want dessert, well they've only got sausages here. Right across the street
is a place called Pie Hole which is famous in LA
for pie by the slice. It's not cheap though, those pies are gonna cost
you about six bucks a slice, almost the same price as a
sausage will at Wurstkuche. Visit downtown Los Angeles'
Chinatown district, originally built in 1938 for a home of some of LA's Chinese culture. While this isn't the biggest collection of Chinese culture in LA now, that's over in the San Gabriel Valley, there is a neat little old Chinatown plaza that has these old lantern lights, particularly picturesque at night, still a lot of good
Chinese restaurants too. And in the background you can hear some interesting old Chinese music. They've got a little
Chinatown gate at the front and a statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Republic of China, known to most people as Taiwan. In addition to tasty Chinese, two of you can pick up
some Chinese souvenirs. I'm thinking of getting a nice yellow qipao and a yellow hat, I hear it's my color. What do you think? There's also the Chinatown wishing well where you can wish just
not for generic wishes, but they have these
little plaques and areas that you can wish for
things like good luck, serenity, or down here what I should wish for, to win the lotto and money for vacation. Just between Chinatown and
Union Station is Olvera Street, which is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles National Monument. This is where the city of
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish settlers as a pueblo. So there's kind of like this bandstand, there's often music on weekends. And then the other big
attraction, Olvera Street, is the street directly behind me, this like pedestrian
street that you go down and it's got shops and restaurants. You can get a lot of Mexican souvenirs, Mexican food, and this is also home to Los
Angeles' oldest structure, the adobe that's in there
which is standing since 1818. So once you're done
experiencing your China culture, Chinese culture in Chinatown, you can experience the Mexican
culture on Olvera Street. Take a visit to Union
Station to see one of downtown Los Angeles'
nicest public buildings. If you were in city hall earlier, Union Station is actually much nicer. You can imagine what it
was like to ride a train probably you had to have a bit of money to ride the train back in the day and this is how most people would come into downtown Los Angeles. And it is really quite
a nice train station. I actually think one of the nicest train stations that I've been into, so don't leave downtown LA without checking out Union Station and you can hop on the subway here to take you to other
parts of the city as well. In addition the the nicest building, these seats are some of the nicest seats I've seen in a train waiting area, nice high-back leather seats. And look, pretty relaxing. Take a walk on over to Los
Angeles' LA live district it's where the Staple Center is, the Microsoft Theater, there's a number of restaurants here, Wolfgang Puck is here, and the JW Marriot, the Ritz
Carlton hotels are in the back. This LA live district
is most lively at night with the nightclubs that are here and often the sporting events. LA live is also home to the Grammy Museum and the Grammy Walk of Fame, kind of like the Hollywood walk of Fame, except this walk of fame
is all grammy awards. And there's interesting
video presentations here and just kind of a lively place to be. LA live. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, people give it a thumbs
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