West Hollywood & Hollywood - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

By Andrew Delaplaine

A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in West Hollywood (also known as WeHo) as well as world-famous Hollywood itself. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
 

“We never left the WeHo area except to do a studio tour. Used this guide extensively.” –Felicia G., Wichita

“Delaplaine has a guide that encompasses all of L.A., as well as little break-out guides like this one for Beverly Hills and another one for Downtown. We have used the one for Downtown and this one and find them very satisfactory. The bigger guide is harder to use than the ones that focus on a particular area.” ---Bill K., Ocala

“The Delaplaine guide books ‘cut to the chase.’ You get what you need and don’t get what you don’t.” –Wilma K., Seattle

=LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe

= RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable.

=PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Sep 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536557688

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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WEST HOLLYWOOD

& HOLLYWOOD

The Delaplaine

2017 Long Weekend Guide

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Andrew Delaplaine

NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.

Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine

Senior Writer - James Cubby

Gramercy Park Press

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1 – WHY HOLLYWOOD & WEST HOLLYWOOD?

Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT

Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY

Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT

Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE

Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO

Chapter 7 – STUDIO TOURS

Chapter 8 –  SHOPPING & SERVICES

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Chapter 1

WHY WEST HOLLYWOOD

& HOLLYWOOD?

The entertainment capital of the world, as they call it here, is Hollywood. It’s hard to imagine visiting L.A. without swinging through this part of town. The three streets that matter are Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard and Melrose Avenue. All three are worth seeing. Hollywood Boulevard is known for its entertainment history, Sunset for its clubs and nightlife and Melrose for shopping, nightlife and a little bit of everything else, for want of a better way to put it.

Hollywood was founded as an independent city in 1903 and voted to merge with the City of Los Angeles in 1910. That same year also saw the birth of the Southern California motion picture industry when D. W. Griffith relocated his Biograph Company, sparking a westward migration of East Coast filmmakers. As movies exploded in popularity in the 1910s and '20s, the name Hollywood became synonymous with the Industry. In the decades following World War II, Hollywood's glitz and glamour began to fade as most of the leading film studios moved to other places.

In the 1980s, Hollywood was considered one of the worst neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The 1990s, however, saw the beginning of community redevelopment efforts, and today Hollywood is once again one of the region's most vibrant areas.

Paramount is the only major studio still headquartered in Hollywood, but the area nonetheless remains an important center of the entertainment industry with its myriad production and broadcast facilities. Other affiliated businesses include Sunset-Gower Studios, Hollywood Center Studios, Raleigh Studios, Jim Henson Studios (a subsidiary