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Places Continued from page 13 Kodak Theatre 6801 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 308-6300. Inside the Hollywood & Highland complex. Home of the Acad- emy Awards. Guided tours offered every half hour Mon-Fri 10:30am-4pm, Sat-Sun 8:30am-10:30am. Tours depart every half hour from level 2 Entrance. Call (323) 308-6333 for reservation or email at groupesales@kodakheatre.com for groups. General admission: $15. Cirque du Soleil's Iris, ongoing. www.kodaktheatre.com (see Theatre) KTLA TV (Sunset Bronson Studio) 5800 Sunset Blvd., (323) 460-5500. Original Warner Bros. Studio where in 1927 the Lucille Ball At 100 & 'I Love Lucy' At 60, the current exhibition at the Hollywood Museum, is on view thru Nov 30. Photo: Casey Rodgers/AP Images for CBS DVD Hollywoodland Stone Gates Beachwood Dr. at the entrance of Hollywoodland real estate development. Built of rock quarried from Griffith Park, the gate was designated a mon- ument in 1968. Beachwood Village was immortal- ized in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers as the set for a town of zombies. Hollywood Wax Museum 6767 Hollywood Blvd., (323) 462-8860. Oldest wax museum in U.S. exhibits 180 favorite stars in scenes from their films. Ask about combination ticket with Guinness World Records Museum. Hours: Sun-Thurs 10am-midnight, Fri-Sat 10am-1am www.hollywoodwaxmuseum.com Hollywood Wilshire Y.M.C.A. 1553 N. Schrader, (323) 467-4161. Serving Hol- lywood for over 75 years. YMCA has undergone an $8 million renovation thanks to the fundraising efforts of volunteers and Tim Allen "Home Improvement". L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition 6331 Hollywood Blvd., in the historic Hollywood Guaranty Building, (323) 960-3511. Permanent exhibition retracing the life of the founder of Scien- tology. Open daily 10am-10pm. Janes House 6541 Hollywood Blvd. The last surviving Queen Anne- style Victorian residence along the Boulevard. From 1911-1926, it was the Misses Janes Kindergarten School where children of Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin attended. KCET/Channel 28 4401 Sunset Blvd., (323) 666-6500. Studio has been in continuous use since 1912: Essanay Company, the Kalem Co., Monogram Pictures, Allied Artists and now KCET Public Television. A historic landmark, the original 1920 soundstages and brick buildings still re- main. Allied Artists Studios, The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and Invasion of the Body Snatchers were made here in 1952. www.kcet.org The Knickerbocker Hotel 1714 Ivar Avenue. Built in 1925, it was a glamorous hotel popular with celebrities. Errol Flynn lived here when he first came to Hollywood and both Frank Sina- tra and Elvis Presley stayed many times. Harry Hou- dini stayed here and his widow held a séance on the roof in 1936. – Director D.W. Griffith (Birth of a Na- tion and Intolerance) lived here a mostly forgotten man until his death in 1948. Now a senior residence. 14 DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD / FALL 2011 Las Palmas Hotel 1738 N. Las Palmas, (323) 464-9236. Julia Roberts' humble digs before business with Richard Gere moved her "up- town" to Beverly Hills in Pretty Woman. Also Kramer's resi- dence when he moved temporar- ily from New York to Hollywood on TV's Seinfeld. Los Angeles Fire Department Museum & Memorial 1355 N. Cahuenga Blvd., (323) 464-2727. The Los Angeles Fire Department houses its historic fire fighting collection dating back to the 1880's in the 1930 Old Hollywood Fire Station No. 27. Out- door sculpture memorializes fallen firefighters. Open Sat 10am-4pm. Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens 5333 Zoo Drive, (323) 644-4200. At Griffith Park.Where the real wildlife is! One of the world's finest zoos. Open daily 10am-5pm. (See FAMILY) first sound movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was made. After the advent of sound, studios needed more space, and Warners moved to Burbank, using the studio for production of cartoons Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. In the late '40s, the studio became KTLA, one of the nation's first TV studios. Lake Hollywood A glimpse of this mountain "lake" nestled in the hills will make you forget that you're in a major city. Used as a location for countless movies and TV shows - a replica of the dam cracked and burst in the movie Earthquake. Superb view of Holly- wood Sign. Sculptures at base of the dam. Lake Hollywood Drive. Daily 5am-Sunset. Madame Tussauds Hollywood 6933 Hollywood Blvd., (323) 467-8277. Get up close and personal with stars and famous personali- ties from the past and present. Hollywood's newest attraction, dates to 1770 and the original Madame Tussaud. Interactive fun for the entire family. Hours: Daily 10am-8pm except the Sunday of the Acad- emy Awards ceremony. www.madametussauds.com Magic Castle 7001 Franklin Ave., (323) 851-3313. 1909 Gothic mansion, once home to actress Janet Gaynor, now world-famous private club for magicians. Operated by the Academy of Magical Arts, a nonprofit organiza- tion of 5,000 magicians and magic fans for over 40 years. www.magiccastle.com Max Factor Building (See Hollywood Museum listing) 1660 N. Highland Ave. Opened in 1935 with a "premiere" attended by Claudette Colbert, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. Melrose Avenue A unique collection of restaurants, nostalgia shops, and boutiques with the newest and best of fashion for a hip and trendy look at what's hot in L.A. Mole-Richardson® Museum of Lighting 900 N. La Brea Ave. (323) 851-0111. A history of the evolution of lighting within the motion pic- ture industry. The Mole-Richardson Company has been designing and manufacturing lighting in Hol- lywood since 1927. Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm. www.mole.com Moving Murals: George Sportelli has relocated his iconic Tony Curtis Hollywood Freeway mural to Bronson just north of Hollywood Blvd. replacing the Johnny Cash mural, also by Sportelli, which was also moved to Las Palmas across from the Frank Sinatra mural. of interest Montecito Apartments 6650 Franklin Ave. Fine example of art deco style with Mayan influence, listed in National Regis- ter of Historical Places. Was home to James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, George C. Scott, Ben Vereen and Ronald Reagan. Now a residence for seniors. Mulholland Fountain Los Feliz Blvd. and Riverside Dr. Dedicated August 1, 1940 as a memorial to William Mulholland, the man who built the 238-mile-long aqueduct that brought water to L.A. from the Owens River Valley. Its location marks the spot where the young Irish immigrant lived near the L.A. River as it flowed to the small pueblo that was Los Angeles.