# For those that have been to Hollywood, LA

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 20, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-that-have-been-to-hollywood-la/807081 "2018-01-20T22:58:21Z")
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### Author: ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-that-have-been-to-hollywood-la/807081/42 "2018-06-22T06:54:15Z")

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> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> I haven’t been to Hollywood in several years, but the last time I was there it didn’t seem so much seedy as a kind of tourist trap. If you’re interested in old movies – not that they don’t still make a lot of new movies in Hollywood as a metonym, then it’s probably worth checking out for an afternoon or a day. Go to a movie at the Chinese Theater, check out Madame Tussaud’s, and have drinks and dinner at Musso & Frank. Depending on where else you want to go in L.A., and on how much you want to spend on a hotel, the Roosevelt might be a good bet.

ETA: We just spent a couple of nights at the Hollywood Roosevelt at the beginning of this month. I have to say I still stand by my original statement. It was crowded with tourists, there’s a Hard Rock Cafe also crowded with tourists, with locals hawking their souvenir-ish wares at them. (The latest fad seems to be that you can have a little sculpture made of your face, instead of just a drawing). All and all everyone seemed to be having a good time and I didn’t notice any scuzzy or sketchy people, nor threatening behavior from anyone.

You want scuzzy, I got a noseful of that a few days ago on the Sprinter from Oceanside to Escondido. In its infinite wisdom, the North County Transit District reduced Sprinter trains from two double-length articulated cars to just one; they may have decided that the passengers weren’t getting the whole spectrum of the public transit experience olfactory-wise, so they would squeeze us all into half the space. There were three or four people on the train that you could basically smell all over the car. Hollywood Boulevard was a pleasant, pastoral memory compared to that.

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