Sunday, July 30, 2017
Updates:
Still have not seen:
Still have not seen:
- Observation Deck at City Hall
- Mission Tiki drive in
- Orange Empire Railway Museum - frankly pretty low on the list
- Mount Baldy
- El Matador Beach - work names conference rooms after beaches. Had never heard of many of the beaches before the conference rooms.
- Romulo Pico Adobe - near work
- Nethercutt car museum
- Hiking to Hollywood sign
- Museum of Flying - pretty cool actually. Would recommend to anyone mucking around Santa Monica airport with time to kill.
- Fowler Museum - nothing stood out
- Marion Davies house - a bit disappointing. Same architect as Hearst Castle, but there's really nothing distinctive about the house.
- Oakridge estate - a bit disappointing. Thieves had taken light fixtures and knobs from stove, so what you're left with is a neat old house with nothing inside. Probably the mural on the wall of entertaining room was the best feature.
- Newland house - far better than i expected. Unlike Marion Davies & Oakridge, the house was full of mementos from ~100 years ago. It's the only "old" house in Huntington Beach, so had broad support from the community to house as many period items as possible. Thieves had stuck at some point, but donations replenished the appeal.
- Walt's Barn - no AC, so a bit hot & a bit small, so recommend going on a cooler day and towards the end of the open period. If you go around 2:30 the line is very short. Recommend riding Live Steamers next door afterwards. The only small train where you're sitting in the open & not in "cars", so has a unique appeal.
- The Bat Cave - guess it's something to see. Nothing too special, but not bad if you're wanting to see something in Griffith Park.
