{"id":3129,"date":"2010-01-15T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2010-01-18T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T03:21:52","slug":"the-griffith-observatory-and-dinner-in-los-feliz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/15\/the-griffith-observatory-and-dinner-in-los-feliz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Griffith Observatory (and dinner in Los Feliz)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to check out the Griffith Observatory, which stands on one of the higher hills in Los Angeles; Aviva’s brother Howard took his family up there and said the views were amazing. We stopped at Wacko on the way – its a cool store for books and odd gifts; I kid you not, there’s a Sweeney Todds Barber Shop nearby – I’m not getting my hair cut there!<\/p>\n

And he was right! We took Iggy along and walked around the observatory; there’s a small museum and a cafe and gift shop. But you go up there for the views of the city. We also saw a blimp flying around.<\/p>\n

On the way home we stopped for dinner at Il Capriccio, 1757 N. Vermont. Good red sauce Italian place with a good sized patio (which we used so we could keep Iggy with us).<\/p>\n

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One of the great views from the Observatory overlooking LA right to the ocean <\/div> <\/div>
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Great place to view the famous Hollywood sign – and a blimp too! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The doors are all decorated in a geometric pattern <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Plynth\" <\/a>
A plynth out front of the Observatory celebrates famous astronomers <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A view of the Observatory building <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sweeney <\/a>
Indeed, this barber shop is near Wacko bookstore <\/div> <\/div>
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Aviva pointed out this image which I took quickly from the car <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We decided to check out the Griffith Observatory, which stands on one of the higher hills in Los Angeles; Aviva’s brother Howard took his family up there and said the views were amazing. We stopped at Wacko on the way – its a cool store for books and odd gifts; I kid you not, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153,143,403],"tags":[657,2356,656],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-los-angeles","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states","tag-griffith-observatory","tag-los-angeles","tag-sweeney-todd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-Ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}