Webmaster Access: LA tips. Add yours if you are a local, if you aren't, read on.
 

I wrote this a year or two ago. I revised it for this year's show and posted in on Midget Army. I am sure the other SoCal following here on GFY can add to it, or even give opinions on mine.

All the same, nice to have people coming to our backyard, looking forward to seeing you all.

Hope it helps : )

Full summary of 11 tips, guide to LA


1) ?I booked to LAX but someone told me that is stupid.?

2) ?What is The 405? Why do people call use an article for freeways??

3) ?What is the Valley??

4) ?Will I see any celebrities??

5) ?Should I run to a doorway if there is an earthquake? What do people mean when they say it was a ?roller? or a ?shaker? What is ?earthquake weather?

6) ?What is the deal with calling LA escorts to my hotel room??

7) ?What is actual Hollywood? Why do straight people go to West Hollywood at night when it is a gay area??

8) ?What do people mean when they say ?it feels like Santa Ana today,? or ? the Santa Anas are killing me today???

9) ?Why do people say that LA sucks for nightlife??

10) ?I heard LA has a lot of crime, drive by shootings and that you should stay away from South Central LA?

11) ?What is something really cool to do in LA that is near our hotel??

A Santa Ana just ended here. I miss it already. :-(

Here's a good question: What are taco trucks? Are they safe? What breed of dog do they use?

can we shoot porn in our hotel rooms? LOL

Great Tips Cory as always.

Now, can you tell them where they can find Michael Jackson's Hollywood Star
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/S...elJackson).JPG

Dont go on any freeway between the hours of 8am - 8pm, unless you enjoy traveling at 10 mph all the way to your destination.

Nice advice... LA is unlike most other cities that I have found becuase it is so large and spread out... Most cities have a city "center" but LA has many smaller centers and areas to see instead.

:pimp :pimp :pimp

dude, nothing about FatBurger or In and Out in there????? what is the world coming to???

Best tacos can be found where?


http://www.titostacos.com/

11222 Washington Place
Culver City, Ca. 90230
(310) 391-5780

Just 20 minutes away from the Sheraton Universal Hotel.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

My tip for visitors to LA:

Remember to stop by TOMMY'S BURGERS (the original one...the one with the shack in the logo).

lol good posts thnx

YUM Tommys!! Thats the only restaurant I know of that you can use as an excuse not to go to work the next day... "Sorry, I cannot come in to work today, I had tommys for dinner last night" I have used that and it worked with no questions asked!

Tommys is bomb! There are alot of nice clubs in Hollywood aswell. Club Avalon if you like Dance Music on the Weekends.. :pimp

Nice little writeup, I'll be going for about 2 weeks and it's pretty much my first time other than a 2 nighter a few years ago, so it's a nice little primer...

So how exactly does one leave LAX then at 4:30pm? :1orglaugh I'm assuming there's no quick way :1orglaugh

just stay away from Orange County, We don't need any more riff raff here.... LOL

1. Nobody walks in LA :winkwink:

2. Closest IN -n- Out to WA is about 1/2 mi. away at
3640 Cahuenga Blvd.

sounds like fun!

4:30PM? LOL :1orglaugh

It won't be so bad man.....:1orglaugh

And everyone drives separate :1orglaugh

Get some culture, go to the Getty Museum.

which part?

Johnny Drama: North of Ventura Boulevard is hell's waiting room.

as much as I love titos,the best tacos are mexican made carne asada tacos

"I know, I know, you are too cool to care about seeing a celebrity. I can?t tell you how many times I have heard that. I worked in Hollywood a long time and every time someone said that, the next thing you knew they were falling on the floor when Pauly Shore walked in."

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Anyone who has ever seen a fucking rap video asks..."where is Compton"

p.s. Yes it is shity, no....I wont show it to you!

Fly into Burbank whenever possible. It is worth thwe extra $100 for the ticket over LAX, especially for the Webmaster Access destination.

Mitch

LOL

I get "where is south central...?"

I take them down Pico towards staple center :1orglaugh

Agreed. But I get a lot of people eveyr year flipping out because they booked LAX. I don't think it is worth a lot of pain to change....

santa anas were off the hook yesterday in the valley. they were blowing so hard that i was driving down the street and it literally pushed me almost off the road.

heres a don't for hollywood.

DON'T: Park a car on a residential street while attending an event and expect to find it past 8am the next morning. Any street within a mile of the Hollywood strip is permitted for residents that live there or signed either no parking or 2 hour parking from 8am to 12mid. Either that or theirs those damn signs for street cleaning. I almost lost a car a few weeks back when we went to the rainbow and metal school with xxxjay and pb's crew. Got drunk and said it will be ok, came back and found a bunch of tickets on it. Luckily it was not towed.

santa anas were off the hook yesterday in the valley. they were blowing so hard that i was driving down the street and it literally pushed me almost off the road.

heres a don't for hollywood.

DON'T: Park a car on a residential street while attending an event and expect to find it past 8am the next morning. Any street within a mile of the Hollywood strip is permitted for residents that live there or signed either no parking or 2 hour parking from 8am to 12mid. Either that or theirs those damn signs for street cleaning. I almost lost a car a few weeks back when we went to the rainbow and metal school with xxxjay and pb's crew. Got drunk and said it will be ok, came back and found a bunch of tickets on it. Luckily it was not towed.

YES!!!!! :thumbsup
Just usually takes you twice as long though. But travel time in LA is relative :1orglaugh

Thanks for the tips Cory :thumbsup

I'm in the same boat as you fuze!

What's the best way to get from LAX to the hotel?

By helicopter :winkwink:

The San Diego Freeway doesn't go to San Diego, it ends near Santa Ana.

The Santa Ana Freeway goes to from San Diego.

Shit..thanks for letting me know, will do it next time..:thumbsup

Lets talk facts now. JMK and other locals, I am not going to tell him the world is pretty roses : )

405 / 101 interchange = busiest interchange in the world.

405 / 10 interchange = second busiest in the world

405 / harbor = this is just south of the 405 / 10, however, it isn't ranked, but I cried there once, because the traffic was so bad and I had to pee.

Your cabby may take the Harbor freeway north to Downtown LA, to avoid all of this. By doing this, you will quickly develop a false sense of calm when you are flying down the freeway. Then comes downtown. It is a crush of cars, it looks like a stadium parking lot. Once you finally get on the 101 north, you will have plenty of opportunity to gets some pictures of downtown LA.

When I first moved to LA, like 8 or 9 years ago, I got on the 101 and tried to exit the 405 south which would lead me to Santa Monica. I got on the ramp that changes you over. The wait was so long that some guy got out of his car, sat on his hood, and lite a cigarette.

If you think I am kidding, ask other LA folks. This shit happens all the time.

Now, you might be thinking, "I am from Atlanta or Houston, I heard it is worse than LA."

Allow me to explain. During the actual rush hours, as deemed by the entire country in large metropolitans, large cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, and Houston are likely comprable.

But that isn't what makes it bad.

1) In LA, the distance you travel from point A to point B is often much further. LA square-mile wise, is only smaller than Baghdad.

2) The rush hour occurs all day and most of the evening, early night. On friday night, the 405 in Santa Monica is terrible until just under 11pm. The 101 is awful until about 2am.

3) The absolute worst day of the week is Saturday. I dare you to drive on Saturday.

When xxxJay first moved from Atlanta to Orange County, I invited him to lunch at Cheesecake Factory. He had to take the 405 from Huntington Beach to Irvine. I know some of you LA people are already cringing, this is considered a death zone. People have actually died where the 405 crosses Beach Blvd because of how long it takes.

Jay called my cell around 2pm and asked me if there had been an accident or if the freeway had collapsed. LOL I told him welcome to LA buddy! LOL

There was no chance you were gonna drive that thing anywhere that night :1orglaugh As much as you tried, I had to keep picking you up and taking you back down to street :)