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Johnie's is located across from the May Co. department store, one of Los Angeles' best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, on the Miracle Mile. The May Co. building is now part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013. [3]
The Original Broadway cast recording, Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, won a Grammy Award in 1997. After a Los Angeles tryout, the revue opened on Broadway in 1995, running for 2,036 performances, making it the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. [1] It also had a London run in 2021.
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
The Grammy Museum, located in downtown Los Angeles's L.A. Live, opened in December 2008 corresponding to the Grammy Awards' 50th anniversary. The museum consists of four floors, including historical music artifacts displays, interactive instrument stations and recording booths, and a 200-seat Clive Davis Theater. [5]
The Good Life Cafe was a health food market and cafe in Los Angeles, California, known for its open mic nights that helped the 1990s Los Angeles alternative hip hop movement flourish. In 2008, director Ava DuVernay , who had performed at the cafe with the Figures of Speech hip hop group, released a documentary about the cafe, This Is The Life .
Video Archives was a video rental store located in Manhattan Beach, California, and later moved to Hermosa Beach, California, owned and managed by Lance Lawson and Rick Humbert. [1] Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Roger Avary [ 4 ] and Daniel Snyder [ 5 ] worked there before becoming successful in the film industry.
419 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, (310) 564-0843, ritasdeluxe.com Suá Kitchen & Superette The neighborhood store with gourmet bites from the creator of Fly by Jing is open in Larchmont.
The Los Angeles Women's Music Festival also donated a percentage of proceeds to Los Angeles animal rescue groups. The festival was started in 2007 as an annual festival but was on hiatus during 2008 and was scheduled to return in 2009, although the latter event never materialized. As of 2015, it is on indefinite hiatus due to financial challenges.