Getty Villa

1911 Director Thomas Ince created his Western film factory ", Inceville" which at its peak employed nearly 600 people. A decade later, bought the Rev. Charles H. Scott and the Southern California Methodist Episcopal Church, the country, founded in 1922 Scott Pacific Palisades, imagination an elaborate religious and spiritual community. Believers snapped choice lots and lived in tents during construction. Until 1925, the Palisades had 100 homes. In one subdivision, streets were named for Methodist missionaries. The tents were eventually replaced by cabins, then by bungalows, and ultimately by multimillion-dollar homes.
For many decades there was a virtual ban on alcohol consumption in the area, and a Chinese restaurant, House of Lee's, only instead of striking liquor license. The Presbyterian Church originally owned a conference center in Temescal Canyon before it was sold, became, at Temescal Gateway Park. 

Areas

    * The Alphabet Streets as the "North Village known ', north of Sunset Blvd. and are characterized by narrow alleys. The street names are named sequentially, beginning with A, B, C, D, etc - hence the name Alphabet Streets. The streets are for the Bishops of the Methodist name of the late 19th and early 20 Century. It is a popular destination for trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
    * The Bluffs are more out-of-town west along Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Charter High School run past and the Via de La Paz, they extend over a longer distance between Sunset Blvd. and the Palisades Bluffs.
    * Castellammare is on small bluffs next to the sea. The narrow, winding streets have Italian names. It is home to the Getty Villa. It is located where Sunset Blvd meets Pacific Coast Highway.
    * Huntington Palisades, near the "village" is proper and is more of a typical suburb. It is located south of Sunset Blvd.
    * Marquez Knolls is a large area of homes, renowned for its spectacular sea views and will continue west on Sunset Blvd upslope situated on a mountain. The lower upslope was the first time in the early 1950s and the mid-1960s by the Earl Lachman family developed. Marquez Elementary services the neighborhood along with a small shopping center on Marquez Street and Sunset Blvd.
    * Palisades Highlands is a township near the end of Sunset Blvd. Topanga borders. About five minutes from the center of Pacific Palisades, the Palisades may Village, the Highlands to be almost as their own separate community.
    * The Coast and the Riviera Country Club, a high-end country club, and roads named after different locations in the French and Italian Riviera. The neighborhood is divided into north and south sections by Sunset Boulevard. It borders Santa Monica and Brentwood.
    * Rustic Canyon features post-war homes on the former territory of the Polo Uplifter located, the original site of The Uplift clubhouse (now City Park) and the cabins as second homes and weekend retreats designed. This area is also known as Uplifter's Ranch. Located off Sunset Blvd. Between the Riviera and Huntington Palisades. Above the canyon lies Will Rogers State Historic Park [1].
    * The Village is a small Central Business District "on Sunset Boulevard, consisting of restaurants, shops, banks and offices. Known stores in The Village include Norris Hardware (originally the Theatre Bay), Cathay Palisades (formerly Fein's Deli) , black ink, PaliSkate, Sylvia's Skin Studio, Benton's Sporting Goods and Village Books.
Demographics
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times "Mapping LA" Pacific Palisades project provides these statistics: Population: 23 940; average household income: $ 168,008 [2]. 
Government and Infrastructure
The most important group within the bourgeois is the Palisades Pacific Palisades Community Council. The Pacific Palisades Council generally meets twice monthly to a wide range of issues, discuss the impact its residents. The Council rejected the city has become an official part of the city and draws its independent, non-aligned status. One of the main reasons that the Council members cite is the fear that they lose the power to sue the city.
 
Local Government
The community is in District 11 of the City Council. From 2008 Bill Rosendahl represents the district. [3]
Los Angeles Fire Department operates two fire stations serving Pacific Palisades. Station 69 at 15 045 West Sunset Boulevard Pacific Palisades, and serves the Pacific coast. [4] station is 23 in 17 281 West Sunset Boulevard to the Palisades Highlands, Castellammare and the Pacific Coast [5].
Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue serve, 90 025, the neighborhood [6]. 
County, state and federal level, represented
Pacific Palisades is in third District Los Angeles County. From 2008 provides Zev Yaroslavsky] District [7th
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office is Pacific Palisades. The department operates the Simms / Mann Health and Wellness Center in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades served Pacific Palisades within District 41 of the California State Assembly. From 2008 is Julia Brownley District . Pacific Palisades within District 23 of the California Senate, from 2008, Sheila Kuehl represents the district. The community is part of the State Board of Equalization District 4, represented by Judy Chu of 2008 The community is within 30 Congressional District of California. From 2008 is Henry Waxman of the district.  The United States Postal Service operates the Pacific Palisades Post Office on 15 243 La Cruz Drive and Sunset Boulevard West 15 209.
 
Education 
Palisades Charter High School
Residents are zoned to Los Angeles Unified School District schools. The area is in District 4 Board. [16] From 2008 Marlene Canter is the county [17]. Canter announced that it will not seek re-election after the expiry of its term in June 2009 [18].
Some residents are in Pacific Palisades Elementary School assigned, some residents are assigned to Canyon Elementary School, and some are assigned to Marquez Elementary School. All residents are to worship Charter Middle School, Palisades Charter High School zoned. [19] [20]

    * Canyon Elementary School opened in 1910
    * Pacific Palisades Elementary opened in 1922
    * Marquez Elementary School opened in 1955
    * Paul Revere Middle School was the first time as Palisades-Brentwood Junior High School on 12 September 1955, he chose his current name during the first year of operation. It was an internal charter in 1994      
* Palisades High School opened in 1961 . Palisades received a charter in 1994 [26].
Private schools in the area include:

    * Calvary Christian (K-8) [2]
    * Village School [3] (in K-6)
    * Corpus Christi (K-8)
    * St. Matthew's Parish School (K-8)
    * 7 Arrows (K-6)
    * Westside Waldorf (K-8)
[Edit] Public libraries
Los Angeles Public Library operates the Palisades Branch at 861 Alma Real Drive [27]. 
Media
The only newspaper that is directly in the service of the Palisades Palisadian-Post. The community was served by two papers, until they merged in the 1970s. The papers, was The Palisades Post and the Palisadian, the Palisadian-Post. Unlike most weekly newspapers on the Westside of Los Angeles, is the post on a subscription basis. The paper will be heard by the Small Newspaper Group, a Midwest chain of the media. The little family bought the post from longtime owner / operator of the Browns in the early 1980s. Roberta Donahue is the editor of the paper and Bill Bruns is editor in chief.

    * Los Angeles Times is the city-wide newspaper.
    * Palisadian-Post is a local community newspaper.
[Edit] Parks and Recreation

    * The Los Angeles Department of Recreation Parks and operates several recreational facilities in Pacific Palisades 851 Alma Real drive. Palisades Park, at that address, has 117 acres (0.47 km2) of the country. [28] Palisades Recreation Center, also at this address has fireplaces, four baseball (two lighted and two unlighted), lighted basketball (indoor and outdoor service), a playground, an American football field, a gym (no weights be), picnic tables, illuminated tennis courts, volleyball and lighted. The facility also has a kitchen, a stage, a TV area and several planned sporting and non-sporting activities.  The Pacific Palisades Tennis Court, even at that address has eight courts
    * Rustic Canyon Park Rustic Canyon Road along. The Rustic Canyon Pool is 601 Latimer Road. The Rustic Canyon Recreation Center is located at the same address, has one with a capacity of 150 persons, which can be used as an auditorium, a gymnasium or a volleyball field. The center also has fireplaces, one unlighted baseball, basketball (indoor and unlighted outdoor lighted), a playground, a gym (no weights available), picnic tables and beach volleyball (lit and unlit).
    * Temescal Canyon Park is a non-occupied "Pocket Park" at 15 900 Pacific Coast Highway. The park has fire pits, a playground, picnic tables, hiking trails, a native garden, and toilets. [34] Santa Ynez Canyon Park is located in Palisades Drive and Avenida de Santa Ynez [35]. Rivas Canyon Park is located at the eastern terminus of the Oracle PL
    * Will Rogers State Historic Park and Polo Club. [37] During Will Rogers made his home in Beverly Hills late twenties, in 1922, he bought a large plot of nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land to build a weekend home before sunset. He built a polo field on the property in 1926 and 1928, he and his family to her home. died in 1944, according to Will Rogers, the ranch was a State Park in the interest of conservation, the home is maintained as it was, including the fixtures and equipment. It is open to the public on most days except major holidays, even though the approval is necessary. The tip of the ownership of the track contains views of the sea and the city.
Places

    * The Eames House 1949 home and studio of husband and wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames.
    * The Getty Villa The most famous attraction in the Palisades, the J. Paul Getty Getty Villa. The museum incorrectly states that it is of the Getty Villa Malibu, but it is a part of the Palisades, which is in the city of Los Angeles.
    * Villa Aurora An artist residence and cultural monument in the former home of the exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta station.
    * Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine of Paramahansa Yogananda founded in 1950.
Location

    * The 2005 Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips Havoc film was set and filmed in the Palisades in Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 2003 Disney film Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 2001 film Crazy / Beautiful with Kirsten Dunst was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 1977 NBC TV program at 16 James, Lance Kerwin was filmed at the same school, which was then called the Palisades High School, or better known as the "Pali" high.
    * The 1976 movie Carrie was also shot at Palisades High School.
    * Food Network's Everyday Italian is filmed on El Medio.
    * The television series Baywatch Lifeguard Headquarters Tower 15 was filmed by Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades.
    * The TV series Rockford Files was often filmed in and around the Palisades in the 1970s.
    * The Popular TV Series filmed at Palisades High School
    * The first season the residence of the TV series "The Golden Girls" was a house in Pacific Palisades. For subsequent seasons, a facade house on the Disney / MGM was rebuilt much. [38]
    * The HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm is filmed in real life residence of character, Larry David.

The Armand Hammer Museum in California

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, or the Hammer Museum, as it is commonly known, is a museum in Los Angeles, California. It is operated by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
 
Summary
 
The hammer includes a small collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionism. The museum houses more than 7,500 works by Honoré Daumier French satirist, the largest collection outside of Paris. In recent years, the hammer has become known for its collection of contemporary works of art on paper known. It also has fine paintings by Rembrandt, Titian and Chardin.[Edit] History
The museum was by Armand Hammer, the late CEO of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, founded as a place to display his extensive art collection. Mr. Hammer died 15 days after the museum opened to the public in November 1990. Mr. Hammer was a Los Angeles County Museum of Art board member for almost 20 years, starting in 1968, and during that time had promised his extensive collection of the museum. To LACMA surprise hammer instead he founded his own museum, built next to Occidental's headquarters and designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.
The Hammer presents key single-artist and thematic exhibitions of historical and contemporary art produced by their curators or prepared in cooperation with other institutions. The Hammer also has approximately ten Hammer Projects each year with international and local artists with a laboratory-like environment to create new work or present existing work in a fresh context. The hammer is a cultural center that offers a wide mix of free public programs throughout the year is over, presentations, lectures, symposia, film screenings, music events and other events. The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, opened in late 2006. The venue is the Hammer public programs and also the new home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive is well-known film library

The building was for $ 60,000,000 and the original endowment was $ 38,000,000 built. Hammer Occidental convinced the entire cost on the grounds that the museum would enhance the reputation of the company to finance. Occidental shareholders sued as a waste of corporate assets.
 
Controversy
 
In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines through the sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $ 30,800,000. The Codex Leicester was one of the proudest acquisitions, Mr. Hammer in 1980 for $ 5,120,000, one, he tried unsuccessfully to buy the Codex Hammer rename. Most museums have a collection of guides to be used deaccessing art, the profits from the sale are needed for future acquisitions. The Hammer Museum sold the 72 alternative scientific notebook page, the museum's exhibitions and programs to fund. 

Management
 
In 1994 took over management of the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Armand Hammer Foundation maintain some control, recover, including a "reversionary clause" granting the rights to the Foundation's art collection and some of the Endowment Fund. The museum had long desired to remove these clauses.
On 19 January 2007, the Hammer Museum and the Armand Hammer Foundation agreed to dissolve their relationships, division of the estimated remaining 195 objects, which founded the museum, the foundation of maintaining 92 paintings on $ 55,000,000, while maintaining the museum objects 103 to 250 million $ estimated.

Museum of Toys and Automata in Verdú

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The Museum of Toys and Automata (in Catalan Museu de Joguet machines i) is a toy vending machine & Museum in Verdú, Lleida, 100 km west of Barcelona. It creates a collection of more than a thousand objects in a building with unique architecture. It is one of the most important museums of its kind

The exhibition
The museum was opened in 2004. Most objects are part of the collection of Manel Mayoral created. It is in an old house at number 23 in the village square housed. It is distributed in three floors with an area of more than 2000 square meters. The collection is characterized by fair attractions, bicycles, table football, tin toys, cars formed with pedals, posters, scooters, games, Automata ...
The exhibition offers a fascinating journey through memories, illusions and experience of the collector. The memory is the subtle thread of this set of objects, but also of the museum. 

The building
The building that houses the museum is located at number 23 of the Plaça Major by Verdú in the center of the city's social life, and it used to be a headquarters popularly known as "Cal Jan".
Cal Jan was in the 15th Century built than any other building in the same street, and even then an important house was Verdú. The falls from balconies on the first floor are an example of early architecture of the 17th Century. In fact, there is an inscription on the facade from the year 1695, the year the house will be rebuilt.
It was like a house in the middle of the 20th Century, used, and in 1999 it was decided to start its transformation into a museum.
In order to adapt the building to its new use, it has a complete rethinking of its distribution, as well as the addition of a neighboring site were. A ramp connects the four floors were built. The conversion was no architectural barriers, which resulted in an impressive construction done.
Related information: - Total area: 2.075 m2 - 1895 m2 Building area - were used: 1,000 tons of rock 224 tonnes of concrete 55 tons of iron 20 km 1.000 m electric cable wire wooden pipes 500 m2 400 m2 glass 

Information
From its opening, the Museum of temporary exhibitions has performed at the same time, from the museum, they offer the rental of twenty temporary exhibitions, for any type of cultural institutions and centers of leisure.
Guided visits are organized by the Museum and Verdú has educational workshops for groups, he rents his equipment to carry out photographic reports and viewing of television. She also has a shop of toys and products of the area.
From its opening, the museum is a social, cultural and tourist phenomenon in Catalonia and in the route of the Cistercians, for the large number of visitors that it receives each year and for the transcendence of the measures.

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, Hyde Park in the neighborhood adjacent to Lake Michigan. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from 1893 World's Fair. Originally from Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, it is only opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition doped. It is also the largest science museum in the western hemisphere.
Among his diverse and extensive exhibits, the museum offers a working coal mine, a German U-boat (U-505) during the Second World War, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model, the first diesel powered streamlined powered conquered stainless-steel passenger train ( Pioneer Zephyr) and a space probe of NASA used on the Apollo 8 mission.
Based on 2006 attendance, the Museum of Science and Industry was the fourth largest cultural attraction in Chicago. He climbed to second place, 2007 is based participation.
David R. Mosena president and CEO of the museum since 1998


History
 
The Palace of Fine Arts (also known as the Fine Arts Building) at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was designed by Charles B. Atwood. Unlike the other "White City" building was constructed with a brick substructure under its plaster facade. After the world exhibition, which it first Columbian Museum, housed in the the Field Museum of Natural History developed. If a new building opened near Field Museum of Chicago in 1920, moved the museum organization and the former site remained vacant.
Art Institute of Chicago professor Lorado Taft led a public campaign to restore the building and in another kind of museum, one devoted to sculpture. The South Park Commissioners (now part of the Chicago Park District) won approval in a referendum to sell $ 5,000,000 in bonds to apply for restoration costs in the hope of the building into a sculpture museum, a technical trade, schools, and other things. But after a few years the building has been selected as the site for a new Science Museum.
At this time, the Commercial Club of Chicago was interested in creating a science museum in Chicago. Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald's Club members by pledging to $ 3,000,000 to the cost of conversion of the Palace of Fine Arts (Rosenwald was finally paying more than $ 5,000,000 for the project attracted). During his transformation into the MSI, the exterior of the building has been poured into new limestone, retaining its 1893 Beaux Arts look, while the interior was replaced with a new designed Art Moderne style by Alfred P. Shaw.
Rosenwald established organization of the museum in 1926 and insisted that his name not appear on the building, but for the early years of the museum, it was known as the Rosenwald Industrial Museum. In 1928, the name of the museum at the Museum of Science and Industry changed. Rosenwald's vision was an interactive museum in the style of the Deutsches Museum in Munich / Germany, a museum in 1911, he visited when he was on vacation with his family in Germany to create.The Museum's Christmas Around the World Exhibition
The museum conducted a nationwide search for his first director to be found. In the end, MSI Board of Directors elected because he Waldemar Kaempffert Julius Rosenwald shared vision. Kaempffert was the science editor for The New York Times. He assembled the museum's first curatorial staff and began to organize and build the exhibits. For the planning and preparation of the museum, Kaempffert and his staff visited the German Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in Kensington, and the Technical Museum in Vienna, all of which served as models for the MSI. Kaempffert was also instrumental in the development closely with the science departments of the University of Chicago, a lot comes from the scholarship for the exhibits. Kaempffert occurred in early 1931 amid growing disputes with the second President of the Board of its objectivity and neutrality of the exhibits and his management staff.
The new Museum of Science and Industry to the public in three stages between 1933 and 1940. The first opening took place during the Century of Progress Exposition. Two of the museum's president, a number of curators and other staff members, and exhibits came from the MSI Century of Progress event.
For years, visitors to the museum through its original main entrance. However, it proved too small to handle a large number of people. The new main entrance is a structure from the main museum building, through which visitors descend into an underground room then up again into the main building, dissolved in a similar way as the Louvre pyramid. 

Exhibits 

Foucault pendulumA United 727
The museum displays more than 2,000 exhibits in 75 large halls. The museum has several major permanent exhibition. The mine re-created a working deep shaft coal mine in Central Pavilion inside the museum with the original equipment from Old Ben # 17 circa 1933rd Since 1954, the museum has the U-505 submarine, one of only two German U-boats in World War II had captured, and the only one caught now on display in the Western Hemisphere. In 2004, the museum has a hole opened in the front garden in front of the East Pavilion, which would later underground McCormick Tribune Foundation will exhibit hall, the U-505 behind the East Pavilion and sank the U-505 inside, opening of the new U -505 Experience on 5 June 2005. Take Flight donated creates a San Francisco to Chicago flight with a real Boeing 727 jet aircraft from United Airlines. Silent film star Colleen Moore and stock market investor's Fairy Castle is on display as The Great Train Story, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model that the history of transportation from Seattle to Chicago explains. The zone includes Transportation to provide air and land transport, including the Empire State Express 999 steam locomotive, the first car ever exceed 100 miles an hour. The Transportation Zone also features two fighters of the Second World War by the British Government donated a Ju 87 R-2/Trop. Stuka Divebomb - one of only two intact Stukas left in the world - and a Supermarine Spitfire. The first diesel-streamlined stainless steel train, the Pioneer Zephyr is renamed on permanent display at the Great Hall, the entrance hall in 2008, and a free tour goes through it every 10-20 minutes. Several U.S. Navy war ship models on display. There is a flight simulator for the new F-35 Lightning II
In keeping with Rosenwald vision, many of the exhibits are interactive, from Genetics: Decoding Life, which sees the genetics on human and animal development, a toy maker 3000, a working assembly line that visitors can watch a toy top and, how it is done. There is also an interactive Fab Lab MSI, which intends an interactive laboratory where members build "can do everything" is.
In March 2010 the Science Museum opened in the Storms Allstate court. This multi-level exhibit features a 40-foot water tornado, tsunami-tank, Tesla coil, heliostat system and of an authentic Wimshurst machine Wimshurst James in the late 1800s. All artifacts can explore the guests the physics and chemistry of the natural world around them.
 
MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, the Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders was on the first lunar orbital mission. Other exhibits include an Omnimax theater, Scott Carpenter's Mercury Atlas 7 spaceship, a Lunar Module trainer and a life-size dummy of a space shuttle.
The museum is unique and quirky permanent exhibits, as is known, a walk-through model of the human heart, which was removed in 2008 for the construction of YOU! Experience the [4], the eighth Opened in October 2009 and replaced with a 13-meter-high interactive 3D heart [5]. Also known body slices [two corpses are on display in 1/2-inch-thick (13 mm) discs currently on display] - in part - in you! The experience. You! Experience the functions and Gunther von Hagen's plastinated.
Due to its age and design, the museum building itself is a museum piece.
Other exhibits include Yesterday's Main Street, a mock-up of a road from Chicago to the early 1900s complete with a paved road, old-fashioned lights, fire hydrants, and several shops, including the precursors to several Chicago-based company. Included are:

    * Dr. John B. Murphy 's office
    * Berghoff's Restaurant
    * Jewel Tea Company grocery
    * Registry
    * Lytton's Clothing Store
    * Commonwealth Edison
    * Gossard Corset Shop
    * Chas. A. Stevens & Co. (now the bankruptcy)
    * Chicago Post Office
    * Walgreen's Drug Company
    * The Nickelodeon Cinema
    * Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and Photo Studio
Unlike the other stores, both can Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and The Nickelodeon Cinema can be entered and are functional businesses. Finnigan's serves a variety of flavors and varieties of ice cream and The Nickelodeon Cinema plays short silent films throughout the day. Another important aspect to Yesterday's Main Street is the air that is blown through the exhibition to create the feeling of a cool autumn evening.
In 1993, the F-104 Starfighter on loan to MSI by the U.S. Air Force since 1978, at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas has been sent.
In March 1995, the Santa Fe steam locomotive 2903, the museum was moved from outside to the Illinois Railway Museum.
The museum houses the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame.


Exhibitions
 
In addition to the three floors of permanent exhibitions, the Museum of Science & Industry also hosts temporary and traveling exhibitions. Exhibitions are different from the exhibits, because for five months or less and usually require a separate admission fee last paid. [Edit] Exhibitions in the MSI have included Titanic: The Exhibition, [8], the largest collection of relics from the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 2000, Gunther von Hagens' BODY, a look inside the human body by using samples plastinated human, in 2005, and Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius [9] in the summer of 2006. Past exhibitions include CSI: The Experience, robots as we are, [10] City of the Future, [11] Canstruction and Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, Experience and the glass. Harry Potter: The Exhibition opened on 30 April 2009, and left the Museum on 29 September 2009. opened the third installment of the Smart Home: Green Wired March 2010 and will run until January 2011.