Welcome to Hollywood!
What's your dream?
Everybody comes here;
This is Hollywood,
Land of dreams.
Some dreams come true, some don't;
But keep on dreamin'-
This is Hollywood.
Always time to dream,
So keep on dreamin'...
~Pretty Woman~
Rodeo Drive of Beverly Hills, California is a shopping district known for designer label and haute couture fashion. The name generally refers to a three-block long stretch of boutiques and shops but the street stretches further north and south.
The deluxe Disneyland season passes we have limits the days that we can go into the park. All major holidays and most all Saturdays are off limits to the parks. Makes good sense as these are the most crowded. During our recent trip to California I wanted to go to Rodeo Drive and Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood. SO, Saturday after beignets at The Jazz Kitchen it was time to head toward Hollywood. It was quite something to arrive and see a Bugatti car worth 1.9 million dollars. WOW!!! One of the hot spots on Rodeo Drive is the build your own Porsche shop.
Heather loved the movie Pretty Woman. She loves the scene where Julia Roberts goes back to the store that was mean to her and would not wait on her the day before. But in truth...Rodeo Drive is not that way. The stores are very polite and nice. Always a big welcome and lots of sucking up. They don't know if you have money or not so they have to be nice to everyone. You can even get name brand water bottles if you need a drink.
Back in 1964, when Fred Hayman started building his Giorgio Beverly Hills shop, Rodeo Drive was just a regular city street, with a grocer, a gas station and a hardware store. Hayman became its ambassador. he envisioned the street as an elegant home to the finest designers and boutiques, a magnet for starlets and socialite, like an American Champs-Elyees, a sexy, fun, camera-ready intersection of Hollywood and fashion. his original Giorgio Beverly Hills, located at 273 Rodeo Drive is now the home to Louis Vuitton.
I recently saw an article about Fred Hayman and his love of Rodeo Drive. It showed a street sign that reads Fred Hayman Drive and is placed at the Louis Vuitton store the home of his original store. Of course I had to go find this sign. I was thrilled to find it and think that it all started with one man and a dream. I came home to find a new book has been written about Fred Hayman. Of course I bought the large book and plan to take many months to read it.
I only bought some things from the Coach Store. I had a very special coupon and I waited to spend it on Rodeo Drive. Once I was finished shopping it was time for lunch and loud music at Hard Rock Cafe. I plan on going to as many of these as possible. Heather loved Hard Rock and many treasures from several of them. I thought I had the right Hard Rock from the website, but it has been closed for 4 years. We then needed to find another one. Little did I know where this new one was going to be.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and 3 blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California. The stars are permanent public monuments to achievement in the entertainment industry, bearing the names of the mix of actors, musicians, directors, producers, musical and theatrical groups, fictional characters, and other.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre is a movie theatre located along the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame.The theatre opened on May 18, 1927, headed by Sid Grauman, with the premiere of Cecil B DeMille's The King of Kings. it has been the home to may movie premieres, birthday parties and three Academy Awards ceremonies. Among the theater's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks sen in the forecourt, which bears the signatures, footprints and hand prints of popular motion pictures from the 1920's to today.
As we drove by trying to find the Hard Rock Cafe, I realized where we were. In an amazing spot in Hollywood. Of course after lunch I had to go and look at some of the stars and the hand prints. I would love the opportunity to go back and really look at all the stars and possibly see a movie at the theatre. Yes it is still a working theatre and red carpet movie premiere happen there all the time. It was a great time of star seeking. I would like it to be less crowded the next time I go.
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