Heading to LA/Long Beach this week

So, the age old question arises...what is going on down south this Thursday through Saturday?

Booked up saturday morning, other than that I am free to get out and roam.

Thinking about getting a burger at Harvey's Broiler in Downey.

I am going to load up my camera's and go out for some night shooting, but need to know where to gooooo...

 

www.socalcarculture.com

 

night photography?
Disney Concert Hall......

 

thank you, looks like Harvey's (Bob's) has a dealyo satruday night.

 

Harvey's (Bob's Big Boy) is good at night..

 

In the LB area?
Where are you going to be staying?

 

Oh holy wow. give me moonlight!!

what did you shoot this with?

 

Hilton in the LB.

 

Long Beach High Performance car swapmeet is Sunday at Veterans stadium:

http://www.toppingevents.com/ecology_meet.asp

Other than that ...

Have a drink at the Observation Bar on the Queen Mary, www.queenmary.com,

or ... drive down Long Beach Boulevard and look at all the empty buildings.

Visit 4th Street for some vintage shopping:

http://4thstreetlongbeach.com/

Go see where West Coast Choppers used to be ... .

 

LB skyline is nice at night along with the Queen Mary....any of the beach communities north or south are good.
If you take Pacific Coast Highway north, Santa Monica's pier is pretty close by. The pier is also the end for Route 66 and looks great at night. There's a huge lit-up ferris wheel is really cool afterdark...great for time-exposures and also a fun place with a great sea-breeze....if you go, go late afternoon so you can still get shot in the sun...lots of bikinis, too...then at dusk the photography is at it's best, and is a real challenge, which is what it's all about, right.
Then after dark....long exposures are tons of fun

 

I am going to bomb back up hwy 1/101 on sunday. Work is going to keep me in LB/Pedro. Saturday afternoon I am going to borrow a tug and check out the LA/LB harbour.

Have been wanting to see Harvey's since it was demo'd, and i will suffer traffic for that.

The Disney hall looks amazing, and will definately head out there.

The parentals are going to come up saturday morning for breakfast on the queen mary, so i get to see that.

 

Just reading this into the record: the photos Mazooma1 has posted are of the real Long Beach Nu-Pike amusement park, which began being shuttered, piecemeal, in the late 1960s and is now long gone.

Visitors who now drive down Shoreline Drive can see a Ferris wheel--but this is a newly-built homage to the real Ferris wheel that once lived here.

Not sure where the old wheel went, but it ain't been here for years.

Fur Biscuit, two more places--one NOT to be missed: the last two remaining vestiges of the Long Beach Pike: Outer Limits tattoo parlor, formerly Bert Grimm's World Famous Tattoo, 27 Chestnut Place. Oldest continuously-operated tattoo parlor in the continental United States.

http://outerlimitstattoo.com/long.html

AND ... Looff's Lite-a-Line, a game that blends bingo with pinball: formerly housed on the Pike, now relocated to 2500 Long Beach Blvd. You really should go check this out. I think it's still $1 a game.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/looffs-lite-a-line-long-beach

Have a good weekend!