#glaw The Great Walk 2014

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THE VALLEY:

Mile 1: Canoga Ave Mile 13: Laurel Canyon Blvd. Mile 2: Villa Terraza Mile 14: Tujunga Ave. Mile 3: Oakdale Ave. Mile 15: Lankershim Blvd. Mile 4: Topeka Drive **101 Freeway** Mile 5: Avenida Oriente Turn left and head down Lankershim. Stay on left side in order Mile 6: Encino Ave. to visit the . Then head up Lankershim Mile 7: La Maida St. toward North . Mile 8: Gaviota Ave. Mile 16: Moorpark St. **405 Freeway** **134 Freeway** Mile 9: Columbia Ave. Mile 17: Harstook Street Mile 10: Beverly Glen Blvd. Final destination: The sculpture outside the Art Institute of Mile 11: Ventura Canyon Ave. -Hollywood! Take group photos and then head to Mile 12: Coldwater Canyon Ave. District Pub NoHo to celebrate (if you wish)! 5249 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (818) 732-7319

YOU ARE WALKING ON YOUR OWN ACCORD. THE GREAT LOS ANGELES WALK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU OR YOUR ACTIONS ON THE WALK. BE SAFE AND BE SMART! FOOD/DRINK ON VENTURA BLVD.* VENTURA SITES** Arranged by address from East to West Woodland Casual Patio and Rattan (Architect WOODLAND HILLS Unknown), 19855 Ventura Blvd. Curry Up Café Asian Fusion Few Ventura Boulevard Mid-Century Modern designs are as 21912 Ventura Blvd captivating as that of Woodland Casual Patio and Rattan, which Sprouts Farmers Market Market is somehow space-age and organic at once. 21821 Ventura Blvd Fleetwood Center (Lee Oakes), 19611 Ventura Blvd. The Baker Bakery-Café A strip mall renowned for its facade has never been 21600 Ventura Blvd home to a Cadillac-related business, let alone a dealership. Trader Joe’s Market 21055 Ventura Blvd Car Wash (Architect Unknown), 17438 Ventura Blvd. Cables Restaurant American Originally known as the Auto Laundry, this Googie-style Ventura 20929 Ventura Blvd Boulevard gem is one of few that retains its spectacular original details that unmistakably advertise it as a car wash. TARZANA Chase Bank, Encino (Millard Sheets, Architectural Apey Kade Sri Lankan Designer), 17121 Ventura Blvd. 19662 Ventura Blvd The last of the famed Home Savings and Loan buildings from LYFE Kitchen New American architectural designer Millard Sheets and a fitting tribute to the 18700 Ventura Blvd vision of its designer and occupant. The Carving Board Sandwiches 18607 Ventura Blvd #100 Office Building (Howard R. Lane, E. Ray Schlick), 17100 Ventura Blvd. A lovely example of Mid-Century Modern architecture in a ENCINO low-rise, commercial context, easy to miss in the abundance of Coral Tree Café Café eye-catching architecture on Ventura Boulevard. 17499 Ventura Blvd Earthbar (inside Equinox) Juices Garnier Building at Rancho Los Encinos, 16830 Ventura Blvd 16756 Moorpark St. Gelson’s Market A Spanish grazing concession, and later Mexican land granted 16450 Ventura Blvd and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the , in present day Encino, Batter Fish Fish & Chips Los Angeles County, California. The original 19th century adobe 16200 Ventura Blvd and limestone structures and natural warm springs are now Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop Sandwiches within the Los Encinos State Historic Park. 16101 Ventura Blvd #101 Taste My Soup Soups Valley Beth Shalom (Howard R. Lane), 15608 Ventura Blvd 15739 Ventura Blvd. A sweeping Mid-Century Modern design of brick, glass, and concrete designed by Encino architect Howard R. Lane and SHERMAN OAKS including a cornerstone quarried on Mt. Zion. Whole Foods Market 4520 N Sepulveda Blvd Mel’s (Armet & Davis), 14846 Ventura Blvd. Tipsy Cow Burger Bar A great example of Louis Armet and Eldon Davis early Googie 15005 Ventura Blvd designs, showing their use of angled rooflines, dramatic signage, Marmalade Café Café and other space-age elements that would become even more 14910 Ventura Blvd angled and dramatic in their later work. Tamashii Ramen House Ramen Casa de Cadillac (Randall Duell, Phillip Conklin), 14531 Ventura Blvd 14401 Ventura Blvd. Mendocino Farms Sandwiches A well-known landmark of San Fernando Valley Modernism, Casa 14141 Ventura Blvd de Cadillac has been showcasing cars continuously since 1949, The Local Peasant Gastropub but only recently has it been restored to its original grandeur. 14058 Ventura Blvd Ralphs Market (R. Leon Edgar), 12842 Ventura Blvd. The Woodman Gastropub The front façade of this market building by R. Leon Edgar features 13615 Ventura Blvd a combined roof and walls of smooth concrete, bending up from Boneyard Bistro Barbecue the ground to flatten out and shelter the building. 13539 Ventura Blvd Lingenbrink Shops (R. M. Schindler), STUDIO CITY 12632 Ventura Blvd. Jumpcut Café Café Surviving relatively unscathed with its modern bones still apparent under new signage and canopies, this small shopping 13203 Ventura Blvd complex prefigured the now-common typology of the strip mall. River Rock (in Sportsmen’s Lodge) New American 12833 Ventura Blvd Dupar’s Restaurant, 12036 Ventura Blvd Granville New American 12345 Ventura Blvd CBS Studio Center, Laurel Canyon and Ventura Flask Fine Wines Wine Bar Studio City Hand Car Wash, 11514 Ventura Blvd 12194 Ventura Blvd Tender Greens New American Campo de Cahuenga, 3919 Lankershim Blvd. 12050 Ventura Blvd Peek through the gate and see some of the archaeological dig Artisan Cheese Gallery Cheese Shop adobe “re-creation” on the grounds. It shows the footprint as 12023 Ventura Blvd excavated when the Red Line was built. It was learned at that DarbinZ Kebab Mediterranean time that the actual structure extended out under Lankershim Blvd. The building you see on the grounds was erected in 1949, 11925 Ventura Blvd made to resemble what the actual treaty-signing structure might Sugarfish Sushi have looked like in 1847 when the Capitulation occurred. At the 11288 Ventura Blvd time of the signing, the building was already known to be old and Ramen Jinya Ramen decrepit and by the turn of the century was gone. From the gate 11239 Ventura Blvd you can also see the Dona Bernarda Ruiz memorial fountain. The Fox and Hounds Pub 11100 Ventura Blvd Former Pacific Railway depot, Chandler and Lankershim The building, which dates to the late 1800s, was used as a freight SunCafe Organic Vegan railway stop and later as a Red Car station, and it’s currently 10820 Ventura Blvd being restored by Metro. *Compiled by by H.C. So @ hcfoodventure.blogspot.com **Courtesy Los Angeles Conservancy, Wikipedia, (Twitter: @LAOCFoodie / Instagram: @foodventure) Campo de Cahuenga.com and LAMag.com.