California's Best Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

Pacific. Heavy hitters
like Oprah Winfrey,
Steve Martin and Steven
Spielberg have homes
here and occasionally
venture out along the
boutique-and-patio-lined
main drag, Coast Village
Rd.

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The Drive » Take Hwy 101
south back to Ventura, then
head up into the mountains via
the steep Conjeo (Camarillo)
Grade. Leveling off, Hwy 101
zooms east through the San
Fernando Valley. Veer left onto
Hwy 134 toward Burbank,
almost 90 miles after leaving
Santa Barbara.

7 Burbank

Long ago, the TV and

movie biz (locals just

call it ‘the Industry’)

decamped from

Hollywood into the

San Fernando Valley.

Scores of Hollywood

blockbusters, from

The Terminator to

Chinatown, have been

shot on location here.

(Infamously, ‘the Valley’

is also ground zero for

SoCal’s XXX porn-movie

industry.) It also birthed

1980s ‘Valley Girl’ speak

(gag me with a spoon!)

and popularized SoCal’s

ubiquitous mall rat

culture.

Take a look behind

the scenes on the Warner

Bros VIP Studio Tour

(%877-492-8667; http://www.

wbstudiotour.com; 3400

Riverside Dr; tours $49;

hopen daily, hr vary), or

take your screaming

tweens and teens to

Universal Studios

Hollywood theme park

(%800-864-8377; http://www.

universalstudioshollywood.

com; 100 Universal City Plaza;

adult/child $77/69; hopen

daily, hr vary; c) to ride a

tram tour past working

soundstages and pick

up free tickets for a live

TV show taping from

TRIP HIGHLIGHT

Ocean Front Walk