Griffith Observatory - Los Angeles, CA
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bluesnote
N 34° 07.130 W 118° 18.023
11S E 380076 N 3776095
The Griffith Observatory is in countless movies and is a tourist hotspot!
Waymark Code: WMQRNJ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2016
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The famous observatory is a great place to go after dark because you can look over the city and see for miles. It is free to go in and walk around. Parking is limited and at times you will need to park a 1/2 mile away, so I would recommend getting here as early as possible.
"85. The Griffith Observatory and Planetarium (open weekdays 11-11, Sun., holidays 2-11: planetarium demonstration daily 3 and 8:30 pm,: exhibit halls free, planetarium demonstration 25 cents), sidelined by John C. Austin, stands at the crest of an elevation separating Western and Vermont Ave. Canyons: it is a long, low grayish concrete structure with a large blacked copper dome in the center and a smaller revolving dome at each end. Before the building is an obelisk, designed by Achilbald Garner and Gordon Newell, bearing the stylized figures and names and life dates of the world's greatest astronomers. Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, the astrolabe."
Book: Los Angeles
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 179
Year Originally Published: 1941
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