49th Annual RBMS Preconference Los Angeles

Primo Desidero performing freestyle skateboarding as crowd looks on in
Venice Beach, California, 1984
Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990
UCLA Library Department of Special Collections

Things to do in LA

Getting Started

• Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Los Angeles Times Calendar
• Fodor's

Getting Around LA

• Los Angeles Bus System (MTA)
• Metrolink
• Big Blue Bus, Santa Monica's bus system, includes information about taking the bus to the Getty

Dragon parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California, 1949
Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990
UCLA Library Department of Special Collections

Selected Museums and Cultural Attractions

• Autry National Center
• California Missions
• China Town, Los Angeles
• Chinese American Museum
• The Getty Center
• The Fowler Museum at UCLA
• Griffith Observatory
• Hammer Museum, UCLA
• The Hollywood Sign
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
• Korean American Museum
• Japanese American National Museum
• Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture
• Los Angeles Conservancy
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television & Radio)
• Olvera Street
• Simon Wiesenthal Center

Five bathers running into ocean at Santa Monica Beach, California, circa 1947 Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 UCLA Library Department. of Special Collections

More Fun! Disneyland, Anaheim Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park Lego Land, Carlsbad SeaWorld, San Diego Six Flags, Magic Mountain, Valencia Universal Studios, Los Angeles Los Angeles Dodgers Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Explore Hollywood Music Center, Los Angeles County Skirball Cultural Center UCLAlive