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Cling onto your Mickey hat whereas careening down house MountainTry on Pamela Anderson's tank most sensible or fashion designer sneakers from AliasDangle your sandy toes over a concrete wall and watch a surfer-skater-dog paradeSwirl, sip, get pleasure from and spit your pinot on a sustainable wine tourIn This Guide:Covers l. a., Disneyland, Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Joshua Tree!Three neighborhood authors; 1500 hours of on-the-ground study; fifty six extra pages; sixty five targeted mapsNew Southern California for children bankruptcy jam-packed with advice for familiesContent up to date day-by-day - stopover at lonelyplanet.com for up to the moment studies, updates and traveller feedback

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Schindler House, the architect’s former home and studio, offers essentially a primer on the modernist elements that so greatly influenced midcentury California architecture, such as an open floor plan, flat roof and sliding glass doors. Nowhere was modernism embraced more than in Palm Springs, where architects such as Albert Frey built bungalows for Hollywood’s elite. Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute in San Diego is another fine example. Postmodern work is mostly concentrated in LA with Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Richard Meier’s Getty Center, Rafael Moneo’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Thom Mayne’s Caltrans District 7 Headquarters – all of them Pritzker Architecture Prize winners and undisputed standouts.

The 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter was about the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamount Speedway where a Hells Angel security guard stomped and stabbed to death fan Meredith Hunter. In the affluent 1950s, the emerging middle class moved to the suburbs, and no place in America better defined suburban life than Orange County. The Irvine Company, owner of more than 100,000 acres of agricultural land (the legacy of 19th-century Spanish land grants), built the first ‘master-planned’ communities. Strict rules governed their design – hence the county’s uniform beige-box architecture.

The myths surrounding SoCal have somehow come true. You truly can surf in the morning in pleasant climes, spend the afternoon skiing down alpine slopes and end the day with alfresco dinner in the desert. Who wouldn’t want to live here, even with the horrifying commuting times? Who wouldn’t want to visit, or perhaps become a part of, one of the world’s greatest and most successful natural and social experiments? Return to beginning of chapter Getting Started WHEN TO GO COSTS & MONEY TRAVEL LITERATURE INTERNET RESOURCES TRAVELING RESPONSIBLY Southern California (SoCal) has excellent tourism infrastructure, and backpackers, families and urban nomads will all find their needs and expectations met.

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