EXPLORING THE LA BREA TAR PITS & THE MIRACLE MILE IN LOS ANGELES скачать в хорошем качестве

EXPLORING THE LA BREA TAR PITS & THE MIRACLE MILE IN LOS ANGELES

This video is a guided tour of the Miracle Mile Area in Los Angeles, looking at the Museums and the Grove Follow me on Instagram: @dneyts Miracle Mile location In the early 1920s, Wilshire Boulevard west of Western Avenue was an unpaved farm road, extending through dairy farms and bean fields. Developer A. W. Ross saw potential for the area and developed Wilshire as a commercial district to rival downtown Los Angeles. As wealth and newcomers poured into the fast-growing city, Ross's parcel became one of Los Angeles's most desirable areas. Acclaimed as "America's Champs-Élysées, this stretch of Wilshire near the La Brea Tar Pits was named "Miracle Mile" for its improbable rise to prominence. Hancock Park Hancock Park has urban open spaces and landscaped areas for walking, picnicking, and other recreation. Located on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax Avenue, it extends across a large city block and around two museums. Hancock Park was created in 1924 when George Allan Hancock donated 23 acres of the Hancock Ranch to the County of Los Angeles with the stipulation that the park be preserved and the fossils properly exhibited. The park is named for its benefactor, George Hancock, a California petroleum industry pioneer, who recognized the scientific importance of the fossils found in the asphaltic deposits. He inherited the 3,000-acre Rancho La Brea in 1883 that included the La Brea tar pits, and found animal bones when digging for oil at them. La Brea Tar Pits The La Brea tar pits are composed of heavy oil fractions called gilsonite, which seeps from the Earth as oil. This seepage has been happening for tens of thousands of years, during which the asphalt sometimes formed a deposit thick enough to trap animals. The deposit would become covered over with water, dust, or leaves. Animals would wander in, become trapped, and die. The George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was built next to the tarpits. The museum tells the story of the tar pits and presents specimens excavated from them. Of more than 100 pits, only Pit 91 is still regularly excavated by researchers and can be seen at the Pit 91 viewing station. In addition to Pit 91, the one other ongoing excavation is called "Project 23". Paleontologists supervise and direct the work of volunteers at both sites. LACMA LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Four years later, it moved to the Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira. The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades. In 2020, four buildings on the campus were demolished to make way for a reconstructed facility designed by Peter Zumthor. His design drew strong community opposition and was lambasted by architectural critics and museum curators, who objected to its reduced gallery space, poor design, and exorbitant costs. Along with other museums that have consigned works to auction in the past, LACMA has been sharply criticized for pruning its art holdings. Museum Row Miracle Mile (Automobile Museum, Academy of motion pictures) Apart for the LACMA and The Tar Pits, the museum row in the Miracle Mile has two other really important museums: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures which is a museum constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, devoted to the history, science, and cultural impact of the film industry. It is the first large-scale museum of its kind. Then there’s also The Petersen Automotive Museum which is one of the world's largest automotive museums, specializing in automobile history and related educational programs. Being in Hollywood they also have a large collection of movie cars. As for the museum building it looks surreal with its red-painted corrugated aluminum rain screen system which acts as the backdrop for a series of stainless steel structural ribbons. Farmers Market & The Grove The complex fills space previously occupied by an orchard and nursery, which were the last remains of a dairy farm owned by A. F. Gilmore in the latter part of the 19th century. The Grove features a large central park with an animated fountain designed by WET. Its music-fountain show plays every hour, though the feature has a non-musical program in between shows. Live shows are often performed there—on the grassy area by the fountains. An internal transit system uses electric-powered trolley cars to link The Grove and the adjacent Farmers Market. The main entertainment venue at the Grove is a 14-screen movie theater complex owned by AMC. The Original Farmers Market, located adjacent to The Grove and owned by the A. F. Gilmore Company, features numerous non-chain restaurants that have existed there for sometimes decades. #miraclemile #labreatarpits #lacma