Stride StoriesRunning tour · Los Angeles
Stadium to the Movie Palaces
5.5 mi run
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The stories on this route
Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine
Look up at Dodger Stadium: stacked decks and hexagonal scoreboards, rising out of terraced parking, with downtown's towers to the south.
Olvera Street and the Plaza
Look for the low, whitewashed house with the plank veranda, on the brick lane of stalls running off the Plaza. That's the Avila Adobe, built in 1818 by Francisco Avila. It's the oldest existing house in Los Angeles, and its adobe walls were about three feet thick.
Union Station
Look along the long, cream walls and red tile roofs, 850 feet of them, and up at the clock tower, 125 feet high. This is Union Station.
Los Angeles City Hall
Look up at the white tower, the colonnade, and the stepped pyramid on top. That pyramid was meant as a streamlined version of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the ancient wonders.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Look up at the curving, sail-like steel walls over the corner of Grand and 1st. This is Walt Disney Concert Hall, and it was meant to be stone.
Angels Flight
Look up from Hill Street: a cream-coloured arch with ANGELS FLIGHT across it, and two orange-and-black wooden cars climbing a steep trestle. Watch them meet halfway. They pass with only four inches to spare.
The Bradbury Building and Grand Central Market
Look at the corner of Broadway and 3rd: a modest five-storey front of brick and sandstone, with arched windows up top. From out here, you'd never guess what's inside.
The Broadway theatres
Look along Broadway: marquees and tall vertical signs, block after block. Twelve movie palaces built between 1910 and 1931 still line this stretch. It's described as the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
The Central Library
Look up at the library's central tower: a tiled pyramid with suns on its sides, and at the very top, a hand holding a torch. It stands for the Light of Learning.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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