Thursday morning, after breakfast sandwiches, fruit and coffee courtesy of Wagon master Shirley Newton, we boarded the bus for a guided tour of LA highlights. First stop was Alvaro street, L.A.'s original settlement by the Spanish, and then the La Brea Tar Pits, where many prehistoric animal bones have emerged from nature's own rising natural gas and asphalt. Then it was on to the Farmer's Market, where we enjoyed lunch and touring The Grove high end shopping area. The Market has become gentrified from the old days, according to locals, with supermarket and boutique style food stores along with souvenir and other types of shops. The food court is upscale with complete lunches along with the usual burger and ice cream emporiums. Next we visited the old Kodak theater, now the Dolby Theater, where they used
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