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08/04/2015 5:59 am
PIC ... We really enjoyed this... and can't wait to go back..
The Getty in LA.
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08/04/2015 6:54 am
Jerry, is that a house, museum, or what is it?
08/04/2015 8:19 am
It's the servants' quarters on my estate...!!! I hope they're not too crammed in...LOL
08/04/2015 8:57 am
Ken, it is the Getty Center located in Brentwood CA ....
... just out of LA. Betty and I did the San Diego 1/2 Marathon Walk/Run in 2011 and decided to spend our week at the Newport Beach Resort afterward. This museum has always been high on her list, so we spent an entire day and still did not see it all.
Below is the WIKIPEDIA description of the museum.
It is free entry but there is a $15 fee for parking. The restaurant has pretty good food and the view from the top of this hill is awesome.
We plan to take the grands out next year for this, a Dodgers games, Disneyland and as many car shows as I can find.
Also I'll look up the CA D4C guys too... Marlowe? Paul?
I highly recommend this.
In 1974, J. Paul Getty opened a museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Pacific Palisades, California.[4] In 1982, the museum became the richest in the world when it inherited US$1.2 billion.[5] In 1983, after an economic downturn in what was then West Germany, the Getty Museum acquired 144 illuminated medieval manuscripts from the financially struggling Ludwig Collection in Aachen; John Russell, writing in the New York Times, said of the collection, "One of the finest holdings of its kind ever assembled, it is quite certainly the most important that was in private hands."[6] In 1997, the museum moved to its current location in Brentwood; the Pacific Palisades museum, renamed the "Getty Villa", was closed for renovation until 2006.
08/04/2015 9:16 am
It looks like a scale model from where I'm sitting. Maybe I'm too caught up in 1:24.
John Bono
North Jersey
08/04/2015 9:36 am
Jerry, go to this web site to find car shows and cruises in Southern California.
You won't have time for for the Getty or Disneyland!
http://www.socalcarculture.com/index.htm
08/04/2015 11:17 am
Jerry, I thought it was ERCOT's new headquarters!
08/04/2015 11:30 am
LOL Robert ... I can only grin and can't comment!! Enjoying retirement?
08/04/2015 11:53 am
Robert - thanks for this..
I do hope that I'm fully retired by June 2016 so we can do it all.
We are talking 2 weeks in LA, SD and all between with the grandboys. Then we'll fly them back to Houston.
Then Betty and I will start a slow ride to Calgary.
It is early plans yet.
We do live in a great country and I hope we see it all.
08/04/2015 12:10 pm
No it's real ... very much real
08/04/2015 1:05 pm
Jerry, definitely try to get in touch with me while you're in LA.
marlowemar(at)aol.com
08/04/2015 1:24 pm
Our street (Mandeville Canyon) was just ten minutes away north on Sunset blvd...no traffic of cours