Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

Attractions and cultural resourcesSanta Monica BeachSanta Monica Civic Auditorium, designed by Welton Becket in 1958. Home of theOscars award ceremony from 1961 to 1968.The Monica, on 2nd Street, remains a popular place to catch an artsy flick.The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It sitson the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in 1909. The La Monica Ballroom on the pierwas once the largest ballroom in the US, and the source for many New Year's Evenational network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an importantmusic venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s.McCabe's Guitar Shop is still a leading acoustic performance space. Bergamot Station isa city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Thecity is also home to the Santa Monica Heritage Museum.Its two hospitals are Saint Johns and the Santa Monica Medical Center. Its cemetery isWoodlawn Memorial.The oldest theater in the city is the 1912 Majestic, also known as the Mayfair Theatre,closed since the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The Aero Theater (now operated by theAmerican Cinematheque) and Criterion Theater were built in the 1930s and still showmovies. The Santa Monica Promenade alone supports more than two dozen moviescreens.Palisades Park stretches out on the crumbling bluffs overlooking the Pacific and is afavorite walking area to view the ocean. It features a camera obscura. For 48 years localchurches and the Police Association assembled a twelve-tableau story of Christmas in