“ A trip along Western serves up a distillation of the city–Hollywood, Sunset and Melrose; Florence, Normandie and Adams; Artesia, Gardena and PCH–a compilation of L.A.’s greatest hits. One of the city’s longest thoroughfares, rivaled only by Sunset in demographic and topographic diversity.
—Mary Mcnamara, “Exploring L.A.’s Asphalt Soul,” L.A. Times, 1999
