Weird Hollywood: Your Travel Guide to Hollywood's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

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Author: Joe Oesterle

ISBN-10: 1402754604

ISBN-13: 9781402754609

Category: Folklore & Mythology

Known as the "Movie Capital of the World,” Hollywood is chock-full of offbeat characters, peculiar activities, and strange sightings. With California resident and humorist Joe Oesterle as your guide, meander through bizarre back alleys and darkened theaters, observe the kitschy Singing Chairs of Santa Monica (a pair of 15-foot-tall harmonizing thrones), and take a walk down the haunted Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Weird Hollywood also offers readers a hellaciously fun, historical journey into...

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Known as the “Movie Capital of the World,” Hollywood is chock-full of offbeat characters, peculiar activities, and strange sightings. With California resident and humorist Joe Oesterle as your guide, meander through bizarre back alleys and darkened theaters, observe the kitschy Singing Chairs of Santa Monica (a pair of 15-foot-tall harmonizing thrones), and take a walk down the haunted Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Weird Hollywood also offers readers a hellaciously fun, historical journey into Tinseltown suicide, murder, and mayhem. And who better to preface the tour of this wacky municipality than the Voice of Hollywood himself: Gary Owens.

\ From Barnes & NobleHollywood attracts excessive behavior. In fact, over the past century, the Movie Capital of the World has spawned numerous stories that outflank even the most extreme cinematic creations. In this welcome Weird series installment, California humorist Joe Oesterle acts as guide and raconteur on a trip through Tinseltown's most bizarre settings. Nothing is off limits: Peculiar behavior, unsolved murders, celebrity suicides, weird architecture, and strange shops all appear in this exceedingly weird assemblage.\ \ \