  NORTH HOLLYWOOD Once known as the town of Toluca, North Hollywood is where performing artists work. Now called NoHo, the area centered around Lankershim and Magnolia is home to a large theater district, dozens of rehearsal and recording studios and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization that presents the Emmys. There are also a handful of art galleries on Lankershim. The antihesis of LA's current SUV culture is celebrated at the Metropolitan Pit Stop Museum, 5330 Laurel Canyon Blvd. at Weddington Street, where several mint condition Nash Metropolitans are on display. Also in North Hollywood is theValhalla Memorial Park Cemetery at Victory and Cahuenga boulevards where you'll find the graves of Curly Joe DeRita, of the Three Stooges; Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy; and Eddy Polo, an actor, stuntman and the first person to parachute off the Eiffel Tower. The cemetery also features the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, a 75-foot marble and mosaic structure where several pioneers in aviation are buried. |
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