Shopping And Services In Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA - Shopping And Services
The Beverly Center is a shopping center in Los Angeles, CA. It is located in a monolithic eight-story building situated in Beverly Hills, near West Hollywood. The Center serves the entire Los Angeles area. The mall's tenants include Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and a multi-screen theater. Also present are such retail outlets as Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, Dolce and Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior and Hugo Boss. The mall's terrace offers a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles.
The mall caters to the upscale customer and the existent stores and boutiques that are more expensive than those in the usual shopping center. The innovative escalators, which are now being renovated, previously looked like escalators at Paris' elaborate Pompidou Center.
The Beverly Center opened its doors in 1982, and contained the nation's first Hard Rock Cafe, the second in existence after the London original. The Center was originally anchored by Bullock's and The Broadway department stores, before both were absorbed into Macy's in the late 1990's.
Some random insights into the Center's history include the fact that the site was once utilized for a small amusement park featuring a Ferris wheel and pony rides, called Kiddyland. In 1985 a number of scenes from the movie Chopping Mall were shot at the Beverly Center. The 1985 work of fiction Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis contained a chapter set in the shopping center.
The Center was the principal setting for the early '90s movie Scenes from a Mall, which featured Bette Midler and Woody Allen. While being constructed, the mall was used as the backdrop for the film Lipstick in 1976.
The shopping center also had a role in the storyline near the finish of the 1997 disaster film Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. A triage area and childcare center for Cedars-Sinai Hospital was established in the mall's Hard Rock Cafe. In the movie, the area was evacuated when lava erupted nearby, threatening the building and occupants. Lastly, singer Crispin Hellion Glover references the Beverly Center in his song, Auto-Manipulator.
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Matt Paolini is an economics writer for CityBook, the family-safe Los Angeles Yellow Pages, which carries an extensive directory on Los Angeles shopping and services
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