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Specialty Retailers abound in the year, some on freeways). Visitors
Valley: two in Sherman Oaks are see the evolution of things we
Freakbeat Records take for granted, like gear shifts
http://www.freakbeatrecords.com/ (first put on a steering wheel in
, a venerable source of 1904) and foot pedals (a 1913
inexpensive recordings in every Mercedes had five). In the
form, and Psychic Eye background, player pianos and
https://www.facebook.com/psychi music boxes entertained with
ceye/ for all things paranormal. glorious sound quality (one
Another couple in Burbank are Baldwin upstairs automatically
Halloween Town played the paper roll recording of
http://www.halloweentownstore.c Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
om/, for those who celebrate as the composer performed it
fright nights year-round (see live). There are all kinds of other
photo), and Autobooks- surprising items, from 18th
A e r o b o o k s century robotic dolls to a working
h t t p s : / / w w w. a u t o b o o k s - steam locomotive outdoors.
aerobooks.com/, which has
everything from Cruise Night by In the main hall, the automobiles
Kristin Bedford (scenes from have been restored to their
lowrider culture) to the three- original brilliant colors and the
volume Space Shuttle: Devel- centerpiece (see photo) is a 1933
oping an Icon. Duesenberg Torpedo Sedan,
plated with nickel that shines like
Few Angelenos have even heard silver ("it's a doozy," meaning
of a museum that has made Top awesome, derives from the
10 lists for visitors: The "duesy"). It won the Best in Show
Nethercutt Collection at the Pebble Beach Concours
https://www.nethercuttcol- 1980, the Olympics of classic
lection.org/ in Sylmar. We were cars, and is insured for $14
skeptical as we drove through million.
one of the less scenic parts of the
Valley to see a placed being The final part of the tour took
2 touted for its vintage cars (the place in a hall devoted to
Petersen Automotive Museum automated musical instruments,
isn't enough?), organs (does including player violins and
anyone still play them?), and massive orchestrions (used to
gramaphones (we weren't even provide music for dance halls or
exactly sure what they were). And silent movies without having to
yet something most have hire an orchestra). For the finale,
provoked those rave reviews our guide played a Wurlizter
about what had been collected organ that has 5,000 pipes. Our
thanks to the fortune of the Merle jaws dropped, eyes bulged, and
Norman cosmetics empire We ears were titillated for the entire
reluctantly signed up for a two time we were there.
hour guided tour, worried that if
we were bored we would have no There are plenty of other things to
escape. As it turned out, the occupy several weekends,
Nethercut really is a world-class including tours of the working
museum devoted to preserving Warner Brothers Studio in
"functional art" masterpieces. Burbank, visits to the historic
3 4 Mission San Fernando, seeing
We started out back to the future, the planes close-up at the
admiring steam and electric cars Burbank Aviation Museum, and
from the late 19th and early 20th listening to jazz at the Baked
centuries (every vehicle is taken Potato in Studio City.
out on the roads at least once a

1 Valley Relics Museum
2 Descanso Gardens
3 Halloween Town
4 The Nethercutt Collection – 1933 Duesenberg Torpedo Sedan
5 The Great Wall of Los Angeles - Mural
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