4.0 of 5 stars.
The last thing I would expect is a museum of this kind in the middle of LA. Tar Pits, Sable Tooth Cat bones, together with Mammoth bones and I don't remember how many more species ended there lives…
yelp.com - user review - 06/28/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Generally speaking, the most interesting natural history museums are the ones with the most extensive collections, the ones whose breadths encompass various species from far away times and places. But…
yelp.com - user review - 06/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This review is for the La Brea Tar Pits only, as I have not yet had the pleasure of going into the museum. I love it here. Period. Ever since I saw the movie "My Girl 2" when I was in third grade, I…
yelp.com - user review - 06/12/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It just never gets old.
yelp.com - user review - 06/11/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
So this place always freaked me out when I was a little kid. I didn't believe I would fall in and get stuck in the tar, but I used to get really sad--like to the point of crying--when I would think…
yelp.com - user review - 06/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I visited the Page Museum on my last trip to LA and loved it. I went during the week, so it was pretty quiet apart from a couple of school groups running around. The benefit of that was that you could…
yelp.com - user review - 06/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
When I was a kid, I loved watching Reading Rainbow. In one episode, LaVar Burton (after his role in Roots, and before he was Lt. LaForge) went to LaBrea Tar Pits and I SO wanted to go. My parents,…
yelp.com - user review - 05/30/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I can't eat all the time! Sometimes I need to get my inner Geek on (well most of the time)
yelp.com - user review - 05/27/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you don't know why this is worth 4 stars - then you should really get your butt there and check it out!!!
yelp.com - user review - 05/13/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Being that I've been a trouble-causing violent kid ever since I was born, I refuse to rate anything related to dinosaurs or saber-toothed tigers less than 5 stars. They've got wooly mammoths and…
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I can't vouch for the museum because we didn't think it was worth it to pay the admission fee when the most interesting part of the site was free. Just walking around the tar pits is really…
yelp.com - user review - 04/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
OMG! I had a geek-gasm here. So much fun! Not the Met, not a fancy museum, but very informative and very fun to see. Such history in the middle of the otherwise vapid Los Angeles basin (there goes my…
yelp.com - user review - 04/18/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I was afraid this museum was going to disappoint-geared toward kids and not really all that interesting. Happily, I was wrong. I didn't know sloths used to be (much) larger than grizzly bears. I…
yelp.com - user review - 04/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Ok, so the video about the tar pits is pretty out dated, but there really is quite a lot to see in the museum. Also, lots of really interesting reading about Los Angeles back in the day ;) I had a…
yelp.com - user review - 04/06/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
One of the coolest places in LA to lure someone you hate and throw them in.
yelp.com - user review - 04/03/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Ladies Please define what a cougar is by age, class, sub-class, region, era.
yelp.com - user review - 03/23/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Being new to the LA County this was a place I have always wanted to check out. The lot was full and the cost was $6 if you don't intend to stay longer than 2 hours (you will see everything in less…
yelp.com - user review - 03/17/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Disclosure: I love the Ice Age. This place makes me want to go back in time to before LA was LA and it was occupied Mexico-- oh wait. Nevermind... everyone gobbling up land and claiming little bits…
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
You always see/hear about the La Brea tar pits in movies and whenever anyone goes to LA. Well... all I have to say is "That's it?????". I was so unimpressed and dissapointed. Also, the stupid mammoth…
yelp.com - user review - 03/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I hadn't been to La Brea Tar Pits since our son was a toddler. We used to go there once a year when I was growing up in LA. My childhood memories were of the stinky tar smell and the fear of…
yelp.com - user review - 02/10/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Brings back grade school field trip memories. The Page museum has not changed in appearance since the early eighties. I could of been in a coma since 1981 and would still think I'm living in 1982.…
yelp.com - user review - 01/28/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Took the family here on a wet, rainy afternoon. Never been here before but heard so much about it. Amazing how something so interesting and historic can be in the middle of all the urban sprawl.
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The tar pits get five stars for novelty and nostalgia and for providing a totally welcome break from the massive concrete buildings on Wilshire.
yelp.com - user review - 01/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Looking for a cool, unusual way to kill an afternoon? Tired of the same old hipster diner lunchch spots? Seriously interested in prehistoric mammels and think dinosaurs are over-rated? If any of the…
yelp.com - user review - 12/28/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
If you're looking for an awesomely somewhat outdated museum about giant sloths and sabretooth tigers, this is the place to go! Some favorite parts are the HUGE wall covered with dire wolf skulls, the…
yelp.com - user review - 12/16/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I remember coming here when I was a kid as a field trip..and my first reaction was "EWW.. it's stinky".... This place is stinky and just not a place I would ever want to take a trip to.. to consider…
yelp.com - user review - 11/28/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I *love* the tar pits. I can't explain why but I always like to slow to a stop when I'm in the area and it brings back elementary school field trips - which seems like forever ago - when in actuality…
yelp.com - user review - 10/17/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Such a weird, morbid thing. I love it. The distressed fiberglass mastodons really f*ed me up when I was a kid. Now, I can (and do) spend hours watching the mother raise her tusks to the sky in…
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I don't know why it's so cool, but it really is. The tar pits are kind of hypnotizing, a bit like ancient history trying to escape into the future. It's def. worth the visit.
yelp.com - user review - 09/19/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
La Brea Tar Pits is another great place and reason to love LA. People always complain about it, but yet, they are great things and places to see here and La Brea Tar Pits is one of them. Not only you…
yelp.com - user review - 09/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
given that there are 43 other reviews theres not much more for me to add on except to say go there if you get a chance! a very unique museum indeed
yelp.com - user review - 09/08/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
wow!! this is one of the places i never made it to when i actually lived in LA. it's such a great educational place -- i'd never learned so much from a museum before. like, the tar in the lake is…
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have to add my tar pit anecdote. A friend and I were sitting on a bench outside the tar pit after spending a couple hours at the neighborhing LACMA. There was an informational sign posted on the…
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
first, my boyfriend is totally convinced that they're fake. second, my sister and i love to have picnics in the park around them. third, the statues are so fug you'll love taking pictures with them.…
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Bubble Bubble...Bubble Bubble... Oh no! Why the hell is there an elephant in Hollywood? And what is he doing in the tar?!? Wait, it's a life sized replica (as pictured), phew!
yelp.com - user review - 08/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Finally visited this place & really liked it :-). My boyfriend & I went about an hour before they close so we didn't have to pay the entry fee!!! NIIICE...since it didn't even take us a full hour to…
yelp.com - user review - 07/25/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Only the museum charges an entry fee!!! The rest of the exhibits do not charge. I had to learn this the hard way. Although $7 was a small fee for the museum, I came to look at the tar pits. I was…
yelp.com - user review - 07/17/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
You haven't seen mastodon pathos until you come here.
yelp.com - user review - 07/16/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
I came here once when I was ten and thought it was the coolest thing ever. However, a recent visit while doing the touristy thing with some friends visiting LA left me wanting more. WAY more. The…
yelp.com - user review - 07/10/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It's the pits. It's so crazy how there's remains of the last Ice Age in the middle of Los Angeles. If I were about 20 yrs younger, I would have appreciated the tar pits a lot more. Woolly mammoths?…
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My budding paleontologist will tell you that no dino would be found here, but he loved the vist and included in the cost of the entry was a free outdoor walking tour with a very enthusiastic guide.…
yelp.com - user review - 06/11/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
As a delusional child this place actually made me think I wanted to spend the rest of life digging dinosaur bones out of tar and dirt. Of course now I know that not only do I not want to spend the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/22/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Never thought visiting a pit of smelly bubbling black goo could be so much fun. It's also fun to roll down the grassy knoll. Even when sober.
yelp.com - user review - 05/20/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
There's a pit of tar in the middle of the city. How cool is that?
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
one word: methane I lived in Park La Brea (off Burnside) for about a year. what do I remember most? the smell...
yelp.com - user review - 04/22/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm just too jealous - every city should have its own burbling pool of primordial, pestilential ooze. Festering here for tens of thousands of years like an enormous syphilitic chancre, the totally…
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I went on a free day, the first Tuesday of the month. My companions and I agreed that it was a little depressing to see the fake baby mammoth crying for its mother, sinking in the tar. It was pretty…
yelp.com - user review - 04/03/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I live across the street from the tar pits (and no, not in Park La Brea, gross). I often forget how much I love them, maybe it's the fact that the elevator shafts in my building have tar seeping in,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It was boiling hot on Saturday. You remember, you were there! Anyway, friends in town, what to do, what to do? Head over to the bubbling, oozing park that smells like a freshly re-done roof, of course!…
yelp.com - user review - 03/13/2007
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It's not enough to just visit the tar pits- you get so much more out of it if you visit the museum next to the ...
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm a sap (ha!) for the tar pits. And I watched that giant sloth sculpture for about fifteen minutes and IT NEVER ONCE MOVED. Damn those things were slow. Please note that the cartoon film that they…
yelp.com - user review - 02/13/2007
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The La Brea Tar Pits are an excellent place to go if you want to learn about things such as the wooly mammoths of ancient ...
gusto.com - user review - 02/04/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
The LaBrea Tar Pits sounded so good, particularly since my nieces and nephew, who came in from out of town, are really into the whole dinasaurs stuff. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a disappointment.…
yelp.com - user review - 01/16/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Super let down. I threw my gum in the tar, and it splashed like water? hello, tar viscosity? plus, the prehistoric creature statues are floating around in the tar like beach toys. I like the campus,…
yelp.com - user review - 01/03/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
this place is better know (and reviewed http://www.yelp.com/biz/1c6ECw6TDIk32OiX3VU2FA) as the La Brea Tar Pits. The Page Museum is the structure that is adjacent to the putrid black water congealed…
yelp.com - user review - 12/28/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Tar pits in the heart of LA? You bet, baby. This place is fascinating and educational. After you park, you walk by a fenced in tar pit that is still bubbling. These tar pits trapped creatures long…
yelp.com - user review - 12/23/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
i love dinosaurs (i own the entire "walking with dinosaurs" series) and i'm a sucker for museums, but i just was not impressed by the la brea tar pits. first of all, it seemed more like a park and…
yelp.com - user review - 12/08/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you live in LA then you must must must visit the Tar Pits at LEAST once!! It would be like living in Arizona and completely neglecting the Grand Canyon. Oh wait...I went to school in Tucson and…
yelp.com - user review - 12/08/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The tar pits are awesome. Not only is there real, satisfyingly disgusting tar, but it's in a nice park with hilarious statuary (the grizzly is my favorite). As others have suggested, you really have…
yelp.com - user review - 11/11/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
So I never understood why people went here, but I figured you hae to reenact MyGirl you know? So we went and oddly enough it's really mesmorising to see the bublles come up from under the tar. I can't…
yelp.com - user review - 11/03/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The only time that the smell of tar does not particularly offend. I mean, you drive by some roofers and you can't breath through your nose but here it is kinda... nice? Sabre tooth tigers! Mammoths!…
yelp.com - user review - 10/19/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i like the tar pull where you can see how hard it really is to get out of the tar! also the lab in the middle where the real live scientists are working and the case full of may be like a million…
yelp.com - user review - 09/30/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I remember coming here as a child once during a music convention at UCLA. And as Anita pointed out, it was rather a strange way to decipher how something so gooey and muddy would be able to drown a…
yelp.com - user review - 09/12/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
VERY interesting place to go! Kids love this place. Of course, you don't have to have children to go there! I've been here a few times and it never gets old!
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The actual tar pits are a little boring but there is one amazing thing that I've recently discovered at the tar pits. . .you can poke tar with a stick. I'm not kidding. The tar just bubbles up in the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2006
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Contrary to popular belief, this museum isn't about dinosaurs; it's about animals in the Pleistocene...
judysbook.com - user review - 03/21/2006
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I grew up in LA and remember my mom taking us to the La Brea Tar Pits in the '70's. Of course, back...
judysbook.com - user review - 03/20/2006
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Honestly, I don't know why this place is so popular for tourists and new locals? When people come t...
judysbook.com - user review - 02/25/2006
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Wow this place sucks.
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If ever you needed proof that LA has a greasy underbelly, this place is it (sorry, couldn't resist). The tarpits and the page museum are a great reminder of the fact that much of LA still sits on…
yelp.com - user review - 02/01/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I wanted to visit the tar pits my entire life. I finally made it as a side trip / distraction one afternoon while I visited my grandmother who was in the last stages of cancer. It was a welcome few…
yelp.com - user review - 01/14/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Yeah, the tar pits are actaully pretty cool. When I first went, and was new to LA, the main Tar Pit was slightly depressing, for it wasn't filled with decaying Wooly Mamouths(except for a statue of…
yelp.com - user review - 01/12/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is so fun! I love nothing more than visiting museums and this one is a great one in the middle of Los Angeles. Sure, there aren't any Monets or Rodan's here... but you can't beat natural…
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It was so exciting to see the Tar Pits the first time, right in the middle of the city. I'd read about it as a kid, and there it was in front of me. The museum is geared toward elementary school…
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2006
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I went there by accident on a day that I wanted to go to the LACMA but it was closed. La Brea tar P...
judysbook.com - user review - 12/17/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is another fun area to visit. The tar pits are fun to look at for about 5 minutes, but there are also a bunch of really cool museums right around here--including this really awesome art museum.…
yelp.com - user review - 11/29/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Man, I remember going to the tar pits when I was a little kid. I don't know why I thought it was so cool, but I convinced my parents to buy me a book from the gift shop, so that must mean something.
yelp.com - user review - 10/29/2005
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I think the La Brea Tar Pits have been in business for years, as I used to visit there as a kid. Th...
judysbook.com - user review - 10/21/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have loved this place since I was little...what was better than a field trip to the tarpits? These days I'm lucky enough to be able to walk here from my apartment with a picnic...pick a spot in the…
yelp.com - user review - 09/28/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It's quite amusing that the Tar Pits, so ancient and amorphous, has an address, on Wilshire no less. Perhaps the tar pit alone wouldn't be a wonderous sight, just a smelly pond of bubbly black goo.…
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place seriously freaked me out the first time I went there. I just couldn't believe that there was a tar pit slap in the middle of Los Angeles. The images of the animals trapped are also really…
yelp.com - user review - 07/03/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
What more can you say/ You're smack dab in the middle of LA and you got bubbling tar all around you! Is the road melting from the heat, are you delirious from the smog, or is this just some weird…
yelp.com - user review - 06/27/2005
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