LOS ANGELES ON FOOT:
Show Bizz is Shoe Bizz
Story and photography
by Margaret & Eric Anderson

You come down on the little cable car Angels Flight made famous by Michael Connelly's last knockout crime novel of that name, and through the Grand Central Market with all its ethnic stalls including the Jones Grain Mill with its herbal wonders that carry the encouraging legends: "Only Cure for Colds in USA."

LA even has tours for joggers. Off 'N Running Tours offer guided three to eight mile running tours through downtown, to where else? through Beverly Hills. It costs $45 but they throw in a T shirt and a runner's breakfast. Too strenuous? You can walk other places.

Among the stars on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, where more than 2,000 markers now grace the sidewalk. You'll find Marilyn at #1644 Hollywood Boulevard and Elvis at #6777. James Dean is at # 1719 Vine and John Lennon at #1750 Vine.

And like the exhibits of extinct mammals at the La Brea Tar pits in Hancock Park the words on the funeral vaults remind us of the impermanence of fame -- and the uncertainty of life.

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