MELROSE AVENUE

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Essentials about Melrose Avenue in brief

If you like soap operas, you’ll know this street: Melrose Avenue. In reality, Melrose Avenue is one of the most popular shopping and entertainment streets in Los Angeles. It stretches for several kilometers from the Silver Lake neighborhood in the east across Hollywood and finally flows into Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Melrose Avenue is home to an abundance of stores, from upscale boutiques to underground stores, as well as numerous bars and restaurants, cinemas and other entertainment venues. Paramount Pictures, one of the major Hollywood studios, is also located here.

The history of Melrose Avenue

Hardly any other street in Los Angeles has undergone and continues to undergo as much change as Melrose Avenue. Anyone returning to the street after a few years will no longer recognize much of it and will discover many new things. Melrose Avenue’s history as a popular shopping street dates back to the 1980s. Back then, the street made a name for itself as the home of many alternative and independent retailers that contributed a lot to the development of California’s New Wave and punk culture.

Shopping on Melrose Avenue

Today, you can still find many unusual stores on Melrose Avenue, but the street is now also home to many traditional stores and especially luxury stores. Those who have come to LA with a decent shopping budget and like to shop a little more exclusively are in good hands in Melrose Heights at the western end of Melrose Avenue. There you will find the posh boutiques of famous designers like Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang and Vivienne Westwood.

Eating and drinking at Melrose Avenue

Melrose Avenue is also one of Los Angeles’ hotspots when it comes to food and drink. From sidewalk cafés and organic juice bars to sushi and burger restaurants, just about every culinary trend is represented on the street. So if you get hungry during a shopping spree, you won’t go hungry or thirsty on Melrose Avenue anytime soon.

Entertainment on Melrose Avenue

Last but not least, Melrose Avenue is also one of the most important entertainment districts in Los Angeles. There are several comedy clubs along the street, where definitely no laughing muscle remains untrained. There are also a number of movie theaters here. And if you’re a Hollywood enthusiast, you should take a tour of Paramount Pictures Studios on Melrose Avenue, one of the three major Hollywood studios along with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios.