Cheap & Cheerful Déja Vu - Downtown

If these walls could talk! The Bradbury Building (304 South Broadway) is the oldest commercial building in Los Angeles. Commissioned in 1893, it may just look like an well kept older building from the outside, but step inside and you will have the definite feeling that you have been here before.

And you have, as the interior featuring a five-story central court of glazed brick, polished wood, with cage elevators surrounded by wrought-iron grillwork, capped by an immense skylight has been featured in numerous films, television shows and music videos.

While I was introduced to the Bradbury Building by the 1982 film "Blade Runner" it also appeared in final scene of last year's "500 Days of Summer". Or you could have seen it in "Double Indemnity", "77 Sunset Strip" "Wolf" "DOA" "Mission Impossible" Pushing Daisies" or a host of other shows.

Long story short, it is a must see. Even the most jaded tourist walks away impressed. But don't take my word for it.

The Bradbury Building is open Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm; Saturday and Sunday 9:00am-5:00pm

213/626-1893

http://www.laconservancy.org/tours/downtown/bradbury.php4