My shirt is so intense. Did you remember to wear a nude bra? Yes.
Hey guys! Hellew. Welcome back. I'm Tara. I'm Natalie and this is Natalie and Tara Try Stuff.
Yay! Woo! Today we are going on an adventure.
We had a suggestion last year from a viewer to go to the Hollywood sign.
I tried to track down the original suggestion but I could not find it so if it was you please comment so we
can give you proper credit for this suggestion. But. Addendum. I don't know if
the Hollywood sign is enough of an adventure but we decided to take that
suggestion and make it more complicated. Oh yeah, because we can't do anything plain.
Every time we go on one of our trips I always look at three different
sites to find little fun things to do and one of them is AtlasObscura.com
So we thought about, "oh let's do a Hollywood tourist thing. Let's look at
Atlas Obscura. What's the Hollywood stuff?" There's a list of a hundred and
sixty-two things to do in Los Angeles. We can't tackle that whole thing.
What we've decided to do is this year we want to go to 50 of them. So we've got the top 50
and we're gonna start checking them off the list and this is Chapter One of our Atlas Obscura Adventure.
Can they do it? Can they see 50 locations and one year?
Today we are going downtown. Downtown Where all the lights are- god dammit!
We would give you the list of what we're doing but hey, this intro is long enough moving on.
Let's go.
This lighting is terrible.
Yeah it is really bad.
Put your head back like this. That's great. Theres good lighting right here. Just angle it.
We are at the Last Book Store in downtown LA. It's not the last of the book stores. It's not the last one ever.
It's actually called The Last Book Store. This is number- four on the list- on our list.
Um, and the cool thing about this place is that it used to be a bank and they
turned it into a bookstore so there's actually still the vault and stuff.
But like an old-school bank and not like a new bank so it was like- No no not Wells Fargo-
It's got like these gorgeous ceilings and you know it's awesome staircases and stuff like that.
Cool architecture. So, uh, let's take a look.
Guys! All of our problems are solved. We're gonna be rich. This trip, very profitable.
I'm really not impressed with The Last Bookstore. No? No. I like the arty part.
It was yeah, but the thing was, if you're gonna make it artsy so that you
can, like, picture opps type of thing, then do lighting that you can actually take pictures in.
it wasn't one or the other. Like you can't find the books cuz they're not organized. You can look at cool pretty books.
So if you want like eyeball candy? Like maybe. This guy wants to be in our- Hi!
Yeah, I mean, I don't hate it but I just didn't- I was like "oh, that's what the hypes all about?"
If you're already downtown worth it, but not worth it just coming for that. For sure. For sure. Next thing.
We are in the Bradbury Building. Mm-hmm. A buildings built, when was it built?
I don't know. Oh, don't know. Put the date right there. Yup. Correction.
So this Architect was asked to make this building but he wasn't gonna do it, and then he decided
to ask his dead brother in a seance if it was acceptable.
And his dead brother was like Totally do it. And I think the results are-
Thats what it his dead brother sounds like from beyond the grave. "Yeah, totally do it." "Yeah, totally do it, dude.
I think I'm glad he made it cuz it's freaking gorgeous.
A cool point of interest is that this building is featured in a lot of movies including
Blade Runner. Insert clip of Blade Runner here Tara.
How come everywhere we go the lighting is terrible?
What is this? Don't you know? Don't you I'm filmning? Don't you know I'm already cranky too? - I've been in a cranky day -
She needs medicine... but I mean whiskey. It's sugar or whiskey it's only thing that gonna help us.
We're downtown Los Angeles and people annoy the F*** outta me.
We're gonna take flight with some angels. I feel like- so there's a little trolley
that goes up this hill. You see? That's Angels Flight.
I think it just because you're lazy. Like I mean thats a pretty steep hill, I get it.
Yeah, it's not, it's not going very far. But it's not that many steps either.
I probably could could do it. I got a bad knee. True. I gotta bum knee, I don't wanna do it.
I gotta bum knee. We're gonna take the next one. Oh here it comes.
it says 111 years. it is the shortest railway in the world.
I planned this out pretty well so that uh, we took the stairs down.
We are at Clifton's. Which is a cafeteria style eatery. Our food looks amazing. Oh my god I cant wait! We'll show you.
The place is themed. It's a redwood theme.t's so cute. I'm in love.
It's friggin adorable. We haven't explored yet. We're gonna have lunch and then we're going to explore so lets-
Wanna see what were eating- Let's see what were eating.
Mac and cheese, amazing mashed potatos, there's a ham plate situation, jalapeno cornbread but
look at this thing- egg salad and the cutest chocolate pudding I have ever seen.
Let me get my chicken salad in on that. Alright.
Natalie got a little baby chicken salad and it came in a little tiny pot. Shes tryin to keep it.
She got the same lunch. You know, it looks like the best thing.
I ordered first, so Tara copied me. Well, it but- Copy cat!
I'm obsessed. It was adorable. I'm in love. It was so cute and, just...
There was a little hidden [nooky nooks] bobcat!
Stuffed animals. I'm gonna say, so far, out of everything-
[That's my favorite] - we've done, this is so worth it. Come here. Go there. Get the cactus pudding.
The cactus pudding. Alright, next stop. Next thing!
Bonus! You dont have to say bonus.
You're going to write that on the screen. I know I just like saying it.
We're at the Velveteria which is a museum dedicated to velvet paintings.
Our personal favorite thing. I'm excited about this one.
It's, how many did they say they had? Three thousand! Three thousand velvet paintings.
I'm a big fan of velvet paintings actually. When I was a kid, this
is ridiculous, when I was a kid they made those ones, remember, that you could color?
Oh yeah! Remember those? I would put them on the wall and what I would do is I would go
up to I'm gonna rub it and then I hit it and I'd watch it fall down the white wall.
So eventually all my velvet paintings were bald.
I wont touch anything in there. And lets go. And now we're going in.
So the guy here actually teaches classes in velvet painting, and I think...
Tara wants to come back and do it. I wanna take a class. but I am NOT like, I can't paint to begin with.
You can do it! You can do it. What makes you think I can paint on Velvet?
Like thats the next level. There's like, it's a raised effect. Well let's start with level one.
Bob Ross. Bob Ross is level one? He shows you what to do. He shows you what to do.
Who wants to see us paint Bob Ross? Nobody. Nobody cares. Just you.
Whoa. Hee hee. I love it.
My shirt is so intense.
Look how like- Oh wow! - like on the cameras its intense.
Look at our smiles. I, you know, a career in colgate is lookin better and better.
Did you remember to wear a nude bra? Yes.
okay pamphlet ta us out it's my jam yeah it's always my jam
so bonus we're on oliveira streets we drove by it while we were downtown and
we found out Tara had ever been so we had two amazing successful adventure of
our Atlas obscure adventure day 1 day 1 part 1 success in the books only 45 more
obscurus to go to
all right I'll try to be a better mood next I'm Tara I'm Adam and this was
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