welcome to madison's hollywood tour seven years running and several satisfied friends and family
members i'm madison this is my husband ivan and along with us for the tour today
are my sister-in-law jessie and our friend zach having done this tour so many times over the past
seven years i thought i had it pretty down but as you're about to see in the past few years
things have changed quite a lot like any hollywood tour we're starting at hollywood boulevard
but before we start one thing that luckily hasn't changed is my favorite place to find free parking
locals might hate me for sharing this with you but you can usually find free street
parking on fuller street near the runyon canyon trailhead but our first official stop is at the
tcl chinese theater there's a lot of stories about how this handprint footprint tradition came to be
most of them involve a celebrity at some point accidentally stepping in wet concrete and just
embracing it signing it and everybody saying that was amazing let's do it again
here we see the first change on the tour hopefully just due to current times they have
all of the handprints and footprints blocked off definitely touching the handprints like
i am in this picture isn't currently safe so i totally understand but it does get so crowded at
the barrier that they've used to block this all off that you can't really take in much
another change but hopefully only temporarily part of the tour are these piano stairs that
are typically turned on and you can play the piano as you walk up and down
now we've entered the hollywood highland mall which i always find super hilarious
because the oscars are held here at the dolby theater so what you're watching when you watch
these celebs on the red carpet is literally the celebrities walking through the mall
here you can see every best picture winner ever on display
this was one of the saddest changes of the tour no the candy store is gone sweet candy shop
closed its doors for good in 2020 home of the m&m portrait of eminem a design your own candy
bar section and where you got to get free old-fashioned candy and watch it being made
one of my favorite things that hasn't changed here on hollywood boulevard is the outdoor portion of
the mall it's beautiful and it features an art piece that i working in the entertainment industry
have always absolutely loved it's called the road to hollywood by erica rothenberg and it features
quotes from people from all sides of the industry talking about how they got where they are today
and it ends facing the hollywood sign and is just an awesome reflection of the hollywood
dream
i am confident that no matter how much changes there are always going to be interesting things
going on in hollywood like spiderman kylo ren and catwoman just hanging out or snow white offering
jack sparrow and a different spider-man her apple you can see the liquor store that wouldn't sell
me alcohol on my 21st birthday or another shocking change my first apartment that has been completely
demolished and a new one built in this place you can even see where i got my first parking ticket
okay back to the actual tour there are so many random museums to look at
ghirardelli was closed but if they reopen you can walk in get a free chocolate and
take a peek into the el capitan theater where they do lots of disney premieres and it's just
beautiful historic place next we venture over to melrose for the insta-famous paul smith pink wall
a weird change here was a security guard that told us that only phone
cameras were allowed when we tried to pull out our normal camera that we use
also on melrose the sad empty four lease building that was once the kardashians super
cute dash boutique and the most exciting stop milk bar there are other milk bars in the world
but this is the only one in california everything we've ever tried here is insane i highly recommend
the milk bar pie the corn cookies and on a hot day the cereal milk soft serve
the last stop on the tour is the griffith observatory and the final change of the tour
is that the griffith observatory is closed and despite the fact that the observatory
itself is closed parking now costs 15 dollars we parked for free down the hill and hiked up about
a quarter mile to see the amazing views of the city the hollywood sign and griffith observatory
hey guys jessica here reporting what's up i'm at griffith
hey zach hello this is your one-on-one interview okay how are you liking today so far so good i'd
have to say yeah we've gotten to do some cool things today goodbye hollywood thanks for the
memories turn around and say hi to the camera all of you at the same time madison and zach
oh great footage on what may be our last hollywood boulevard tour for a long time
we saw that hollywood has changed a lot since i moved here seven years ago which was sad and weird
and somehow comforting big changes are happening in our lives right now and embracing change can be
hard we can find ourselves clinging to the known this tour reminded me that change is inevitable
the life and world that we think we know has probably changed without you even realizing it
so when big scary change knocks at your door might as well embrace it and let it
have positive effects on your life because if you cling to the past you'll eventually realize
it's already gone and our time on this hollywood boulevard tour is gone hope you enjoyed it please
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