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Universal CityWalk gets the big WTF for what we witnessed in our short 45-minute jaunt to pick up a friend there last night. In that small period of time, there was much to witness: one hiccupping drunk laying on the parking garage men's bathroom floor, three separate fights and one bartender who didn't know how to make a Madras (you know, it doesn't need cranberry juice or anything).
Security with their out-of-place ranger hats definitely did not have a handle on things and the police really need a DUI checkpoint at the exit of this place on a weekend night. This high-tension tourist trap gets a big fat GHETTO from LAist... or maybe it should just be torn down.
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CityWalk was a great idea 15 or even 10 years ago, when places like Old Town Pasadena and the Third Street Promenade were seedy and crime-ridden and Westwood was getting scary. Now that you can even walk around Venice, downtown Long Beach, Ocean Park, and even Koreatown (well, a decent-sized chunk of it, anyway) without having to worry about getting mugged, why bother to go there?
Hey, I like City Walk! It's these stupid teenyboppers who hang out there that make it so annoying sometimes. But I wouldn't want the place to get shut down, hell no!
I absolutely abhor Citiwalk. But I do end up going up there once or twice a week for lunch [i work at the base of citiwalk and there's a shuttle.]
I stopped in to the icky Hot Topic to pick something up. When I told the 18 year old, blue n' red haired girl behind the counter how much i hated Citiwalk she said "why? i love love it!" I just said, "if you don't know why this place sucks, then i can't explain it to you."
THAT explains why HotTopic sucks, right there. I so want to slap those kids sometimes and tell them, "when I was your age, we had to have REAL antiestablishment attitudes to wear what you're wearing!"
I hate CityWalk. IT is the eleventh circle of hell. It represents every negative social aspect of Los Angeles. I consider it pure evil and refuse to go there, and I think Steve Martin could have picked a million better places for peoplewatching venues in Shopgirl. Blech. The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed just across the street from Citywalk, which gave California to America - and THIS is all we can apparently do with it.
So much for pseudo-public architectural style being the answer to all problems... we may have to become a heterogenous society around here....