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Sixty-six percent of Westwood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high figure for both the city and the county. The percentages of residents of that age with a master's degree or higher was the third-highest in the county. [6] [52] Westwood is home to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Namesake Alice's Restaurant in Sky Londa, California. Alice's Restaurant of Sky Londa, California, founded in the 1960s, was originally founded by Alice Taylor with no connection to Alice Brock. Subsequent owners of the restaurant kept the original name as a homage to the song, eventually adding a "Group W bench," because the name had made the ...
Westwood Boulevard begins south of Sunset Boulevard in the campus of UCLA as Westwood Plaza. After exiting UCLA , it is one of two major thoroughfares in Westwood Village . Its intersection with Wilshire Boulevard is one of the busiest in Los Angeles, with seven through lanes and four left turn lanes (going east/west).
Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83.
Hollis Johnson's, the cozy, 1950s-style diner in back of the Westwood Drug Store, hosted Jerry West, John Wooden and a collection of UCLA stars.
The 1994 USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle, Woodside, California shows it spelled Sky Londa. [2] Maps recorded as early as 1909 show it as Sky L'onda apparently derived from the crossroad names Skyline Boulevard and Woodside-La Honda Road. The 7.5-minute quadrangle, Woodside, California, (1994), shows Woodside VOR north of the settlement. The aircraft ...
Westwood is the site of the Walker family mansion and statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The "Bizz" Johnson Trail, ends 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Westwood, at Mason Station. Named for Harold T. Johnson, U.S. Congressman from California, the rail trail follows the 24.5 miles (39.4 km) Fernley and Lassen Railway right-of-way. [25]
Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song " Alice's Restaurant Massacree ", originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie . The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock. [ 3 ]