Silver Lake, California

Everything Silver Lake is known for

1 song mention this city 1 artist from here

Music in Silver Lake

Songs About Silver Lake

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dave alvin & jimmie dale gilmore
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Artists From Silver Lake

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Local Natives
rock Pop: 55

Rivers & Roads in Song near Silver Lake

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Silver Lake.

U.S. Route 66 11 songs U.S. Route 101 7 songs Interstate 5 13 songs Interstate 10 23 songs Interstate 405 4 songs

Musical Heritage

The Capitol Records Tower RoadyGoat

1956

The Capitol Records Building rises at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, a 13-story cylinder of curved white floors that's often likened to a stack of records on a turntable, though architect Louis Naidorf has said that resemblance wasn't actually his intent. Completed in 1956, it was among the first round office towers built. Atop its 90-foot spire, a red beacon has blinked 'Hollywood' in Morse code since opening night, when Samuel Morse's granddaughter Leila threw the switch; in 1992 it briefly spelled 'Capitol 50' for the label's anniversary. Inside, Capitol's basement echo chambers, designed by guitarist Les Paul, gave records by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and the Beach Boys their signature warmth. The tower is a registered Los Angeles landmark and a Hollywood skyline icon.

3.4 mi away

History of Silver Lake

Philippe The Original RoadyGoat

Philippe Mathieu accidentally invented the French dip sandwich in 1908 when he dropped a roll into a pan of beef drippings. The customer loved it, came back with friends, and a legend was born. The sawdust floors, nine-cent coffee, and communal tables in downtown LA haven't changed in over a century. Cole's across town disputes the French dip origin — but Philippe's doesn't care.

Musso & Frank Grill RoadyGoat

Musso & Frank has been Hollywood's power dining room since 1919. Faulkner and Fitzgerald wrote here. Raymond Chandler set scenes here. Bukowski had a regular booth. The red-jacketed bartenders make martinis stirred not shaken in a proper mixing glass. It survived Prohibition, the studio system's collapse, and every Hollywood reinvention. The flannel cakes are a century-old tradition.

4.1 mi away

Where It Opens RoadyGoat

413 South McCadden Place in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles is the house where The Ring (2002) opens -- the home of the film's first on-screen victim, Katie Embry. The cursed tape and seven-day death are fictional; it is a private residence, so it should only ever be viewed from the public street.

4.1 mi away

Hollywood Sign

1923

Originally an ad for a real estate development, became the global symbol of the entertainment industry.

4.4 mi away

Griffith Observatory

1935

Free public observatory born from a mining magnate's transformative experience looking through a telescope.

Watts Towers

1921

Italian immigrant spent 33 years building monumental folk art towers from found materials.

10.3 mi away

Watts Towers: One Man's Thirty-Three-Year Obsession

1921

Italian immigrant Simon Rodia single-handedly built seventeen interconnected sculptural towers over thirty-three years in his backyard in Watts, creating one of the greatest works of outsider art ever produced.

10.4 mi away

Things to Do in Silver Lake

food 2.7 mi away
Philippe The Original

Inventor of the French dip sandwich in 1908 in downtown LA. Sawdust floors. Nine-cent coffee. Some things shouldn't change.
food 4.1 mi away
Musso & Frank Grill

Hollywood's oldest restaurant since 1919. Faulkner and Fitzgerald drank here. Bukowski had a booth. The martinis are perfect.
historical 2.8 mi away
Griffith Observatory

Free admission observatory with the best view of LA and the Hollywood sign. Rebel Without a Cause filmed here.
food 4.2 mi away
Pink's Hot Dogs

Hollywood's legendary hot dog stand since 1939. Started as a cart. The celebrity wall of fame is absurd. Open til 2am.
quirky 4.4 mi away
Hollywood Sign

45-foot-tall white letters on Mount Lee. Originally said Hollywoodland and was an ad for real estate.
food 4.6 mi away
Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles

LA's iconic soul food mashup since 1975. Obama ordered the country boy. Snoop Dogg is a regular. Chicken and waffles shouldn't work but it does.
food 10.0 mi away
Randy's Donuts

The giant donut on the roof in Inglewood has been an LA landmark since 1953. Iron Man stopped here. So should you.
food 20.6 mi away
In-N-Out Burger (Original)

California's cult burger chain. Animal style fries are the secret menu essential.

Everything Near Silver Lake

259 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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