Home of Hollywood and Beverley Hills. Stroll along the famous Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Strip. In Burbank are many modern movie and television studios. Along the Pacific shore, Malibu, Santa Monica, Marina de Trey and Palos Verde are high class residential beach communities.
Long Beach is a thriving seaport with a vibrant commercial district and oil wells.
San Francisco Bay is the home of the Alcatraz prison, now a major tourist attraction. It is a mix of old money Yankee conservatism and the drive and energy of the tens of thousands of students who attend the 60 universities and colleges. Some of the buildings in the old town date back to the 17 th century. The famous Boston Tea Party was a protest about a British imposed tax and the War of Independence started after this. Home of the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the United Nations Headquarters, Wall Street and Broadway with some of the best shows and theatre in the world.