Griffith Jenkins Griffith desired to make science more accessible to the public and he gifted $100,000 to the city of Los Angeles to build an Observatory on top of Mount Hollywood.

Los Angeles has now managed, despite odds that once looked impossibly long, to refurbish its four major public landmarks from the first half of the 20th century, with the observatory joining City ...

The Mount Hollywood summit, located above the Griffith Observatory, was re-named Tom LaBonge Summit in remembrance of the long-time city councilman who died Jan. 7 age 67. At 1,625 feet, the… ...

See stars and vistas: Griffith Observatory and Griffith Park is ranked #1 out of 33 things to do in Los Angeles. See pictures and our review of See stars and vistas: Griffith Observatory and ...

Griffith is best remembered for his generousdonation to the city of Los Angeles that created Griffith Park and eventually the observatory that bears his name, as wellas the Greek Theater. You may like ...

Griffith Observatory. Museums | Science and technology; ... as do the views of the city below. ... 2800 E Observatory Rd Los Angeles 90027. Price: Free admission.

All eyes were on the sky for the Great American Eclipse on Monday, and large crowds in Southern California gathered at the Griffith Observatory for the event. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange County ...

Roughly seven million people have looked through the main telescope at Griffith Observatory. By Soumya Karlamangla LOS ANGELES — Atop a hill that offers views of glittering freeways and golden ...

Lecturers who narrate the planetarium shows at Griffith Observatory and who took steps late last year to form a union, this week have been granted union recognition by the City of Los Angeles ...

No traffic at Griffith Observatory in 1937, two years after it opened to the public. Los Angeles Public Library Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism.

The storytellers who introduce live audiences to the heavens at Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium theater have unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement ...