We planned a trip on the MetroLink with Jack Thomas to Hollywood. Jack lives in the park and leads tours all over LA for free. From Soledad Canyon TT we met Jack at the Vincent Grade Station at 9:00 AM. This was on a Saturday and there were 5 of us so we got a discount on the tickets. $7.50 a person. These tickets are round trip and when you reach LA they can be used on the subways and the buses. Bill and Karen found a dog sitter for Lucy, George & April. Terri was visiting a new grandbaby for the week.
Jack our leader. This is one of the new cars and all the seats are facing backwards. This car is in the front of the train and for safety reasons all passengers are facing backwards until the return trip when the train runs backwards.
Bill on the train as you can see Saturdays are not busy days.
Karen and I were comfortable riding backwards. We got to see the Lions and some Tigers at Tippie Headron’s lion retirement compound and a film company shooting a scene with soldiers with guns. Interesting trip to LA Union Station.
Union Station, downtown LA.
From here we took a bus to Clifton’s Cafeteria for lunch. It is on the National Register as a historic building. Walking to Clifton’s I commented to Karen I felt like I was in Mexico. Shops selling junk to jewelry and the 2 magazine stands with just Spanish magazines and papers. Nothing in English. A number of shops selling and renting wedding gowns and gowns for 15 year old Latin girls. 
15 year old Latino girls have a coming out party.
Next stop was Clifton’s. 
They used to have 3 cafeterias in the LA area and each with a different motif. This is the only one left. The theme is Yosemite.
Food was good and filling and we were ready to continue to Hollywood which meant we needed to walk toward the financial area to catch the subway to Hollywood.
On our way up to Hollywood from the subway.
Stay tuned for Hollywood.
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