Shopping in Los Angeles
If you're shopping in Los Angeles, we bet you're looking for that perfect, one-of-a kind item that didn't arrive in a giant container packed with a hundred thousand identical, cheaply made knockoffs. At L.A. Electric Travel, we've hand picked stores that offer distinctive products, astounding variety and reasonable prices. Mostly independently owned, our Metro accessible shopping destinations are staffed by people who know their stuff and are passionately, even geekily obsessed with the products they sell.
From occult gifts to Mexican folk art, from handmade musical instruments to movie memorabilia, when you shop Metro, you'll never need to ask "will you please validate my parking."
Find Metro Rail Accessible One of a Kind Stores:
Red Line
It's a unique toy store, a book store, a treasure trove of quirky Americana and an emporium of ethnic kitsch.
Legend has it that a young music fan entered Amoeba and didn't emerge for three years...
One of the last independent bookstores in LA, Skylight has survived competition from mega chain stores and Amazon by specializing in poetry, political literature, sub-culture magazines and hard to find novels.
In business for over 70 years, Larry Edmunds Book Shop is Mecca for movie buffs in Hollywood.
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Gold Line
Canterbury Records
Candelas Guitars
If you can't make it to "Big Tokyo" to load up on Japanese pop trinkets, take the Gold Line to Little Tokyo. Pop Killer sells the weird, the wacky, the indescribable and...
Used bookstore, lending library and unofficial east side community center, Libros Schmibros is the creation of David Kipen, a prominent promoter of national projects to energize America's
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Purple Line
A Cuban family-owned smoker's outpost in non-smoking LA. They hand roll their signature Leon cigars on the premises, surrounded by walls yellowed from decades of fragrant Cuban and Dominican smoke. |