Rodeo Drive

The Rodeo Drive ( stress on the second syllable of Ro'deo ) is subdivided into a northern ( N. Rodeo Drive) and southern ( S. Rodeo Drive ) section of Wilshire Boulevard and shared street in Beverly Hills, a city in Los Angeles County of the U.S. state of California. The Rodeo Drive runs with a total length of about 2 miles (3.2 km) between Sunset Boulevard to the north and the S. Beverwil Drive near the W. Pico Boulevard to the south. The street is known in any one Sub - sections especially for the dense settlement of transactions of international luxury brands with high-priced goods.

His name has the Rodeo Drive of the Spanish translation of the Indian term for ' accumulation of water ', El Rodeo de las Aguas, since the days of the Spanish colonial rule were fertile marshes on the site. Until the early 1950s progressed as the urban development of Beverly Hills, the road was no more than a bridle path. Only in the 1970s, including the only three blocks and 500 -meter-long section of N. Rodeo Drive between Wilshire Boulevard and Santa developed Monica Boulevard to an exclusive shopping and entertainment, not only by the wealthy and prominent residents of the area is used, but is also an attraction for tourists.

Today is the N. Rodeo Drive a divided by a green strip and partly palm-lined four-lane road. Land prices and rents are now among the highest in the world, that also benefit the surrounding streets like Beverly Drive and the Cañon Drive in the so-called Golden Triangle. This ' Golden Triangle ' with its many shops and restaurants is of the intersecting streets of Wilshire Boulevard limited ( to the south), the Santa Monica Boulevard ( in the northwest) and the Cañon Drive (to the east ). The S. Rodeo Drive is a two-lane office and residential street.

International fashion brands such as Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Ermenegildo Zegna, Prada, Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo, Brioni, Max Mara, Bottega Veneta, Roberto Cavalli, Hugo Boss, Bally, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Hermes, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Tom Ford or Brooks Brothers, Guess Jeans, Bijan Beverly Hills, Juicy Couture and other leading stores on Rodeo Drive. Represented are Rolex, Mont Blanc, Omega, Bang & Olufsen or jewelers such as Bulgari (One Rodeo Drive), Cartier, De Beers, Van Cleef & Arpels and Harry Winston and a few restaurants. Also located on the mid-height of the Boulevard cross street Brighton Way numerous exclusive boutiques such as Wolford, Anne Fontaine, Christofle, Emporio Armani, Brunello Cuccinelli, Jaeger- LeCoultre, IWC or Oilily have alone already settled for lack of space.

The street is also home to the most expensive malls in the world. Among them are the one The Rodeo Collection ( 421 N. Rodeo Drive) with shops on five retail floors above and below the earth as Eres, Herve Leger, La Perla, Stuart Weitzman or facilities for plastic surgery. On the other hand can be found in the built until the early 1990s, Two Rodeo shops of Versace, Stefano Ricci ( Gianfranco Ferré previously ), Lanvin, Porsche Design, Jimmy Choo, Vilebrequin, Breguet, Georg Jensen, Lalique, Tiffany & Co., the mobile phone maker Vertu and other as well as three restaurants. Two Rodeo Drive raised as a short stretch of road, called Via Rodeo, parallel to the beginning of Rodeo Drive between Dayton Way and Wilshire Boulevard with fountains, a plaza, a ' Spanish Steps ' and balconies the impression of a European cobblestone shopping street. Next to it, on Wilshire Boulevard, there is the famous Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

At the intersection of N. Rodeo Drive and Dayton Way on the green stripe in the middle of the street, a sculpture made ​​of silver aluminum in the form of a female torso by artist Robert Graham was erected in 2003.

The northern part of N. Rodeo Drive between Santa Monica Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard is an elegant residential street.

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  • The nearby Hollywood studios use the road occasionally for filming. The director Brian De Palma turned 1984 The Rodeo Collection scenes of the film Body Double (Eng. Body Double ), and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman was walking to see on Rodeo Drive, where in her role as a prostitute it in the Boutique Boulmiche (since 2010 a Badgley Mischka business) was dismissed at the end of the Boulevard at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard.
  • Immediately at the north end of Rodeo Drive, the intersection onto Sunset Boulevard, is the traditional The Beverly Hills Hotel (1912 opening ) that the Sultan of Brunei is one since 1987.
  • The dancer and actor Gene Kelly lived until his death in 1996 in the northern part of N. Rodeo Drive in number 725
  • Every year on American Father's Day ( third Sunday in June ) is on Rodeo Drive instead of a Concours d'Elegance, will be shown for what many classic cars to the public.

Gallery

Two Rodeo left, Beverly Wilshire Hotel in the background, Bulgari Boutique rear right, front right Louis Vuitton boutique

Street sign and popular photo motif of the Two Rodeo Drive Via Rodeo at the corner of Dayton Way and Rodeo Drive

Overlooking the cobblestone street of Via Rodeo Two Rodeo Drive

View from above at Two Rodeo Drive

Via Rodeo

The so-called ' Spanish Steps ' of the Two Rodeo Drive leads to the Wilshire Boulevard

Jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels

Jeweler DeBeers

Gianfranco Ferré former boutique, Two Rodeo Drive

Chanel Boutique

Hugo Boss Boutique

Ralph Lauren boutique

Streets of Rodeo Drive

Streets of Rodeo Drive

Streets of Rodeo Drive

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