Ah in the good ol’ days you could be a lady of the night on Hollywood Blvd, and offer your services to a wealthy man (like Richard Gere for example) who will put you up at the Willshire and take you shopping on Rodeo Drive baby! Hollywood has undergone a change geared more towards inviting families, and less ladies of the night.  
    I must tell you that I felt like a pretty woman at several points earlier this week as I strolled along the Walk of Fame in Hollywood Blvd, and my earlier outing at the Willshire in Beverly Hills.   
    I was accompanied by two other ladies, and our walk began in Beverly Hills, on Rodeo Drive at Cartier, passing the original Cheesecake Factory, taking us through a charming, little village-like area where you can find Tiffany’s and other stores.  We, however, stopped at Tiffany’s, where the three of us, tried to fight the urge to eat croissants with dark glasses on, and extending our necks a la Audrey.   Ah, the blue boxes…I just love those boxes.  I think I scared off any ideas my beloved had of ever giving me one of those boxes because he thought I wanted a pricey ring in that box…Honey, if you are reading this, it’s the box I want…you can put a life saver in there and we can live with my mother (just kidding Mom!)…box.  blue box.  Enough of Tiffany’s or my weird box fetish.  
    So we exited onto Rodeo Drive, facing the Willshire Hotel, and we all had to pee.  Girls, I said, if we’re going to pee, we should do so in 5-star facilities.  We crossed the street, the doorman held the door for us, we went to the marble and granite bathroom, used the restroom and then we discovered the hand soap, and the body lotion…well, it was hand lotion, but we applied it to our bodies.  The Willshire is the place to shed excessive liquid if you are in the area.  I kept hoping Hector Elizondo would take me under his wing or that I would be offered a red box (love the boxes!), but no such luck so we kept moving, traveled back towards our car, passed La Perla, where we dreamt of panties, Harry Winston’s shiny love, and then on a side street we discovered paper monkeys at the Paper Source…ooooo Wonder Woman lunch boxes, swear cards, unusual journals…we were in stationary heaven (you know that feeling you would get at Office Depot during back to school days)!
    Sadly, we had to leave because next on our journey was…the La Brea tar pits and Tim Burton’s exhibit at the LACMA.
    I give the Willshire 5 yummy-smelling hydration points, Tiffany gets 5 life saver-filled blue boxes, and the Paper Source gets 5 paper monkeys!
    

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