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Originally Posted by BrandonJXN
I've always loved Century City. I had a job interview at Gateway West (which has since been destroyed for Westfield's expansion) and spent many a day eating Pinkberry and people watching.
Architecture wise, CC has a handsome collection of buildings that are great representations of the era they were built in. I hope the retro-futuristic vibe of Century City never leaves (earthquake as I type this).
I also will always be a fan of how the Century Plaza Towers and 2000 Ave of the Stars (the building with the hole in it) mirror The Century Plaza and the Century Residences. I don't think I've ever seen something such as that anywhere.
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I also have a soft spot for Century City. As a kid in the 1970s and early 1980s, I remember when the Century City Mall was more of an ordinary mall---it used to have a Clifton's Cafeteria (which we never ate at). It was also where the first Crate&Barrel I ever went to was as a kid. In the 1990s, when we were both already in our 20s, I would have lunch there sometimes with my sister, who happened to work at Gateway West; we'd meet on her lunch breaks. In the late 1980s-early to mid-1990s, I would see movies there, back at the now-demolished AMC Century 14, which showed indie/arthouse/foreign films. I even saw Dustin Hoffman coming out of the theater one time.
I'm old enough to remember the now demolished ABC Entertainment Center, which was in front of the Twin Towers on Ave. of the Stars.
It had its own movie complex, a Cineplex Odeon... My friend and I saw "The Last Temptation of Christ" there. I remember joking with him, saying "I hope Christian protestors don't throw fake blood on us" because it was in the news that that was happening in Orange County, haha! There was also the Shubert Theatre in that complex, which would show all the latest Broadway Musicals---I saw "Les Mis" there back in 1989, and I saw "Mamma Mia" there back in 2001.
And when that complex existed, it was connected to the Century Plaza Hotel by a wide walkway that went under the street. Now that connection is broken. I do like 2000 Ave. of the Stars, though.
Edit: I just learned that that tunnel under Ave. of the Stars has reopened. I guess the last time I was in Century City, I didn't investigate.