'Hoods 17, 18, 19: Maplewood St. Andrews, St. Andrews Square and Western Wiltern

OK, I have to admit I'm not always entirely confident in the map I'm using as a resource for Los Angeles neighborhoods, and this is one of those times.  I found it online, and it identifies 137 'hoods in LA—but sometimes it makes no sense to me, like how a place as gigantic as "Hollywood" is one neighborhood, whereas these three tiny little areas get the same depiction.

Still, the goal behind this quest was to discover more of LA and to better learn my way around—and since there's always been disagreement about exactly what constitutes specific neighborhoods, this map seems as good as any.

Anyway, on the way back from Larchmont Village in Central LA, my friend Jenifer and I took a route that took us through three tiiiiiiiiiiny neighborhoods (like a city block each).  They're located along Wilton Avenue between Melrose and Beverly (Maplewood St. Andrews), Beverly and 3rd (St. Andrews Square) and 3rd and 6th (Western Wiltern).

It's funny how adjacent to the west in Larchmont we passed a house like this:

And in these 'hoods, the houses were more like this:

Although we did hit a couple yard sales, I breezed through these neighborhoods.  Seriously, though, short of knocking on a door and asking if I could use a bathroom, there wasn't much else to do.

BTW, as we made our way home along Wilshire Blvd. and back into the Miracle Mile district (which I've already visited), as a bonus we stopped at Whimsic Alley, a Harry Potter store that I've been meaning to go to for more than a year.  From there, we took a side trip to the backside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see and walk beneath an art piece of a giant 340-ton suspended rock called Levitated Mass.