The Lowdown on Downtown tour
mappingaddress: First things first: this is not a tour about beautiful buildings, although they’ll be all around us. Nor is it a tour about brilliant architects, although we’ll gaze upon their works...
View ArticleRaymond Chandler’s Los Angeles tour
mappingaddress: Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer’s bow.Join Esotouric down...
View ArticleHotel Horrors & Main Street Vice tour
mappingaddress: From the founding of the city through the 1940s, downtown was the true center of Los Angeles, a lively, densely populated, exciting and sometimes dangerous place. After many quiet...
View ArticleThe Birth of Noir: James M. Cain’s Southern California Nightmare tour
mappingaddress: Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can’t eat the sunshine, recent emigré James M. Cain...
View ArticleTouring the Watts '65 Riots, a personally narrated bus tour
mappingaddress: The Mayme Clayton Library & Museum, in association with the Watts Towers Arts Center, will present a bus tour of Watts, stopping at sites meaningful to the Watts Riots of 1965. Led...
View ArticleUnion Rescue Mission Walking Tour: 124 years on Skid Row
mappingaddress: Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pmPlease use the form on the left to register for this event. No "Plus Ones."ABOUT THIS EVENT:Please join Nathan Marsak of 1947project, Richard...
View ArticleWeird West Adams crime bus tour
mappingaddress: On this guided tour through the Beverly Hills of the early 20th Century, Crime Bus passengers thrill as Jazz Age bootleggers run amok, marvel at the Krazy Kafitz family’s litany of...
View ArticleWild Wild Westside crime bus tour
mappingaddress: For the first time, the true crime archeologists of Esotouric have set their sights on points west of Robertson, and the results are truly mind-boggling.Originally offered in...
View ArticleHollywood! crime bus tour
mappingaddress: Climb aboard the Esotouric crime bus and discover the unwritten history of the sleepy suburb that birthed the American dream factory. From literary lions to criminal masterminds, terror...
View ArticleHaunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles tour
mappingaddress: “[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who’s come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.” – Tanja M. Laden,...
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