Esotouric launches Black Dahlia and Bunker Hill downtown LA walking tours
WHAT: Estouric Walking Tours
WHEN/WHERE:
The Dahlia' Downtown tour, 6/30 11am (Olive Street entrance, Biltmore Hotel, 5th and Olive, Los Angeles 90013);
Bunker Hill tour, 8/511am (Wells Fargo Tower, 333 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071)
COST: $10/person, purchased online from www.esotouric.com or as the tour departs
LENGTH: About 90 minutes per tour
After many requests from passengers looking for something quicker and more affordable than a five-hour bus tour, Esotouric, the eclectic bus adventure company whose offbeat tours expose L.A.'s secret history, has just added two downtown walking tours to its repertoire.
The Dahlia's Downtown, hosted by Kim Cooper and departing from the Biltmore Hotel, takes strollers on a time travel trip to 1947, when the mysterious Black Dahlia murder obsessed the city and police were piecing together victim Elizabeth Short's peculiar lifestyle in the vain hope it would lead to her killer. The tour debunks the myth of Short last being seen at the Biltmore as we walk to the former site of the Crown Grill, the bar she visited the night she vanished which provided several early suspects to the case.
As we walk to the Figueroa Hotel, where Short had an interesting liason, we'll discuss Short's life in Massachusetts, Florida and California, the myths she wove around herself and the ones that bloomed after her brutal murder, the varied theories of who-done-it and why and introduce the audience to a little known but very likely suspect with unexpected ties to the victim.
This walking tour is adapted from Esotouric's most popular bus tour, The Real Black Dahlia. It debuts on June 30 at 11am, meeting at the Biltmore Hotel.
The Bunker Hill tour, hosted by Richard Schave and departing from Wells Fargo Tower, presents a history of this lost neighborhood, from its glory days as the city's social center circa 1880 to its long decline as the wealthy moved west and grand houses became hotels and low income apartments. We'll discuss the work of John Fante, whose great "Ask the Dust" and "Dreams of Bunker Hill" paint moody portraits of the people of the lost community, the poets and the whores, the bums and the boozers. As we stroll atop the peak of downtown LA we'll remember the people and the buildings that are gone and discuss some of the most notorious crimes from the neighborhood.
This tour is adapted from Esotouric's new literary tour, John Fante's Dreams of Bunker Hill. It debuts on August 5 at 11am, meeting at Wells Fargo Tower.
Upcoming Esotouric tour and event schedule:
Sat June 16 John Fante's Dreams of Bunker Hill
Sat June 23 Weird West Adams tour for Art Deco Soc./West Adams Heritage Assoc.
Sat June 30 The Dahlia's Downtown Walking Tour
Sat July 21 Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place
Sun July 22 John Fante's Dreams of Bunker Hill
Sun Aug 5 Bunker Hill Walking Tour
Thur Aug 16 Charles Bukowski's Birthday Party event
Sat Aug 18 Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sat Sept 15 James M. Cain's Los Angeles
Sun Oct 7 Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
For more info on Esotouric, please visit http://www.esotouric.com
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