Esotouric's Pasadena Confidential Crime Bus Tour Explores the Crown City's Dark Side
WHAT: Esotouric presents the Pasadena Confidential crime bus tour with Crimebo the Clown and Cravens Mansion tour
WHEN: Saturday July 26, 11am-3pm
COST: $58, which includes snacks and beverages (or get a four-tour season pass for $207 and save $25)
WHERE: Departs from Fair Oaks and Arlington Street, South Pasadena.
On July 26, Esotouric, the eclectic bus adventure company whose offbeat tours expose L.A.'s secret history, offers its popular, occasional Pasadena Confidential tour, a true crime bus adventure delving deep into the weird and horrible past of one of L.A.'s most exclusive suburbs.
Making a special appearance on this tour: Crimebo the Crime Clown! And for the first time, the tour includes a guided tour of one of the few remaining stately homes along old Millionaire's Row, The Cravans Mansion, probably the most glamorous Red Cross headquarters in the world, with its marble halls, gold leaf wall paintings and sumptuously tiled bathrooms.
Crime fiends will enjoy a four-hour guided luxury bus tour to the darkest recesses of Pasadena history, with a vintage slide show to set the scene. From celebrated cases like the RFK assassination, "Eraserhead" star Jack Nance's strange end, black magician/rocket scientist Jack Parsons' death-by-misadventure and the 1926 Rose Parade grand stand collapse, to fascinating obscurities, the tour's multitude of murders, arsons, kidnappings, robberies, suicides, auto wrecks and oddball happenings provide an alternate history of Pasadena that's as fascinating as it is creepy.
Crime Bus passengers will tour the old Millionaire's Row on Orange Grove, boggle at the shocking Sphinx Murder on the steps of the downtown Masonic Hall, thrill to the misadventures of one very poorly-behaved (but beautifully dressed!) chimpanzee and discover why people named Judd should think twice before moving to Pasadena. They'll also enjoy the offbeat charms of Crimebo the Crime Clown as he leads passengers out onto Suicide Bridge for a personal look down into the gorge that tempted dozens of tormented souls to their demise.
Riders on this eye-opening, funny and informative tour will forever see Pasadena in a new light. It is highly recommended for natives and newcomers alike, crime and history buffs and anyone who likes to seek out the unexpected.
Upcoming Esotouric bus tour schedule (new tours starred):
*Sat July 12 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The New Chinatowns
Sat July 26 - Pasadena Confidential with Crimebo the Clown
Sat Aug.2 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66
Sat Aug 9- Vroman's Bookstore Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowki's LA
Sat Aug 16 - The Real Black Dahlia
Sat Aug 23 Skylight Books - John Fante's Dreams from Bunker Hill
*Sat Aug 30 - Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' LA
Sun Sept 7 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: South LA
Sat Sept 13 - Blood & Dumplings
Sat Sept 20 Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Many Downtowns
Sat Oct 4 Bodhi Tree Visionary Hollywood
Sat Oct 11- Vroman's Bookstore - Raymond Chandler's LA
Sat Oct 18- Raymond Chandler's Bay City
Sat Oct 25 Halloween Horrors with Crimebo the Clown
For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com
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