Charles Bukowski tour with Esotouric Aug. 18

Discover the gritty side of L.A. literature with a Charles Bukowski Bus Tour
on his birthday weekend

WHAT: Esotouric's "Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's L.A." bus
tour

WHEN: Saturday, August 18, 12pm-4pm, departs from Philippe The Original,
1001 N Alameda, Downtown LA

COST: $58/person, includes coffee and donuts served at Bukowski's favorite
Pink Elephant Liquor Store.

MORE INFO: visit http://www.esotouric.com/buk or call 213-373-1947

This Saturday, Esotouric, L.A.'s most eclectic bus tour
company, celebrates what would have been Charles Bukowski's 92nd birthday
weekend with a literary bus and walking tour of the places that shaped him
as a writer and a man. Bukowski was born on August 16, 1920, and died in
1994.

The August 18 Charles Bukowski tour departs from Philippe The Original, the
legendary downtown sandwich shop where postal worker Bukowski often ate
while employed across the street at the brutal Terminal Annex sorting
facility. The tour is hosted by Richard Schave, one of the forces behind the
recent successful campaign to have Bukowski's one-time bungalow on De
Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood declared an historic-cultural monument.

HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN spans Bukowski's personal city, from the Skid Row
bars where he tuned his young writer's ear to the voices of old rummies to
the once-genteel Crown Hill apartments where he fought with his first love
Jane, favorite bars and liquor stores, "Barfly" locations to the downtown
library, where he discovered his "God," novelist John Fante (recently
honored with a Square in his name outside that library, a designation that
was initially proposed to City Council by tour host Richard Schave).

German born, Charles Bukowski spent most of his life in L.A., working for
the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the
underground press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical
"Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this
tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were
important to him and to his work. The tour includes a stop at Pink Elephant
Liquor in East Hollywood for complementary coffee and donuts, though many
riders also pick up a little something stronger for the road.

Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia,
Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler,
John Fante, James M. Cain). Here they'll turn their creative attentions to
Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn
tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of
sweetness and hope that runs through all his work.

Upcoming Esotouric bus tour and special event schedule
Sat August 18 - Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sat August 25 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Boyle Heights & The San
Gabriel Valley
Sat August 26 - Crime lab seminar: Cold A Long Time (info at
lavatransforms.org)
Sun September 2 - The Flâneur & The City: Broadway walking tour (info at
lavatransforms.org)
Sat September 8 - Weird West Adams
Sat September 15 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Lowdown on Downtown
Sat September 22 - Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice
Sat September 29 - The Real Black Dahlia
Sat October 6 - Pasadena Confidential (weekend pass available)
Sun October 7 - Eastside Babylon (weekend pass available)
Sat October 13 - The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California
Nightmare
Mon October 15- The LAVA Salon at Musso & Frank: Jim Tully: A Hobo in
Hollywood (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat October 27 - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles

For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com

Esotouric's Richard Schave and Kim Cooper are proud members of LAVA - The
Los Angeles Visionaries Association. http://www.lavatransforms.org