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Esotouric, Los Angeles Fascinating Tours

May 30, 2013 by DaveLeave a Comment

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 WHEN: Saturday June 8, 12pm-4pm (tour repeats September 28) WHERE: Tour departs from Fair Oaks and Arlington Street, South Pasadena COST: $58/person RELATED TOURS: The crime bus rolls every Saturday in June, including East Side Babylon (6/1), Hotel Horrors & Main … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: Bridges, Bus Travel, California, Esotouric, Film, History, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Road Trip, Travel Blogging, Walking tour

Esotouric, West Adams Neighborhood, Los Angeles

December 11, 2011 by Dave2 Comments

Esotouric offers a variety of tours in Los Angeles; their name is a twist of "esoteric" and all their tours have an element of this. We joined the founders, the husband wife team of Kim and Richard for their niche historic West Adam's "crime" tour which covers a part of Los Angeles most tourists will never visit - although this neighborhood is fairly close to Exposition Park and relatively close to downtown. As with other neighborhoods in Los … [Read more...]

Filed Under: North America · Tagged: America, Bus Travel, Esotouric, Freeways, History, Los Angeles, Mediterranean, Rocky Mountains, South America

Esotouric Black Dahlia Weekend

March 17, 2011 by DaveLeave a Comment

Go deep inside L.A. crime lore with LAVA's Phil Spector / Black Dahlia weekend Event #1: Saturday, April 16, 12-4pm - Esotouric presents "The Real Black Dahlia" crime bus tour (departs from The Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071, $58/person) INFO/RESERVATIONS: Event #2: Sunday, April 17, 2-6pm - Professor Donald Johnson, in association with LAVA and Esotouric, presents a fundraiser lecture/tour … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: Art, Bus Travel, California, Celebrity, Culture, Esotouric, Gun, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Travel Blogging

LA. Bus Tour Traces Film Noir’s Path from James M. Cain’s Fiction to the Screen

September 20, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

WHAT: Esotouric's The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California Nightmare tour WHEN: Saturday October 9, 12pm-4pm WHERE: Departing from Philippe The Original, 1001 Alameda, downtown LA COST: $58/person (15% off for KCRW or KPCC members) INFO: https://esotouric.com, 323-223-2767 LOS ANGELES- Southern California, 1931: Musing over fresh urban sprawl atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can't eat the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: Art, Bus Travel, California, Drinking, Esotouric, Film, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Pasadena

LAVA’s August wild weekend celebrates culture and history in Downtown Los Angeles

August 5, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

WHAT: On Saturday August 28 and Sunday August 29, members of LAVA (The Los Angeles Visionaries Association) present four eclectic downtown cultural happenings, including Esotouric's The Lowdown on Downtown bus tour, a 25th Anniversary Night Stalker Murders tour from Eastside Desmadre, LAVA's monthly Sunday Salon at Clifton's Cafeteria featuring a talk from David Kipen about his new bookshop/ lending library Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: Art, Bus Travel, Culture, Esotouric, Fashion, Festival, Film, Food and Wine, History, Jordan, Journey, London, Los Angeles, Museum, Music, Photography, Technology, Walking tour, Wildlife, Wine Tasting

Back from LA

June 11, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

Just got back from the City of Angels. Had the Natural History museum exhibits all to myself - 1st Friday of every month open late, live bands setup shop and food - and some of the southlands pre-eminent professors and researchers give lectures, setup right among the exhibits. Def a highlight. Amazing gold and gem collection. World's largest known Ammonites. I felt like Ben Stiller in the Night of the Museum...well without the displays coming to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: North America · Tagged: America, Art, Esotouric, Food and Wine, Hiking, History, Los Angeles, Museum, Natural History, New York City, Restaurants, Shopping Mall

Esotouric’s July Literary Tours Explore Raymond Chandler’s and Charles Bukowski’s Personal Cities

June 9, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

WHAT: Esotouric's July literary bus tours in Los Angeles: Raymond Chandler (Sat 7/10, 12-4pm) departing from the LA Athletic Club (431 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014), and Charles Bukowski (Sat 7/24, 12-4pm) departing from Philippe The Original (1001 N. Alameda, Los Angeles, CA 90012) COST: Regular price $58/person per tour. Special offer: ride both July literary tours for $86 (save $30). Contact Esotouric to reserve. MORE INFO: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: Art, Bridges, Bus Travel, Coffee, Culture, Drinking, Esotouric, Film, Hollywood, Ice Cream, Los Angeles, Pasadena

Newly discovered color photos of old Bunker Hill bring lost Los Angeles back to life

June 4, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

WHAT: The first publication in fifty years of lost 3-D color photographs of the historic Bunker Hill neighborhood taken by vaudeville star George Mann in the 1950s and 1960s WHERE: www.onbunkerhill.org/georgemann LOS ANGELES- The lost Victorian neighborhood of Bunker Hill was demolished fifty years ago in a misguided urban renewal project, but a newly discovered set of incredible color photographs taken shortly before the bulldozers came … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Press Releases · Tagged: America, Architecture, Art, Bus Travel, Castle, Esotouric, Europe, Film, History, Internet, Los Angeles, Music, Naked, Restaurants, Travel Blogging

Off to the City of Angels…again :)

June 2, 2010 by DaveLeave a Comment

I'm off to LA in a day or two for a week of fun and researching more content for my quickly growing Los Angeles article and maybe sell some of my Freeways of Los Angeles books! There is NEVER a shortage of anything to do in the LA area and this trip will be no exception. The Annenberg Space for Photography has a large exhibit on Water until mid June - so will squeeze this in. Then going to hang out near downtown with one of the Esotouric … [Read more...]

Filed Under: North America · Tagged: Bus Travel, Esotouric, Freeways, History, Los Angeles, Museum, Natural History, Photography, Studio Tours

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