Announcing Spring Tours Celebrating L.A. Writers Tom Waits, John Fante & Charles Bukowski

L.A. Stories in Tours from April 18 - May 2

John Fante's Bunker Hill • Tom Waits' Gritty City Bukowski's Downtown & East Hollywood Haunts

DID YOU KNOW...? Esotouric tours are now posted into May, and include some rarities not often on our calendar.

If you dig 1970s music and film history and exploring the lost low rent districts of Downtown, Echo Park, Hollywood and West Hollywood, you'll want to snag a seat on author David Smay's once-a-year tour of Tom Waits' Los Angeles on May 2. From pastry tossing punks at Canter's to true love blooming in a coked out cinema wonderland to the Nickel in old Skid Row, it's a time travel trip we'd love to share with you.

On April 18, it's the Downtown literary history tour John Fante: Dreams from Bunker Hill. Fante hailed from Colorado, but he crafted the most exquisite Los Angeles stories from his hardscrabble youth in the shadow of Central Library, and inspired a young Charles Bukowski to pick up a pen, in addition to tangling with Hitler in a most peculiar way. There will be some very special guests and seldom seen sites featured on this tour, so join us, do!

And the sister tour, Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles, is happening the following Saturday, April 25. We'll soak up the atmosphere of the Downtown landmarks that shaped this prickly Angeleno, then cut a path across East Hollywood and Westlake, to see the time capsule places where hard drinking and romantic troubles were boiled down to make a new kind of literature. From bedraggled postal worker to international fame, it's a thrilling tale you won't want to miss.