Save with $25 tickets on Saturday's Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice history, architecture and true crime tour
Gentle reader,
Maybe we’re a little spoiled after leading sixty eager urban explorers around Los Feliz Boulevard and the raunchy motel district in the heart of Thai Town on last weekend’s debut of the Hollywood Noir tour (next date: February 7).
But turn out is quite a bit lighter on Saturday’s Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice walk, and this makes us blue, as we so enjoy sharing the stories and landmarks of this fascinating and complicated side of Downtown Los Angeles.
So tickets are now half price, just $25, and we hope this will be the poke in the arm some of our newsletter subscribers need to finally sign up their first Esotouric walking tour, or for past guests to introduce a friend to what we do.
We’ll begin at Grand Central Market, which means you can include brunch or late lunch in your Saturday plans, a ride on Angels Flight to see the Bunker Hill holiday decorations, or a peep inside the lyrical Bradbury Building lobby.
We’re joined on this tour by Joan Renner of Deranged L.A. Crimes, and she’ll be spilling some of the city’s darkest secrets along the way.
The lost world of all-night kicks, low-life amusements, tattoo parlors, freak shows, mummified human bodies both sacred and profane and weird crimes that clotted Main Street’s tenderloin for much of the 20th Century is our obsession, and we can’t wait to share it with you, so join us, do!
Yours for Los Angeles,
Kim & Richard
Esotouric
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• For the holiday season, we’ve got a special offer that’s just the thing for the L.A. lover who already has everything: purchase four walking tour gift certificates, and get an additional ticket for free, which you can gift or use yourself.
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UPCOMING WALKING TOURS
• Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice $25 half price tickets available (12/6) • Westlake Park Time Travel Trip (12/13) • Know Your Downtown L.A. (Saturday, 12/20) • Miracle Mile Marvels & Madness (Sunday, 12/21) • Human Sacrifice: The Black Dahlia, Elisa Lam, Heidi Planck & Skid Row Slasher Cases (12/27) • Evergreen Cemetery, 1877 (1/24) • Alvarado Terrace & South Bonnie Brae Tract (1/31) • Hollywood Noir (2/7) • Angelino Heights & Carroll Avenue (2/14) • Raymond Chandler’s Noir Downtown L.A. (2/21) • Weird West Adams & Elmer McCurdy Museum Visit (2/28) • Film Noir / Real Noir (3/7) • Bunker Hill, Dead and Alive (3/21) • Christine Sterling & Leo Politi: Angels of Los Angeles (4/4) • John Fante’s Downtown L.A. (4/11) • Early Hollywood’s Silent Comedy Legends (4/18) • Downtown Los Angeles is for Book Lovers (4/25)