In search of the Hill Street Sand Man and other grains of lost Los Angeles lore

Gentle reader,

Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering walking tours, with the next excursion this Saturday, October 22. It will be a deep dive into the architecture and oddities of Alvarado Terrace & the South Bonnie Brae Tract.

For our latest post that’s hidden from the rest of the internet, we want to share the clues that revealed the existence of a forgotten Downtown Los Angeles tourist attraction, a novelty of the kind you might have found on a carnival midway or in Coney Island.

Like so many good stories, it all starts with a strange little book…