| |
Saturdays, Sundays. This year-round tour is hosted by Karie Bible, who highlights the various historic tales, scandals and mysteries of the Hollywood Forever cemetery. She has three tours: Cemetery of the Stars, Hidden Hollywood and Jewish Heritage. MORE >>
Daily. The first ever bike tour of Hollywood is an eco-friendly alternative to cruising the streets of Hollywood. The guided or self-guided tours, take visitors through the storied streets of Hollywood, highlighting how Madame Tussauds Hollywood figures have starred in the colorful history of Hollywood. Includes your personal tour guide, high end hybrid road bike, safety helmet, bottle of water and free VIP access to Madam Tussauds. MORE >>
Saturdays. Sat, May 4, 2013-Sat, Jun 29, 2013. One of the Conservancy’s signature series of year-round walking tours, Modern Skyline highlights the skyscrapers, plazas, and public art that define downtown’s Bunker Hill. Skilled volunteer docents share fascinating stories of the area’s transformation and show how the city center mixes the new with the old as it changes over time. MORE >>
Today. The first and only gay bus tour in the Hollywood area that reveals, in an entertaining way, the culturally rich, vital and often hidden, gay history in the city of Los Angeles and its relevance to the present-day gay experience. MORE >>
Today. Journey from the downtown of Chandler's pre-literary youth (but which always lingered at the fore of his imagination) to the Hollywood of his greatest success, with a stop along the way at Tai Kim's Scoops for unexpected gelato creations inspired by the author. They'll start the tour following in the young Chandler's footsteps, as he roamed the blocks near the downtown oil company office where he worked. See sites from "Lady in the Lake" and "The Little Sister," discover the real Philip Marlowe (Esotouric's exclusive scoop), and be steeped in noir LA. Meet at Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown L.A. MORE >>
Sat, May 25, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, May 25, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 1, 2013. Visit Boyle Heights, where the Night Stalker was captured and a mad dad ran amok. Roam the hallowed lawns of Evergreen, L.A.'s oldest cemetery and home of some memorable haunts and strange burials. Visit East L.A., where a deranged radio shop employee made mince meat of his boss and bride--and you can get your hair done in a building shaped like a giant tamale. Explore the ghastly streets of Commerce, where one small neighborhood's myriad crimes will shock and surprise. Visit Montebello, for scrumptious milk and cookies at Broguiere's Farm Fresh Dairy washed down with a horrifying case of child murder. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 1, 2013. Marilyn Monroe, the most legendary of all movie stars, was born, raised, lived and died right here in Los Angeles. Marilyn's Hollywood is the definitive tour of her life and will clear up a lot of the bogus stories circulating in the media. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 1, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 8, 2013. Climb aboard for rough trade, rocket science, monkeys run amok, suicide leaps, devil worship, madmen and assorted evils that will forever change the way you look at Pasadena. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 15, 2013. This is a self-driven tour through Los Angeles' West Side of the bohemian haunts of Santa Monica and Venice. Drive yourself or carpool, and set your own pace—perfect for a laid-back Saturday. Dwell Home Tours allow design seekers to immerse themselves in “Dwell-like” domestic spaces. These unique homes are specially selected by Dwell to reflect the rich diversity of livable, innovative modern architecture and design found throughout Los Angeles. A portion of the Home Tour ticket proceeds will go to our non-profit partner, Architecture for Humanity. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 15, 2013. This downtown double feature tour brings alive old ghosts and memories including legendary locales like where Night Stalker Richard Ramirez liked to stay, the hotel that saw a visit from the Skid Row Slasher and where two traveling chocolate salesmen laughed so hard they fell backwards out a window to their deaths. Included are some lighthearted stories to help the blood and gore go down. The Main Street Vice portion is a social history tour celebrating the ribald, racy, raunchy old promenade where the better people simply did not travel - revisiting the scenes of some more unforgettable debaucheries and sharing stories of crime, smut, passion and commerce. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 22, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Saturdays. Sat, Jun 22, 2013-Sat, Sep 28, 2013. You'll see the illuminated lights of Hollywood Blvd., the historic theaters of downtown and the glowing pagodas of Chinatown. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 22, 2013. Take the crime tour through the Beverly Hills of the early 20th Century, a mysterious neighborhood of decaying manors, dark secrets and souls that rest unpeacefully in their pretty graves. From the Krazy Kafitz family who simply could not behave, to the woe-begotten Marvin Gayes Junior and Senior, jazz age bootleggers, poison-gobbling kiddies, fiends and freaks, it's a tour packed with oddities and the unexpected. And the architecture too is to die for, from courtly Alvarado Terrace to the lovely lawns of Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, where some of the most fascinating characters are buried. MORE >>
Sun, Jun 23, 2013. On this self-drive tour through Los Angeles' canyons and valley, you can self-drive or carpool so you can set your own pace — perfect for a laid back Sunday. Dwell Home Tours allow design seekers to immerse themselves in “Dwell-like” domestic spaces. These unique homes are specially selected by Dwell to reflect the rich diversity of livable, innovative modern architecture and design found throughout Los Angeles. Join Dwell for what promises to be two nights and three days full of interesting architecture and people during the Dwell Home Tours. A portion of the Home Tour ticket proceeds will go to our non-profit partner, Architecture for Humanity. MORE >>
Sat, Jun 29, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 6, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 13, 2013. Explore Charles Bukowski's lost Los Angeles and the fascinating contradictions that make this great local writer such a hoot to explore in a raucous day out celebrating liquor, ladies, pimps and poets. After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 20, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 20, 2013. Ride along on a very pulpy path on this wide-ranging tour that digs deep into the literature, film and real life vices that inform that most murderous genre, film noir - from "Double Indemnity" (where Raymond Chandler's Hollywood career intersects with Cain's) to "The Postman Always Rings Twice" to "Mildred Pierce" and beyond. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 27, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Jul 27, 2013. The Black Dahlia murder in 1947 is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What was it about Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) that keeps her the object of obsessive fascination by writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, cops and readers, more than sixty years after she was slain? The Real Black Dahlia Crime Bus Tour seeks to answer this question by exploring the last weeks of her life. Tour starts at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown L.A. MORE >>
Sat, Aug 3, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Aug 24, 2013. This is a tour about the populated, vibrant mid-20th Century Downtown L.A. you've only heard about, and about the 21st Century Downtown which will rise again with a richness of heritage and quality of life that leaves natives and visitors gaping in disbelief. Discover invisible neighborhoods and great public spaces which managed to escape the wrecking ball and learn how gentrification sprung up on the city's meanest streets, with all the conflicts that go along with a major socio-economic shift in a small community. This is a tour about the real Los Angeles, the city even natives don't know. MORE >>
Sat, Aug 31, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Sep 7, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Sep 21, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, Sep 28, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Oct 5, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Oct 19, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, Oct 26, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Nov 2, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Nov 16, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, Nov 30, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
Sat, Dec 7, 2013. Visit a temple, an herbal shop, art galleries, antique stores and more when guided to the unique treasures - not to mention great bargains - to be found in Chinatown. The 2 1/2 hour walking tour will be offered on the first Saturday of every month and will take visitors to a number of off-the-beaten-track points of interest, and will guide those interested in shopping to some of Chinatown’s best bargains and its trendiest shops. MORE >>
Sat, Dec 21, 2013. Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that's home to nine Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton. Among these are the personal residences of Myron Hunt and of Charles Greene, whose house evolved between 1902 and 1915 as his family grew and his design ideas matured. The tour will also visit the elegant Greene and Greene-designed portals and gates of Westmoreland Place. MORE >>
Sat, Dec 28, 2013. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with Museum docents. The last Saturday of the month - weather permitting. MORE >>
|
|
