Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Bus & Walking Tour of Downtown L.A.
Esotouric Bus, At Nick's Cafe (1300 N Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012)
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FrugalFun on Where to Eat
Philippe's or Olvera Street
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FrugalFun on Where to Park
Nearby parking lot cost $4
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FrugalFun on What to Wear
Casual
Goldstar Member Reviews
Goldstar Member
Excellent - we have lived in LBC for 10 years but know little of LA -this was a great tour. Would love to do more!Written on Dec 19 2009
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I also reviewed on YELP:Written on Aug 30 2010
Took the "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Bus & Walking Tour of Downtown L.A" recently. Check-in was prompt. Tour left on time. Bus was comfy. Two of the five monitors were broken. Took four hours. First stop was the recently re-opened Angel's Flight which we rode down. Next we crossed the street to Grand Central Market. The guide took us inside but we DID NOT walk through. Advertised that there was a significant walking component but instead we would board the bus, get off, listen, board again only to be driven often as little as 2 blocks. The tour guide and his wife are very knowledgeable however there was often no structure and many off-topic tangents. The F-bomb was dropped too many times than I care for. As were political opinions. A 30 minute break at Clifton's Cafeteria was not enough time to wait in a crowded line and eat. Last stop was at an artist's personal loft - all work contained phalic and pornographics. Unsure why it was even part of this tour. I suggest sticking to facts about the actual buildings and areas, actually walking through or around the areas, toning down the language, keeping political opinions internal and replacing the artist stop with something more significantly downtown historical.
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Richard, the tour guy was very informative and fun!Written on Aug 31 2010
We are natives, but learned and was reminded of so many great places.
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More Information About Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Lowdown on Downtown Bus Tour
Description
Join your host Richard Schave, the founding director of the Downtown
LA Art Walk non-profit, on a tour that reveals the secret history, and
the fascinating future, of this most beguiling LA neighborhood.
This is a tour about the populated, vibrant mid-20th Century Downtown
Los Angeles 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. This is
a tour about Downtown's invisible neighborhoods and great public
spaces which managed to escape the wrecking ball. This is a tour about
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. Get on the bus for the real Lowdown on
Downtown, as no one but Esotouric's Richard Schave can reveal it.
Having studied under architecture critic Reyner Banham in the
mid-1980s, tour host Richard Schave has taken it upon himself to
correct his teacher’s gross oversight of downtown Los Angeles,
relegated to a dismissive coda in his seminal Los Angeles guidebook
Los Angeles: A Study of Four Ecologies. Richard and his wife Kim
Cooper work extensively with the history and lost cultures of downtown
in their bus tours, on blogs including On Bunker Hill, In SRO Land and
1947project, and through public lectures on the subject.
This tour has a significant walking component, down the stairs along
Angels Flight, around Pershing Square, through several other
pedestrian locations. We return to the bus to cool down and rest, and
passengers can remain on the bus if they wish, but please be prepared
to take a stroll.
Locations on the tour include:
- Angels Flight
- Grand Central Market
- Mercantile Arcade Building
- St. Vincent's Alley
- Artist David Hollen's art studio