Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Bus & Walking Tour of Downtown L.A.

The Esotouric Bus - At Philippes The Original (Los Angeles, CA)

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    Join host Richard Schave, the founding director of the Downtown LA Art Walk, on a tour that reveals the secret history, and the fascinating future, of this most beguiling L.A. 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.

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    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 L. Caldwell's studio