by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 24, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Steve Lech, historian and docent with the Mission Inn Foundation, to learn about that hotel’s rich history, which dates back more than a century. We’ll also talk with Erin Gettis, Principal Planner and City Historic...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 17, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Diana McIntyre, Curator and Docent Coordinator of the Point Vincente Interpretive Center, about the upcoming whale watching season, and their museum, which is home to the world’s largest collection of Marineland memorabilia. We’ll...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 10, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we head south to Orange County, where we’ll talk with Cynthia Ward about the pleasures and challenges she’s experienced as a Trustee of the historic Anaheim Cemetery. We’ll also visit with archivist Angel Diaz to learn about her...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 3, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Scott Rubel to get the story of his uncle Michael’s Rubel Castle, a breathtaking folk art environment in Glendora. We’ll also visit with Mitchell Crawford, who recalls his family’s San Gabriel Valley retail empire,...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Oct 27, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Tim Whalen, Director of the Getty Conservation Institute, about the decade of work the Institute and the city’s Office of Historic Resources have spent creating SurveyLA, an online framework for cataloging historic resources...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 29, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Kate Eggert & Krisy Gosney of the Save the Santa Monica Boulevard Streamline Moderne campaign, for the riveting saga of their astounding grassroots preservation efforts to save these important structures from what looked to be...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 22, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week for a special episode dedicated to South L.A.‘s tiled folk art environments, from the celebrated to the obscure. Our guests are Alison Bruesehoff, executive director of the Rancho Dominquez Adobe Museum, and Brain Kaiser, Southern...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 11, 2014 | podcast
Join us as we talk with the irrepressible Myllie Taylor, Boyle Heights native daughter, about her suburban adventures in the newly-formed community of La Mirada in the early 1960s. We’ll also visit with Louis Alvarez, managing partner of the Sycamore Inn in...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 8, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit again with Emma Roberts, Rare Books librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library, as part of an ongoing guided tour of some of the gems in her care. We’ll also talk with Richard Adkins, past-President of Hollywood Heritage, about the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 1, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Ellen Calomiris, Executive Director of the historic Rancho Los Cerritos in Long Beach, about the past three decades of curatorial strategies for preserving and interpreting this time capsule of California’s Rancho days....
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 25, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Philip Mershon, owner/operator of the Felix in Hollywood Tour Company about his abiding passion for recapturing the past and making it tangible to us today. We’ll also visit with Denise (yes, just Denise), bartender at...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 11, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison about his childhood memories of Angels Flight, the neighborhood’s iconic incline railroad. We’ll also talk with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy for the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 4, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with author David Boulé to learn about “The Orange and the Dream of California,” his new book packed with juicy citrus lore. We’ll also talk with Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge about his dear friend Huell...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 28, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Richard Adkins, past-President of Hollywood Heritage, for insights into the early years of the legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home of the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. We’ll also talk with April Dammann, about...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 21, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with writer Jon Boornstin about his non-fiction novel “Mabel & Me,” which chronicles the adventures of silent screen comedienne Mabel Normand. Next we’ll drop down to Fullerton meet Kevin Carter and hear about his...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 14, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Albert Okura, founder of Southern California’s rotisserie chicken restaurant chain Juan Pollo, and self-proclaimed “fast food king” of the Inland Empire, to learn about his 50-year-plan for success and musings on the mercurial nature...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 7, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, for an update on the humanitarian and public policy crisis facing Skid Row. We’ll also talk with Cal State Los Angeles History Professor Mark Wild about Garfield Bromley Oxnam, a...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 30, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with preservation advocate Kate Eggert about the grave threat facing two notable West Hollywood buildings, a 1938 Wurdman & Beckett Streamline Moderne animal hospital and a 1959 Barry Berkus Mid-Century Modern office building....
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 23, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Gordon Pattison in a food court in the Wells Fargo Plaza—the site of his beloved childhood neighborhood, which was leveled in the early 1960s for the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project. We’ll also visit with...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 16, 2014 | podcast
Join us as we focus on the Boyle Heights community that has rallied to protect the Wyvernwood Garden Apartments (David J. Witmer and Loyall F. Watson, 1939) from threatened redevelopment. We’ll hear from Cal State Los Angeles professor Bidhan Roy, community...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 9, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Bob Adjemian about his golden youth clerking at the legendary Pickwick Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard. We’ll also visit with Brian Kaiser, Southern California’s tile expert, to explore the design and manufacture of the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 2, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with State Parks Ranger Jean Rhyne for her tips for exploring nature in the Antelope Valley this summer. Then we’ll dip down to Long Beach, where poet-machinist Fred Voss shares the early morning fantasies of his 4th Street commute....
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 26, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as dip down to Long Beach where Kerstin Kansteiner shares the inspiration behind her popular establishments Portfolio Coffeehouse and Berlin Bistro. We’ll also visit with poet Joan Jobe Smith to hear about her mentor Charles Bukowski and...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 19, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with City Archivist Michael Holland about more exciting relics from Los Angeles’ past he’s uncovered in “The Vault.” We’ll also visit with author Stephen Gee to hear about Union Station’s 75th...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 12, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with the colorful Antonio Pellini, whose Eatalian Café is a culinary oasis in industrial Gardena. We’ll also talk with Swami Atmatatvenanda about the mystic British writer Gerald Heard’s time at the venerable Vedanta Society...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 5, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Cathee Shultz, who with her husband J.D. runs the eclectic and macabre Museum of Death in Hollywood. We’ll also visit with Bob Adjemian, manager of the Vedanta Press, to learn about the writer Christopher Isherwood’s...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 28, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with the magnificently mustachio’d historian Paul Greenstein about the old Llano del Rio colony in the Antelope Valley and its upcoming May Day centennial celebration. We’ll also visit with Chris Nichols to learn about...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 21, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Altadena’s own compost guru, Tim Dundon, for a mind-expanding primer on how to get composting in your own backyard (or balcony) in no time. We’ll also talk with Professor Paul Rood about the surprising Jewish influence on...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 14, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we drop by City Hall, the most iconic Film Noir location in Los Angeles, to talk with poet and educator Suzanne Lummis about the Poetry Noir genre and National Poetry month. We’ll also visit with Ranger Jean Rhyne of the California State...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 7, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Gail Pierce of the Historic Neff House in La Mirada, the childhood home of architect Wallace Neff. We also visit with poet Cece Peri to discuss the origins and techniques of that most cinematic literary genre, Poem Noir. We’ll...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 31, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Urban Planning Professor and an Associate Dean at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, about the sidewalks and other public spaces of Los Angeles, the challenges they face and the promise they hold....
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 24, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with historian Philip Mershon as he reveals the inspirations behind his 90-minute Sunset Boulevard entertainment history walking tour and his Felix In Hollywood Tour Company. We’ll also visit with 80-something Myllie Taylor, a...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 17, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we slip into the Bradbury Building and find actress Dale Raoul lurking on a mezzanine, in the mood to muse on April’s Poem Noir-themed LAVA Sunday Salon, and the poems of fellow Salon presenter Suzanne Lummis. We’ll also visit with...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 10, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Cathee Shultz, who with her husband J.D. runs the eclectic and macabre Museum of Death in Hollywood. We’ll also visit with Southern California tile expert Brian Kaiser to discover the fascinating history of John Roebling &...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 3, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with historian Jim Dawson about his book “Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction’s Mean Streets and Film Noir’s Ground Zero!” and how this lost neighborhood has infiltrated the collective consciousness of...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 24, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Marc Chevalier, historian of the Oviatt Building, about debunking myths and bringing L.A.‘s past back to life. We’ll also visit with Terence Eagen, who is restoring Henry Huntington’s century-old “faux...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 17, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Gale Banks, the guru of automotive turbo-charging, about the mentors and apprenticeships that shaped his career in high performance. We’ll also visit with Erick Lopez, a Los Angeles City Planner, to learn about about zoning...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 10, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Jackie Miller of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson’s Heritage Center on Echo Park about the celebrated evangelist’s motion picture connections, including Charlie Chaplin’s mentorship and her friendship with the young...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 3, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with historian Don Lattin about the British expatriate writers Gerald Heard & Aldous Huxley and their work with Eastern Mysticism and psychedelics. We’ll also pay a visit to Tim Dundon, aka Zeke The Sheik, Altadena’s...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jan 27, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Dan Lewis, Chief Curator of Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, about “Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times,” the permanent installation in the Library’s newly renovated Exhibit Hall. We’ll also visit with Justin,...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jan 20, 2014 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Ed Nordskog, senior arson investigator for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, about his new book, “Fire Raisers, Freaks and Fiends: Obsessive Arsonists in the California Foothills.” We’ll also visit...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Dec 16, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Gale Banks, the guru of high-performance automotive turbo-charging, about his time as a child prodigy on the Southern California evangelical circuit in the 1950s. We’ll also visit with Craig Berry of the Star Sapphire Lodge of...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Dec 9, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with actor/producer Paul Sand about his “Song Story” of Brecht-Weill tunes, a 1920’s German, waterfront cabaret act with pretty girls, and handsome men singing songs of revenge, murder and broken hearts at the far Western...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Dec 2, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with writer Rick Baudé about his research into the little-known Great Eleven cult, a fascinating group whose eccentricities and brash proselytizing provide backdrop to “The Kept Girl,” our Kim Cooper’s forthcoming novel...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 25, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with novelist Martin Turnbull about the celebrated and much lamented Garden of Allah, from its humble beginnings as a fixer-upper for silent screen star Alla Nazimova to its halcyon days as club house for the Hollywood “Smart...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 11, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Jackie Miller, historian at the Parsonage of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, about the design and construction of the monumental Angelus Temple which opened on New Year’s Day, 1923 at the north end of Echo Park. We’ll also...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 11, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Dave Judson, the 5th generation proprietor of the Judson stained glass studios (founded 1895) about the rich legacy of the Arroyo Guild of Craftsmen and its role in the Southern California Arts & Crafts movement. We’ll also...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Nov 4, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Carolyn Paxton, proprietor of Urban Radish, about the inspirations behind her new gourmet market in the Arts District. We’ll also visit with curator Terry Ellsworth to get a cross-section of life at the corner of Traction & Hewitt...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Oct 28, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Ken Bernstein, Manager of the Office of Historic Resources of the City of Los Angeles, about that organization and its creation and oversight of the city’s Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. We’ll also visit with Tom...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Oct 21, 2013 | podcast
This week we visit with Michael Holland, acting City Archivist, as he unearths civic treasures from deep in the vault, among them early photos of the soon-to-be-demolished 6th Street Viaduct. We’ll also talk with Kevin Mulcahy of RAC Design Build Studios about...
