by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Oct 14, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with LA Public Library map librarian Glenn Creason about the resources the collection can offer the curious urban researcher. Then we dip down to San Diego, for a visit with Louise Torio, board chair of the Friends Of the Villa Montezuma,...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Oct 7, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we focus on the Watts Towers, a unique folk art environment in south Los Angeles. We’ll visit with conservator Sylvia Dorsch to learn about the work the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has undertaken to stabilize and strengthen the site....
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 23, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Los Angeles poet Suzanne Lummis about poetry in the Southland, from her grandfather Charles Fletcher Lummis’ day to Charles Bukowski’s and into the present. We’ll also visit with Patricia Adler-Ingram, Executive...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 20, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we focus on the history of the landmark Parley Johnson House in Downey. We’ll visit with Florence Towers, President of the Downey Assistance League, to learn about the League’s stewardship of the 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival hacienda,...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 16, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with longtime Downtown LA resident Terry Ellsworth about the deep sense of community he found while living in the American Hotel in the Arts District. We’ll also visit with “Big John” Maljevic, who shares his father’s astonishing life...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 9, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Rare Books Librarian Emma Roberts about some unusual gems in the Los Angeles Public Library’s collection. We’ll also visit with Ken Bernstein, Head of the Office of Historic Resources for the City of Los Angeles, to...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Sep 2, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with pioneering Downtown restaurateur Judith Markoff Hansen about her remarkable journey opening Gorky’s at 8th & San Julian in 1981. We’ll also visit with acting City Archivist, Michael Holland, for an introduction to the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 19, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with Alison Bruesehoff, Executive Director of the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum, to talk about 18th century rancho life and the site’s prominent role in early California aviation. Then we meet Southern California’s tile...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 19, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Cal State Los Angeles history professor Mark Wild about his research into the contentious world of street speaking in early 20th century L.A. Then we cross the campus to visit the laboratories of the Criminalistics Department, for a...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 12, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we visit with raconteur and West Hollywood nightclub owner John Maljevic, to talk about his fifty-year friendship with the celebrated Western silversmith Charlie Sample. We’ll also sit down with Mike the PoeT (aka Mike Sonksen) to get the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Aug 5, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with J. Scott Smith about his 29 Palms photographic series, celebrating the varied beauty of Southern California’s palm trees. We’ll also visit with performance artist Tim Youd, while he types a Charles Bukowski novel in the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 29, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Paul Rood, Professor of Political Science at Biola University, and biographer of one of Los Angeles’ great philanthropists, Union Oil man Lyman Stewart. We’ll also talk with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 22, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Stephen Gee, author of a new book on the legacy of the iconic Los Angeles architect John Parkinson. We’ll also visit with Pat Adler Ingram, Director of the Southern California Historical Society, to discuss Charles Fletcher Lummis,...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 15, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Jennifer Bastian, Visual Resources Specialist at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, about her flavorful new “Exhibition in Six Courses: Testing Recipes from the Clark’s Manuscript Collection.” We’ll also...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 8, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Mona Leirich at the Villa Aurora, about the far reaching legacy of the literary lion Lion Feuchtwanger, who escaped the Nazis to come live in exile in the Pacific Palisades. We’ll also visit with Marcia Harris, who portrays Long...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jul 1, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Elaine, caretaker for evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson’s 1920s Moorish castle in Lake Elsinore, about the building’s history, design and role as Sister Aimee’s cherished retreat from the limelight. We’ll also...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 17, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode 22 of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Southern California tile expert Brian Kaiser about the German exile culture that flourished amidst the lovely tiles of the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. We’ll also visit with retired National...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 10, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode 21 of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Peggy Ronning, curator of the Antelope Valley Indian Museum, about the museum’s fascinating origins as a Hollywood set decorator’s fantasy getaway, his controversial collecting methods, and how...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 4, 2013 | podcast
Join us this week as we talk with Philip Estes, Regional Planner for the County of Los Angeles, about his work developing a new historic preservation ordinance. We’ll also sit down with community advocate and gallery director Jonathan Jerald and former CRA/LA...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jun 3, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Twenty of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Phyllis Comstock about Tomo-Kahni near Tehachapi, the historic winter home of the Kawaiisu tribe and one of the most remarkable parks in the California State Park system. We’ll also visit with...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 27, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Nineteen of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Dave Peters, Professor of Political Science at Biola University and board member the of La Mirada Historical Preservation Advisory Council, for the story of the school’s rich history, from its...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 20, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Eighteen of the Esotouric podcast as we sit down with two artists about their site-specific artwork in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District. Photographer Irving Greines has spent the past ten years documenting the layers and transformations of...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 13, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Seventeen of the Esotouric podcast as we visit with John Maljevic, manager of nightclubs in West Hollywood’s wild and golden age. We’ll also talk with Mickey Gallivan, Executive Director of the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, about...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | May 6, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Sixteen of the Esotouric podcast as we sit down with historian Marc Chevalier to debunk myths about the Oviatt Building and its influence on the American Art Deco style. We’ll also talk with Professor Don Johnson of Cal State L.A.‘s...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 29, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Fifteen of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Jenny Watts, curator of photographs at the Huntington Library, about the accession and digitization of 70,000 negatives from the archives of Southern California Edison, documenting electricity in the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 22, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Fourteen of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Jessica Holada, curator for the current Occidental College Library book arts exhibit, Where Bohemians Gathered, about early 20th century literary culture in North East Los Angeles. Then we’ll...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 15, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Thirteen of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with filmmaker Alina Skrzeszewska about her work capturing a vanishing neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Well also visit with the much beloved Ruth Ann Dome, dispatcher for the bus...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 8, 2013 | podcast
Listen To The Podcast https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/episode12.mp3 download episode Join us as we talk, yet again, with Julie Rivett, Dashiell Hammett’s granddaughter, about the Flintcraft Parable in the “Maltese Falcon,” a piercing...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Apr 1, 2013 | podcast
Join us as we visit with Vince Lugo, direct linear descent of Don Antonio Maria Lugo, whose 19th century Spanish Land Grant helped define Southern California. Vince will talk about his family and his father’s pride and joy, San Gabriel’s beloved—and...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 25, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Ten of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Gale Banks, holder of many land speed racing records, about Harvey’s Broiler in Downey, custom car culture and the evolution of California’s creative engine. We’ll also talk with Jackie...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 18, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Nine of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Dan Fante, poet, playwright, and novelist about Los Angeles, the creative process, fathers and sons and his new memoir. We’ll also talk with Julie Rivett, grand daughter of Dashiell Hammett, about...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 11, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Eight of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Marcia Harris, living history docent at Rancho Los Cerritos, about Fanny Bixby Spencer, an early 20th century suffragette, teetotaler, social reformer, and Long Beach’s own inspirational...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Mar 4, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Seven of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Maja D’Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, about the Southland’s occult legacy, the real meaning of Karma, and the incredible library at Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 25, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode This week we talk with Joe Holliday at East Jesus, an extendible, inhabitable art work in progress on the south eastern shore of the Salton Sea. We also check in with Brian Kaiser, Southern California’s tile expert, on saving antique tile, George...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 18, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Five of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Michael Dawson, of Dawson’s Book Shop-a Los Angeles institution since 1905-about his work on the newly-published photo book `William Reagh, A Long Walk Downtown,’‘ which chronicles the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 11, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Four of the Esotouric podcast as we talk with Dwain Carlo Crum, LAVA’s Visionary of the Year for 2013, world traveller and blogger, about the hidden gems of the San Gabriel Valley and the stewardship of swizzle stick collections. We’ll also...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Feb 1, 2013 | podcast
Tune in to Episode Three of the Esotouric podcast as we visit with Gordon Pattison, who grew up on old Bunker Hill in the Castle and the Salt Box, the last two Victorians to stand in the way of the CRA’s Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project in the late 1960s. Gordon...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jan 28, 2013 | podcast
In our latest podcast for the week of January 28th, 2013, we interview Jerry Blackburn of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation about the demolition last month of the last remaining workshops and assembly rooms from the former Downey Space Plant. These were spaces where the...
by Esotouric Bus Adventures | Jan 21, 2013 | podcast
Tune in for our inaugural podcast and catch up on High Performance, Hot Rods, Aerospace, and Rat Fink with Gale Banks, and Mike the Poet’s. eulogy to Huell Howser. And as always, cull tidbits from Kim & Richard’s wrap up of the week for January 21st, 2013....
