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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents The Dark Side of the West Side webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 27.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nWhile sun\, sand and sea may be sweet diversions for some\, coastal Los Angeles has been the site of some deeply strange and fascinating crimes. And it’s not just the contrast with the surroundings that makes these tales so shocking. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.‘s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a time travel trip on the dark side of the West Side\, as they dig into the true crime archives and share a selection of weird historic tales you won’t find featured in the tourist guides. From Synanon to the House of Horrors\, the mummified cult priestess to the pier creeper\, you’ll thrill and shudder to tales of weird antics set against the backdrop of the pounding Pacific surf. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring true crime history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:In The Shadow of the Hotel Cecil: A Main Street Time Travel webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 20.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nOne of the most fascinating\, mysterious and poorly understood buildings in Los Angeles is the Hotel Cecil. \nProminently situated in the heart of historic Skid Row\, the Cecil has witnessed the neighborhood’s transformation from central business district to anything goes vice zone\, from cheap flophouses to gentrified loft district. \nWhen Esotouric gave its first tours of Downtown L.A. true crime and cultural history in 2007\, the Hotel Cecil was a featured location\, notable for its association with the Richard Ramirez Night Stalker murders and with dark tourism slayer Jack Unterweger\, and several less high profile deaths. \nBut it wasn’t until 2013\, when Canadian tourist Elisa Lam vanished under mysterious circumstances\, only to be discovered floating in the Cecil’s rooftop water tank\, that the hotel became an object of fascination for armchair true crime sleuths around the world. \nSo what else is there to say about the Hotel Cecil? Everything! \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of the notorious\, beautiful and misunderstood Hotel Cecil and its history of mysterious deaths\, peculiar management choices and central role in popularizing the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program. We’ll talk about the high profile crimes associated with the building\, and some lesser known tales. And we’ll step outside to get to know the lost world of tattoo parlors\, freak shows\, burlesque houses\, B-girl bars\, pawn shops\, dime a dance halls\, dirty movie houses and rescue missions that once were the hotel’s neighbors. \nEsotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are the go-to experts for journalists covering the Hotel Cecil and Skid Row history\, and appear in the forthcoming Netflix series “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.” \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the Hotel Cecil and Main Street to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Celebrates Los Angeles Historic Preservation\, 1900s-1980s
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 13. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nAlmost as long as Los Angeles has been a city\, Angelenos have worried that it is changing too fast and its landmarks being lost. The threat to historic places has never been greater than in today’s climate of relentless development and political corruption. And yet\, this is also a golden age for preservation activism\, with powerful digital tools that let citizens organize\, communicate and often succeed in saving the places they love. \nEvery 21st century L.A. preservationist stands on the shoulders of giants—so let’s get to know them. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual celebration of the preservation people of Los Angeles from the 1900s through the 1980s\, telling the stories of the passionate\, colorful and just plain cranky folks who took a stand for our shared history and left the city better than they found it. You’ll also learn about the public policy wonks who shaped one of the nation’s earliest and strongest preservation ordinances\, ensuring that some very special landmarks and landscapes were preserved. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are Los Angeles cultural historians\, and passionate preservationists\, having worked on such varied campaigns as landmarking the Los Angeles Times buildings and writer Charles Bukowski’s East Hollywood bungalow\, spearheading restoration of Sheila Klein’s dismantled streetlight sculpture Vermonica and restoring Angels Flight Railway to service. Learn more about their preservation work. \nThe webinar will reveal: \n\n\nHow author and civic booster Charles Fletcher Lummis rallied Edwardian Angelenos to form the Landmarks Club and fund restoration of California Mission buildings whose adobe walls were on the verge of melting into mud. \n\n\nHow single mother Christine Sterling worked relentlessly to halt demolition of L.A.’s oldest house\, the Avila Adobe\, and to transform the seedy surrounding neighborhood into the abiding small business district and tourist attraction\, Olvera Street. \n\n\nHow City Planner Calvin Hamilton brought the Indiana model of preservation to Los Angeles in the 1960s\, and created a public policy framework for designating and protecting significant landmarks. \n\n\nHow the Cultural Heritage Board under Carl Dentzel created Heritage Square\, where significant houses were moved from redeveloping neighborhoods like Bunker Hill. \n\n\nHow the citizens of Angelino Heights restored their landmark Victorian homes\, buried unsightly modern electrical wires and advocated to become the city’s first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. \n\n\nHow preservation nonprofits like Hollywood Heritage\, Keep Old Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Conservancy became a powerful force in shaping preservation policy. \n\n\nSpecial guests will include Margaret Bach\, founding president of the Los Angeles Conservancy\, and Jean Bruce Poole\, the first curator of El Pueblo\, sharing insights into their work preserving and interpreting the historic built environment of Los Angeles. Plus\, Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison will talk about how his family’s Bunker Hill Victorians were the first buildings moved to Heritage Square\, and the tragic tale of their loss to fire. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and ephemera that will bring the history of preservation in Los Angeles to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, you’ll have a chance to ask questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/preservation-1900s-1980s-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Touring Southern California's Architecture of Death with historian Nathan Marsak
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 6.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nAre you a taphophile—fascinated with cemeteries\, gravestones and the culture of death and mourning? Join the club\, and reserve your spot as Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, teams up with Nathan Marsak\, America’s wittiest historian of mortuary architecture\, for an immersive illustrated lecture on the early cemeteries and innovative mausoleum designs of Southern California. \nWe’ll begin the program with rare photographs and some fascinating stories about City Cemetery and Old Calvary\, two of the earliest American burial grounds in the historic heart of Los Angeles. As the city grew\, the cemeteries were relocated\, leaving tantalizing traces of how death and life were once entwined around Olvera Street. \nFrom these lesser known mid-19th century graveyards\, we’ll fast forward to the 1910s\, when new ideas in hygiene\, architecture and civic pride shaped the development of a different kind of memorial landscape: the community mausoleum. \nThese public burial vaults reflected a burgeoning modernism: they were\, in effect\, early multifamily housing constructed of steel-reinforced concrete\, built in a functional and spare style intended to connote solemnity\, but to also provide the necessary hygienic element. Just as pioneers of concrete residential architecture worked to make their structures fireproof\, durable and sanitary\, so did the builders of mausolea; modernist masters like Irving Gill would similarly obsess over hygienic concerns of drainage and ventilation. But unlike private homes\, public mausolea were meant to evoke a peaceful eternity\, represented through exquisite use of stained glass. \nThrough vintage and contemporary photos\, we’ll virtually explore the compelling histories of three significant structures\, erected over just four years: \n\n\nCommunity Mausoleum\, Anaheim Cemetery (architect Charles E. Shattuck\, 1914) \n\n\nInglewood Mausoleum\, Inglewood Cemetery (architects Buchanan & Brockway\, 1915) \n\n\nHollywood Mausoleum\, Hollywood Cemetery now called Hollywood Forever (architects Marston & Van Pelt\, 1918) \n\n\nWe will also be joined by Prof. Steve Hackel of UC Riverside\, to talk about the Campo Santo at El Pueblo\, the first cemetery in Los Angeles (1822-1844)\, both its history as a cemetery\, and the controversy surrounding the recent unintentional unearthing of the graves during a renovation project by the County of Los Angeles in 2010. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring cemetery history to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Nathan\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Nathan Marsak: Nathan is the author of the books Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir\, Los Angeles Neon\, Bunker Noir!\, and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. You can find him online at his blogs\, Bunker Hill Los Angeles\, RIP Los Angeles\, and the On Bunker Hill. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/architecture-of-death-past/
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SUMMARY:The Biggest Little Country Store in the World: How Crawford’s Markets Fed the San Gabriel Valley and Transformed The Industry
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 30.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nOnce upon a time in the San Gabriel Valley\, families flocked to a very special chain of supermarkets owned\, operated and innovated by Leemoria Barbara and Wayland Howard “W.H.” Crawford. \nFrom the flagship 1929 Crawford’s Market at Valley and New in Alhambra (still extant with its 1964 Old West remodel) to Crawford’s Five Points in El Monte (“The Biggest Little Country Store in the World”)\, from Montebello to Rosemead\, Pasadena to Glendale\, these visionary grocery stores offered a great selection of fresh California produce\, dairy\, meat and staples–and so much more. \nConveniently located on huge corner lots in newly subdivided agricultural districts\, every Crawford’s was a mercantile village\, with small businesses to serve the needs of a post-war suburban customer base with growing families and money to spend. \nCustomers appreciated the convenience of combining the weekly marketing with a stop at the barber shop\, shoe repair or dry cleaner. Forgot to pick up something for the little lady on Valentine’s Day? Nip into the jewelry store for the perfect trifle.  Live plants\, sewing notions\, TV sets\, auto repair\, school clothes\, cameras\, eyeglasses\, fountain pens\, film and developing\, gasoline\, you could find all that and more at the store “open Sunday\, Monday and always” from 9 to 9. \nBut Crawford’s wasn’t just about the retail trade. Every store had a huge parking lot\, perfect for hosting community gatherings like Easter parades\, Hallowe’en costume contests or a visit from Santa Claus\, arriving in modern fashion by helicopter. You could support the El Monte Community Chest when buying a chunk of the world’s largest cheese round\, or take a spin on one of Bud Hulbert’s first kiddie rides–before he went to work for Knott’s Berry Farm. \nThe Crawford family’s markets are gone now\, but their mid-century innovations live on in unexpected places in retail\, merchandising and marketing\, and in the memories of San Gabriel Valley folks. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, and Mitchell Crawford for a virtual celebration of his grandparents’ legendary Crawford’s Market chain. Mitchell grew up working in the family business\, and has adapted what he learned to his successful international retail consulting career. Come discover a fascinating Southern California success story\, illustrated with rare vintage photos and insider lore. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Crawford’s Markets and mid-century San Gabriel Valley to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Mitchell\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nYou’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 90 minute running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/crawford-markets-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:John Bengtson’s "Silent Echoes in Westlake" Early Los Angeles Film Locations webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 23.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, as they team up with author John Bengtson ("the great detective of silent film locations" – New York Times) to present a virtual silent cinema location scavenger hunt through one of L.A.’s most historic neighborhoods: Westlake. \nTune into this webinar to travel in the footsteps of the great silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin\, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. \nWhen Los Angeles was young\, it was the biggest backlot in the world\, its landscapes and landmarks recognized by millions of fans. Although the city has grown and changed enormously\, many of these early cinema shooting locations survive. We’re flipping back the calendar pages for an immersive time travel trip to the silent city\, where you’ll thrill to discover the actual buildings and boulevards that appear in some of the greatest comic scenes ever filmed\, and marvel at John’s dogged detective work\, using vintage photos\, maps and primary source material to pinpoint exactly where the camera stood. \nInspired by\, and expanding on\, his popular in-person Esotouric sightseeing tour\, this webinar reveals the hidden cinema history that is everywhere in Los Angeles and the strategies\, research tricks and lucky breaks John uses to locate and match locations to their original film appearance a century ago. \nJohn says\, "Los Angeles was the most photographed city in the world\, especially during the silent film era\, when the great comedians traveled widely to shoot on location. Movies are time machines\, and the films from 90 to 100 years ago reveal so much of our past\, if only you know where to look. I’m so excited to share the onscreen history hiding in plain sight all around us\, as we explore the streets where Chaplin\, Keaton\, and Lloyd once worked and played. It was once all real\, and their silent echoes still reverberate gently." \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and film clips that will bring the golden age of silent cinema to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, John will answer your questions about silent film location sleuthing in Los Angeles\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 90 minute running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nJohn Bengtson is the author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton (2000)\, Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin (2006) and Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd. Visit his website at https://silentlocations.com \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/silent-echoes-westlake-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents George Mann’s Fabulous Vintage Views of Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, January 16. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nGeorge Mann (1905-1977) might be the most fascinating Angeleno you’ve never heard of. Born in Santa Monica and raised on healthy food and sunshine\, he shot up to 6’5” at Venice High School. His gangly limbs\, dancing prowess and penchant for ridiculous costumes made him a natural for comic vaudeville\, and with partner Dewey Barto (4’ 11” in his dancing shoes)\, they blazed a headlining path across the theater circuit. \nWith hours to kill in a new town every day before Barto & Mann’s set\, George took up photography\, and captured extraordinary candid backstage scenes of his talented friends\, and the theaters where his name was on the marquee. Later\, he added a film camera to his tool kit\, which is why we can see his pals The Three Stooges clowning around on Atlantic City’s Steel Pier with George’s bride Barbara Bradford. \nAs vaudeville faded\, George reinvented himself back in Los Angeles\, developing a custom 3-D photo viewer that he leased to local restaurants and offices to entertain customers waiting for service. Designed with the help of his friend Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame\, George’s photo viewers gave him the opportunity to travel across the Southland\, capturing vibrant new scenes to keep repeat customers interested. Made for a small audience and never published\, the images remained unseen for decades. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual celebration of George Mann’s creative and colorful life\, his remarkable photographs\, and the 3-D photography\, performing and engineering communities with which he was associated. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave first encountered George’s work in 2010\, when George’s daughter-in-law and archivist\, the photographer Dianne Woods reached out with the generous offer to share some of his 3-D color photos with readers of the On Bunker Hill blog. The early 1950s views of Bunker Hill prior to redevelopment were a revelation\, as were his photos of vintage restaurant signs\, and a crowded and lively Pershing Square. \nCheck out the George Mann posts on the On Bunker Hill Blog with Meet George Mann and there is Much More Mann Where That Came From. \nJoining us to tell George’s story are his son Brad Smith and daughter-in-law and archivist Dianne Woods and Chris Casady\, a 3-D photographer\, longtime member of the LA 3-D Club\, animator and proud owner of one of George’s original commercial 3-D viewing devices. \nTune in to get to know a fascinating Los Angeles character and see rare mid-century views that will transform your understanding of Southern California landmarks famous and forgotten—including some never before seen. (Please note that although many of the featured\nimages were originally shot and displayed in 3-D\, the webinar is a two-dimensional presentation.) \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring George Mann’s Los Angeles to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Brad\, Dianne and Chris will answer your questions about George Mann and 3-D photography\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/george-mann-3-d-los-angeles/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Pershing Square\, Los Angeles: the History\, Tragedy and Potential of Our Original Central Park\, 1866-2020
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, January 9. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nYou can’t miss it\, not even if you want to. In the heart of the city\, sits one of America’s most hated urban parks. \nCritics call Pershing Square a concrete hell-scape\, a confused collection of purple protuberances\, a zone of repulsion with no shade\, no place to sit\, nothing to look at— just a flat slab over a parking garage. \nBut once upon a time\, Pershing Square was the most beautiful and lively place in town\, a communal garden beloved by Downtown office workers and the boarding house and hotel dwellers of Bunker Hill and Skid Row. Tourists bought Pershing Square postcards\, hotels bragged about their proximity\, artists painted the passing scene\, and writers like John Fante\, Aldous Huxley and Hart Crane marveled at the human circus.     \nAs designed in 1910 by master architect John Parkinson\, who did the work at no cost as a gift to his adopted city\, the classic park boasted a central fountain\, long shaded walkways\, dozens of comfortable benches\, rare plants\, iconic memorials\, and memorable oddballs who attracted crowds to watch their antics. \nBut political pressure and changing demographics doomed the great park\, which lost much of its greenery when the soil was excavated for multi-level parking and a Cold War-era bomb shelter. Next came the design competitions and remodels\, each new iteration more unpleasant than the one before.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of Pershing Square’s humble origins and colorful golden age\, how everything went wrong\, and a hopeful glance forward at how it can once again be a great urban park. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who who launched the Pershing Square Restoration Society to advocate for including John Parkinson’s design in councilman Jose Huizar’s competition for a new Pershing Square design. When Huizar refused to even let citizens vote for the popular Parkinson plan\, Kim and Richard teamed up with other fans to critique the winning design\, tell the park’s story and promote historic restoration. \nJoining us to tell the the incredible Pershing Square story are Stephen Gee\, author of Iconic Vision: John Parkinson\, Architect of Los Angeles and Courtland Jindra\, the World War I memorialist who solved the mystery of the park’s lost 18th century siege cannon. \nOur guests will also include author Prof. Mark Wild\, Nathan Marsak\, Gordon Pattison\, and Kemal Cilengar. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring old Pershing Square to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Stephen and Courtland will answer your questions about Pershing Square history\, John Parkinson and the park’s memorial sculptures and artifacts\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/pershing-square-1866-2020-past/
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents A Love Letter to the Cafeterias of Old Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, January 2.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nSouthern California has long been where innovation happens\, especially in the kitchen. For our Christmas weekend webinar\, we’re taking a long and loving look back at the cafeterias that once dotted the Southland\, from legendary venues like Clifton’s\, Schaber’s and Boos Brothers to quirky gems like Finney’s (formerly the Dutch Chocolate Shop)\, Beadle’s\, Mission and Ontra (pronounced en-TRAY). \nOffering wholesome home cooking that a customer could see before paying\, and a wider variety of vegetables and salads than many Midwestern transplants had ever seen in one place\, 20th century cafeterias helped to shape California’s famously healthy diet\, while providing good fellowship\, good value and free entertainment to their devoted patrons. \nWithout hovering waitstaff eager to flip a table to increase their tips\, cafeterias became the de facto private clubhouses for regular folks who gathered in affinity groups\, among them lonely hearts clubs\, the Sierra Club and The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society\, a group of fans\, professional writers and rocket scientists that met at the newly opened Clifton’s Cafeteria in the mid-1930s. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of L.A.’s most charming\, inventive and affordable historic dining destinations. Drawing on original research into Clifford Clinton’s papers at UCLA Special Collections\, the Clinton family’s personal archives and years of obsessive sleuthing\, Esotouric’s love letter to the Cafeterias of Old Los Angeles will surprise\, delight\, educate and amuse you. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who have a deep love of cafeteria culture\, having grown up enjoying the family-friendly fare in the waning days of the great cafeteria age. For some years before the Clinton family sold the business\, they hosted a free monthly cultural salon series upstairs at Clifton’s Cafeteria on Broadway\, and later upstairs at the former Schaber’s Cafeteria (Les Noces du Figaro). \nTune in for a full tray of vintage cafeteria philosophy\, architecture and lore\, with a virtual plate of multicolored confetti jello on the side. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Los Angeles’ cafeteria history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about these historic restaurants\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/cafeterias-old-los-angeles-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents The Weird World of Programmatic Los Angeles Architecture webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 26. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nIn the 1920s\, when the sleepy little village of Los Angeles suddenly blossomed into a rocket fueled boomtown\, something very odd and interesting happened to its roadside architecture. \nAlong main arterials and at prominent corners\, savvy developers and ambitious business owners swiftly erected strange buildings that were also commercial signs—shaped like hats and flower pots\, tamales\, zeppelins\, chili bowls\, cameras\, owls\, windmills\, oil cans\, sailing ships\, puppy dogs\, grand pianos\, Egyptian sphinxes\, mushrooms\, hot dogs\, coffee pots\, icebergs\, even crashed aircraft.   \nThese inventive structures\, known by scholars as Programmatic or Mimetic architecture\, attracted the attention of a new class of consumer: automobile riders\, zipping past at speeds that demanded something truly eye-catching to get them to pull over. \nCritics\, too\, took notice of the oddly-shaped structures\, and used them to mock this new city at the end of the continent\, where bad taste was the flavor of the day. \nBut the weird buildings had the last laugh\, with some surviving into the 2020s to become treasured cultural landmarks\, and priceless commercial draws. Today\, the Randy’s Donut chain is expanding with new giant sinker rooftop signs\, and 1933 Group is close to reopening the restored Tail o’ The Pup after their acclaimed restoration of the barrel-shaped Idle Hour in North Hollywood.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of a century of Programmatic architecture and oddball signage\, including rare images and wild tales of the adventures of the strangest structures ever knocked together over a weekend by a couple of hustlers with a dream.   \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who have always been interested in Programmatic architecture\, first as the playful backdrop to their imaginations—wee Kim loved to walk into the whale’s mouth doorway at the Fish Shanty reaturant—and much later as a topic for research and interpretation in their bus tours and guidebooks. They even became the voice of a threatened oddball building\, appearing on local newscasts urging L.A. County to pass a preservation ordinance\, when East L.A.’s giant tamale went on the market at a teardown price. (It’s still standing!) \nWe’ll be joined by a very special guest\, architect\, advocate and historian Alan Hess\, who will share insights into the distinctly Southern California programmatic style and his many years working to bring respect and context to roadside vernacular architecture. \nAlan Hess says: “Though most east coast critics used L.A.’s Programmatic architecture as a cudgel to keep us snotty surfer upstarts in our place\, culturally speaking\, these Derbies\, Owls\, Oranges\, Donuts\, Tamales\, and Sphinxes have a much more profound architectural meaning. They were the first creative response to the car culture and the way it would reshape the American city through bolder scale\, wittier visuals\, cinemagraphic fantasias\, and lucid communication for the character of the suburban commercial strip. Even early in the twentieth century\, more insightful critics realized this. Industrial and theatrical designer Norman Bel Geddes wrote in 1932 that such architecture brings ‘unquestionably\, a new liveliness…into architecture and we may yet hear of it as one of the Seven Lively Arts. It can certainly be made as vivacious as the tabloids\, the talkies\, or vaudeville.'” \nAlso joining us is Bobby Green\, principal of 1933 Group\, the Los Angeles hospitality company that has restored the barrel-shaped Idle Hour restaurant\, preserved the replica Bulldog Café from the Petersen Museum\, and reversed the ruin of the Formosa Café. Bobby will share tales from the programmatic restoration trenches and preview upcoming projects\, including the much anticipated return of the Tail o’ the Pup. \nAnd Alison Martino from Vintage Los Angeles will be sharing her insights into the abiding popularity of these oddball buildings. \nTune in for a deep dive into the most curious and compelling only-in-L.A. landmarks that once dotted the landscape\, and those very special structures that survive. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring Los Angeles’ programmatic and signage landscape to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about these unusual buildings and their passion for historic preservation\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/programmatic-los-angeles-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents "A Cultural History of Angels Flight Railway\, 1901-2020" webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 19.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n \nIn the 1960s\, as the Community Redevelopment Agency prepared to tear down the Victorian neighborhood of Bunker Hill\, Angelenos (including the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times) urged them to preserve one small and delightful feature: Colonel J.W. Eddy’s efficient\, charming and portable funicular\, Angels Flight Railway. \nIn 1962\, Angels Flight was declared Historic-Cultural Monument #4\, in recognition of its significance\, and the threat to its survival. And the CRA pledged that the wee conveyance would be stored\, restored (using HUD grants)\, then reinstalled—in a few years\, when there was sufficient development atop the new Bunker Hill. \nAngels Flight was operating as sleepy Los Angeles grew into a metropolis\, and it was still running as old Bunker Hill was scraped away\, carrying occasional passengers up to a grim dusty plain that remained underutilized for many years\, as it became clear that the CRA had made a terrible mistake. \nBut in 1996\, as promised\, Angels Flight returned to service\, ferrying office workers\, history lovers and symphony and museum goers between Grand Central Market and Grand Avenue. \nAnd although its recent tenure has not been without drama and controversy\, Angels Flight stands today as a treasure of old Los Angeles\, its cars Olivet and Sinai twin time capsules that bring a lost world into focus for the bargain  price of a $1 ticket.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar celebrating the cultural history of Angels Flight Railway\, from its opening in 1901 through redevelopment\, the long years in storage and its recent revival. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave have been intrinsically involved in Angels Flight’s most recent return\, having been so upset on seeing the derelict funicular tagged with graffiti that they launched Angels Flight Friends And Neighbors (FANs)\, the advocacy group that successfully petitioned Mayor Eric Garcetti to step in and solve the apparently insurmountable licensing problems plaguing the privately owned Angels Flight. \nJoining us to share their unique insights are Karen Rittenberg\, the great-great niece of Angels Flight owner Robert Moore (1946-1952)\, Greg Moreland\, the grandson of Angels Flight owner Lester B. Moreland (1952-1962)\, and Steve DeWitt\, who is a senior Vice President at ACS Infrastructure\, the funicular’s current operator. Plus\, Bunker Hill historian Nathan Marsak will be in attendance\, along with Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison. \nThe webinar will reveal: \n• The colorful private operators who kept Angels Flight humming day and night for decades\, starting with the visionary creator\, Col. J.W. Eddy \n• A tour of the lost landmarks that once surrounded Angels Flight\, down at street level on Hill Street\, flanking the funicular along its tracks up Bunker Hill\, and on the hill itself \n• Angels Flight in popular culture\, as an early cinema and film noir location\, a student film favorite\, in video games (“L.A. Noire”)\, in fiction (John Fante’s “Ask The Dust”)\, and a beloved symbol of nostalgia for a lost Los Angeles for generations of visual artists \n• How Angels Flight survived the long decades in storage to become the star atop the tree of 1990s Bunker Hill redevelopment\, only to quickly flicker out again \n• The terrible story of an arrogant ski lift designer\, a careless redevelopment agency and a tragic passenger\, whose fates converged on a terrible funicular trip in 2001. \n• How Esotouric’s Kim and Richard got involved in saving Angels Flight after its 2013 derailment\, a wild tale that includes Eric Garcetti’s Vogue Magazine feature\, enlisting film producer Harold Nebenzal (“Cabaret\,” “M”) for a funicular fundraiser\, and how Angels Flight advocacy helped to get the Los Angeles Times buildings landmarked \n• Peculiar things about Angels Flight Railway that only its biggest fans might know or notice. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring Angels Flight Railway and old Bunker Hill to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about Angels Flight\, Downtown Los Angeles and their passion for historic preservation\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \nSo tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/angelsflight-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents “A Cultural History of Grand Central Market\, 1917-2020” webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nFor more than a century\, the heart and soul of Downtown Los Angeles has been an old-school\, open-air food market in the Homer Laughlin Building at 3rd and Broadway/Hill Streets. Grand Central Market was where generations of bargain hunting Angelenos shopped for spices\, flowers\, baked goods\, specialized cuts of meat\, farm-fresh produce and select prepared delicacies\, both local and imported. \nHere\, multicultural Los Angeles simmered in a vibrant and beautiful melting pot\, where colorful characters plied their trade and influenced the greater world beyond\, through food writing (Jonathan Gold was such a fan he shot part of his documentary in the market\, and the Broadway sidewalk outside was posthumously dedicated in his honor)\, the fine arts (1970s art star Andy Wilf made his name painting animal heads from the butcher counter)\, and cinema (one of the greatest chase scenes ever choreographed is from “Busting” (1974)\, a bloody shootout in Grand Central Market). \nIn the 1980s\, visionary developer Ira Yellin bought the market\, the adjacent Million Dollar Theatre and the Bradbury Building just across Broadway\, convinced that the neglected historic core of Los Angeles could become a vibrant live-work district. His faith and moxie led directly to the adaptive reuse ordinance that transformed empty office towers into residential lofts\, and kickstarted Downtown L.A.’s recent revival. \nAs Downtown boomed in the 2010s\, Grand Central Market changed\, transitioning away from grocery\, deli\, fresh meat and produce to concept-driven prepared food stalls\, and sparking concern about gentrification’s negative impacts and the loss of legacy vendors. But through it all\, Angelenos have come to the market and found good fare\, good company and a golden thread to L.A.’s fascinating past. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar celebrating the cultural history of Grand Central Market\, from 1917-2020\, with a preview of what’s next for the beloved landmark. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave each have long relationships with Grand Central Market\, through their series of free LAVA Sunday Salons in the basement\, their work steering historical artifacts from the market safe to a safer archival home at the Huntington Library\, patronage going back to decades—and more personally\, Kim’s grandfather Harry delivered Swedish imports to the market in the 1930s\, where he developed a taste for exotic treats that Kim is happy to have inherited. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll get to know Grand Central Market intimately through rare vintage photographs\, film clips and archival documents. You’ll see the market’s development from 1917\, as Los Angeles grew up around it into a metropolis\, and the market adapted to changing demographics\, tastes and innovations. \nYou’ll learn about memorable market stalls—some short-lived\, others that had the distinction of serving multiple generations as legacy vendors. You’ll get to know visionary developer Ira Yellin\, whose love of Downtown inspired him to become Grand Central Market’s second family owner in the 1980s. You’ll see how the market has changed during Downtown’s latest boom cycle\, and how tradition\, neon signage and some longtime vendors remain essential to the place. You’ll be there as Angelenos celebrate Grand Central Market’s 2017 centennial\, and discover how the market helped to save neighboring landmark Angels Flight Railway. And we’ll be joined Adam Daneshgar\, the third family owner\, to learn what’s in store as the market enters its second century.   \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring Grand Central Market then and now to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard and market owner Adam Daneshgar will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/grand-central-market-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:The United States of Preservation: Esotouric’s Ohio River Valley Virtual Vacation Road Trip Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Every year around Thanksgiving\, eclectic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company Esotouric organizes an all-day excursion to celebrate co-owner Richard Schave’s birthday and honor the preservation people who keep local landmarks alive. With a buffet lunch\, birthday cake and visits to fascinating sites\, the “birthday bus” is a must for those who love to explore Southern California in good company. \nThis year\, the coronavirus is keeping us apart—but Richard’s preservation party is still happening\, with an immersive virtual road trip that takes you far beyond the borders of Los Angeles and California\, to visit with some fascinating folks who care for historic places in the Ohio River Valley and to learn about their local landmarks. \nFor the first time\, Esotouric fans can join Kim and Richard on an out of state adventure\, replicating a road trip the couple took in 2018\, with guest appearances from stewards of historic places along the route. \nDestinations include: \n\n\n\nJohnstown\, Pennsylvania – settled in the late 1700s\, Johnstown was a port and key transfer point along the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal\, with a rich\, multi-cultural community and fine architecture. But its riverfront valley setting made it uniquely vulnerable to flooding. The Great Flood of 1889 took more than 2200 souls\, and inspired construction of a massive funicular railway system that makes L.A.’s Angels Flight look like a toy. Today\, the town is underpopulated\, with its handsome historic buildings offering opportunity for creative entrepreneurs. We’ll visit with Richard Burkert\, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association\, to learn about his work preserving\, reactivating and interpreting the history the town\, from the National Register Bethlehem Steel blacksmith shop to the Johnstown Flood Museum to the Heritage Discovery Center\, telling the story of the nation through the lives of local immigrants. There’s so much to see and learn in this little town\, you won’t want to leave.\nSteubenville\, Ohio – Named for the early American army defensive Fort Steuben\, this town on the Ohio River is famous as the birthplace of Dean Martin and for its many murals. We’ll be joined by passionate local booster Mark Nelson. Mark serves on the board of the Steubenville Historic Landmarks Foundation\, operates Leonardo’s Coffeehouse & Renaissance Coffee Roasting Co. in the landmark downtown Raney & Sheal Building that he restored\, organizes the annual Steubenville Nutcracker Village & Advent Market and is friends with a giant\, cranky salamander named Branagan. Mark will give us a whistle stop tour of Steubenville’s historic landscape and the creative tools he uses to activate and interpret them\, including a preview of the holiday Nutcracker festivities.\nNew Vrindaban\, West Virginia – An intentional community founded by ISKCON (followers of the Hare Krishna movement) in 1968\, New Vrindaban is home to Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold\, a rare American example of Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture\, the style associated with Raj-era India. Originally constructed by devotees of Krishna as an American residence for their spiritual teacher\, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\, their devotion gradually transformed the simple dwelling into a magnificent Palace of Gold situated in the beautiful rolling hills of rural West Virginia. The site includes magnificent rose\, terraced and lotus gardens and a brightly colored multi-domed shrine that is all the more remarkable for being the work of amateur architects and builders. For our virtual visit\, we will be joined by Banabhatta Das\, manager of the Palace of Gold. He will share with us the history of the community and its architecture\, describing the challenges of maintaining the buildings through West Virginia’s icy winters and explaining how the Palace of Gold functions as a physical manifestation of Krishna Consciousness. Through its recent addition to the National Register\, preservation of the structures and their cultural legacy serve as a continuing act of focus on Krishna Consciousness that seeks out the higher self within. You’ll be fascinated to learn about this unique spiritual site.\nMehlman Cafeteria (St. Clairsville\, Ohio) – It wouldn’t be an Esotouric tour without a special snack or meal stop. Family owned and operated since 1961\, stepping into this cozy eatery attached to a vintage motel on US Route 40 almost made us sob as we took in its delicious fare\, friendly service\, retro decor and similarities to the still standing\, but too much transformed\, Clifton’s Cafeteria in Downtown Los Angeles. For our virtual visit\, we’ll meet Danielle Mehlman\, fourth generation food service professional\, to learn the history of the cafeteria\, and how they keep the family traditions alive while adapting to 21st century tastes and the challenges of COVID. Keep a napkin handy\, because you’ll find your mouth watering at the sight of such homestyle favorites as mashed potatoes and gravy\, flaky sweet and savory pies\, baked puddings\, turkey dinners\, ham or meat loaf\, prime rib\, apple dumplings\, piping hot soups\, varied jello treats\, and of course Mehlman’s famous creamy\, cheesy broccoli casserole. You’ll understand why Mehlman’s was recently named one of the ten best cafeterias in America by Food & Wine and yearn to pay a real life visit one day.\n\n\n\nThis webinar is a virtual vacation road trip packed with vintage and contemporary photographs that will bring the gems of the Ohio River Valley to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. During the presentation\, our honored guests will answer your questions about the places they care for\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\n  \n  \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/united-states-preservation-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents "A Visit to Lost Bunker Hill with author Nathan Marsak" webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, November 28.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nWhen Los Angeles history lovers are asked to name the landmark they most regret was demolished\, the entire Bunker Hill neighborhood frequently tops the list. Perched above Downtown\, its photogenic collection of faded Queen Anne mansions turned rooming houses was a favorite subject of photographers\, painters and film noir cinematographers. Even though Bunker Hill was wiped away more than 50 years ago\, it lives on through thousands of images\, in the popular imagination\, and in a few precious relics that still survive–if you know where to look. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, as we welcome Bunker Hill expert Nathan Marsak for an immersive time travel trip to the lost neighborhood that is his obsession\, and that was very different from the bleak picture painted by politicians and redevelopment agencies. \nNathan is the author of the new book Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir (Angel City Press). \nGet ready to be captivated as Nathan shares never-before-seen images from his personal collection and tells the real story of the wonderful mixed use\, multi-generational\, low-income community that was wiped clean by the Federal bulldozer. \nAlso joining us is Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison. Gordon’s family owned the last two mansions still standing when the hill was redeveloped\, and he is likely the last person alive who can speak about life as part of the lost community. \nThe webinar will reveal: \n• Nathan Marsak’s personal\, fifteen-year research journey\, from true crime blogger (with our 1947project and On Bunker Hill sites) to publication of his book. \n• The tools Nathan uses to piece together a neighborhood that no longer exists\, from maps to census records\, newspaper archives to city directories\, miniature models to eBay bids\, and so much more. \n• The human cost of redevelopment\, revealed through the stories of several unforgettable Bunker Hill residents. \n• The surviving relics of Old Bunker Hill that you can visit today. \n• A visit from Nathan’s alter ego\, The Cranky Preservationist\, to tell you what we can learn from the urban planning failures of Bunker Hill\, and the tools and tactics 21st Century Angelenos can use to keep them from happening again. \n• Plus Nathan and Gordon will offer a narrated travelogue of an extraordinary piece of 1949 B-Roll film footage driving through the heart of lost Bunker Hill. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring lost Bunker Hill to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Nathan\, Gordon\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about Bunker Hill\, Downtown Los Angeles and their passion for historic preservation\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \n So\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious.  \n Can’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n To sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above at the top of the page. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Nathan Marsak: Nathan is the author of the books Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir and Los Angeles Neon and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. You can find him online at the On Bunker Hill and at RIP Los Angeles blogs. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/lost-bunker-hill/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents "This is Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles" Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, November 21.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive virtual tour of the historic places that shaped Charles Bukowski\, as a man and as a writer of fiction\, poetry and memoir. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave gave their first Charles Bukowski tour in 2007\, and immediately became entangled in a contentious campaign to landmark the writer’s former East Hollywood home. The campaign to preserve 5124 De Longpre Avenue was ultimately successful—but not before the property owners gained international headlines with the spurious claim that Bukowski was a Nazi. That’s why from the start\, Esotouric’s tour has included stories about historic preservation of the low income neighborhoods where Bukowski lived\, worked and grew as an artist. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll explore Charles Bukowski’s life in Los Angeles\, with intimate visits to places that shaped him as a person and an artist\, as he struggled to rise above his own demons\, addictions and dysfunctional relationships and find the voice within himself that was great. \nWe’ll track him to the West Adams district\, to the modest Spanish style house where he was tormented by his abusive father\, and to the raunchy Downtown Los Angeles entertainment zone where he found an escape with boyhood friends in the burlesque houses\, penny arcades and at Clifton’s Cafeteria. \nWe’ll visit the beautiful Central Library\, where the largely self-taught Bukowski looked for a literary role model and found him in John Fante’s "Ask the Dust" featuring Fante’s alter-ego Arturo Bandini\, a model for Bukowski’s Henry Chinaski persona. \nWe find him in General Hospital\, a deathly ill 30-something alcoholic\, scared straight by the realization that if his bleeding ulcer kills him\, he will never have written a decent line of poetry. Then he’s working for the U.S. Postal Service\, failing miserably at the civil servant game\, learning to play the ponies\, building a fan base with his confessional column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man\," gathering material for his great first novel “Post Office” and working up the courage to quit. \nWe’ll hang out along the sleazy commercial corridors of Hollywood and Western\, where Bukowski haunted the dive bars and socialized with sex workers. We’ll mourn his first great love Jane at her unmarked San Fernando Valley grave. And we’ll visit the quiet reading room at the Huntington Library\, where scholars can consult Bukowski’s personal archives and piece together new stories from what he left behind. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring Charles Bukowski’s story to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about their experiences exploring Charles Bukowski’s city\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \n\nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/bukowskis-los-angeles-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents “The 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing with Detective Mike Digby” webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, November 15.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar guest-hosted by bomb and arson detective and historian Mike Digby. \nMike will take us along on a scrupulously researched journey through early 20th Century Los Angeles\, bringing one of the nation’s most notorious criminal conspiracies to life. The Los Angeles Times Bombing case is a seminal teaching example which Mike has developed as curriculum for arson investigators\, has hosted as an Esotouric sightseeing tour (featured on Spectrum News 1)\, and now adapts into this webinar. While following the forensic leads of the unfolding case\, Mike will compare and contrast 21st century crime analysis methods with the tools available to investigators at the time. \nMike Digby is the author of these historic Los Angeles true crime books: The Bombs\, Bombers and Bombings of Los Angeles and A Bombing in the Wilshire-Pico District: The True Story of a 20th Century She-Devil and Her Plot to Murder\, Terrorize and Steal a Real Estate Empire in 1919 Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE CRIME: Late in the afternoon of September 30\, 1910\, a man left his downtown Los Angeles hotel and embarked on\, what for him\, was just another clandestine bombing mission. A veteran of more bombings than he cared to recall\, he had carefully scouted and selected his targets\, assembled the dynamite time bombs and prepared his alibis. To him\, this was supposed to be just another series of bombings. It would turn out to be anything but. \nCarrying a suitcase which held three time bombs\, or “infernal devices” as they were known\, he walked a short distance to the alley behind the Los Angeles Times. It was there in the shadows of that alley that he concealed one of the timed dynamite bombs. Within an hour\, he had placed identical timed dynamite bombs outside the homes of Los Angeles Times publisher General Harrison Gray Otis and Felix Zeehandelaar\, a close ally of General Otis’. \nThe bombings were part of a years-long and nationwide campaign of industrial sabotage and terror\, spearheaded by radical and conspiratorial elements within the national labor movement. It was their intention to bring union-resistant Los Angeles to its knees. \nConfident that his three bombs would explode long after he had left the city\, the man casually walked back to Los Angeles’ Santa Fe Station and boarded an evening train to San Francisco. Shortly after 1 AM on October 1\, 1910\, as the train continued traveling through the night\, a powerful explosion ripped through the Los Angeles Times building\, destroying much of the building and creating an inferno which resulted in twenty one deaths and scores of injuries. \nThanks to some determined investigative work\, effective exploitation of forensic evidence and a whole lot of luck\, a year-long manhunt across the United States resulted in the arrest\, trial and conviction of dozens of bombing co-conspirators – almost all of whom were senior executives within the labor movements. \nThis webinar will examine the National Dynamite Plot from its origins to its demise. We will follow the trail of the bombers\, from where the dynamite bombs were assembled to the locations where bombs were placed and exploded. Our discussion will include the reasons why each target was selected\, the courtroom shenanigans and other bombing sites which were intended to throw investigators off the trail. It was a conspiracy diabolical in scope and deadly in design. Like all plots\, it unraveled… in the most unlikely of ways. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, rare photos and archival material that will let you experience an historic investigation in real time\, through the eyes of an experienced bomb detective and historian. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Mike will answer your questions about this case\, his long career as a bomb and arson detective\, and his books\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious\, and their very special guest\, Mike Digby. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Mike Digby: After serving seven years in the United States Army\, Mike Digby joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where he served proudly for more than 34 years. For the last seventeen years\, he was assigned as a Detective Bomb Technician in the Arson/Bomb Squad where his duties included rendering safe and disassembling improvised explosive devices\, examining and disposing of military ordnance and conducting post-blast investigations. A self-proclaimed “bomb nerd” and decorated detective\, Mike has spent years studying the motives of bombers\, their methods of attack and the bombs that they built. He has served as technical advisor on BBC and Discovery Channel programs. He has authored two books\, The Bombs Bombers and Bombings of Los Angeles and A Bombing in the Wilshire-Pico District: The True Story of a 20th Century She-Devil and Her Plot to Murder\, Terrorize and Steal a Real Estate Empire in 1919 Los Angeles. His third is due out in December 2020. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/latimes-bombing-webinar-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T120000
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents “13 Uncanny Los Angeles Crimes & Mysteries” webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, November 7. Please join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n  \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.‘s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a special Hallowe’en program illuminating a ghastly selection of historic Los Angeles crimes and oddities. These 13 terrible tales were personally selected by true crime historian Kim Cooper to chill your blood for the spooky season. \nThe presentation includes a healthy blend of obscure and better known cases\, with a running Hallowe’en theme exploring the darker side of costumes and candy. You’ll marvel at the posthumous adventures of mummified old west bandit Elmer McCurdy\, shudder at the Svengali force of will that triggered the Trick or Treat Killing\, learn how one cute costumed San Fernando Valley tot’s death transformed the holiday forever\, and investigate Hollywood’s evolving Superman curse. These strange tales will fascinate and haunt you. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave have been leading groups to offbeat Los Angeles landmarks since 2006\, when fans of Kim’s 1947project true crime blog demanded she write guided tours of the historic crime scenes they’d been reading about. \nSleuthing out crime scenes and cool vintage signs and buildings with dozens of fellow L.A. lovers proved so much fun that Kim and Richard made a business of it\, and Esotouric was born. From their flagship true crime tour The Real Black Dahlia (“a Los Angeles classic” – L.A. Times) to neighborhood jaunts Pasadena Confidential\, Weird West Adams and Eastside Babylon\, to tours celebrating Raymond Chandler\, Charles Bukowski and L.A. Noir\, these outings are a must for Angelenos and savvy travelers. \nAlthough Esotouric’s tours are not presently operating due to COVID-19 public health directives\, urban explorers can still spend a Saturday afternoon discovering the secret heart of Los Angeles\, through the newly launched Esotouric webinar series. These illustrated lectures stream live (starting at noon Los Angeles time)\, with viewers participating in the lively chat and Q&A session. And the recording of each webinar is available to watch for one full week. After that\, webinars become available as part of the Esotouric On-Demand series. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, rare photos and archival material that will expose a secret history of mysterious Los Angeles crimes and mysteries\, and help scratch the itch of celebrating that rare Saturday\, full moon Hallowe’en without public events. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about these cases and their wider true crime research\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/halloween-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T120000
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents "Los Angeles Underground: Sleuthing Tunnels Lost & Found"
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, as they explore the murky history and rich lore surrounding the tunnel systems beneath Los Angeles. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave have been exploring L.A.’s underground\, on foot and through archival research\, for many years. \nKim was a member of the Los Angeles Cacophony Society\, which organized unsanctioned group incursions into streetcar tunnels and through the sanitary sewer system off the Los Angeles River. Since founding Esotouric in 2007\, Kim and Richard have explored the basement service tunnels beneath historic Downtown hotels like the Barclay and King Edward\, and have visited the legendary Subway Terminal Building basement to document the time capsule Pacific Electric station and the capped tunnel mouth. \nThey’re joined by special guest Nathan Marsak\, author of the recently released “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir\,” and a connoisseur of L.A.’s offbeat infrastructure and its Lizard People. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll slip beneath the city streets for an immersive survey of some notable small- and large-scale tunnel systems\, learn their history and mythology and get to know the engineers\, architects and amateur human moles who carved these secluded spaces out of the earth. \nWe’ll explore the evolving uses of privately owned service tunnels\, ghost signs and graffiti left behind by departed Angelenos\, the formation of mineral stalactites and stalagmites\, dangerous illegal excavations\, intriguing rumors of lost tunnels\, peculiar discoveries and legendary hordes of gold. And we’ll talk about how these unique spaces could be repurposed for public use\, and how you can virtually visit one historic service tunnel today. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, rare photos and archival material that will illuminate the mysterious tunnels beneath Los Angeles. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about tunnels\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/los-angeles-underground-2020past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T133000
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CREATED:20201002T193546Z
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents Shaking The Raymond Chandler Tree: New Discoveries About L.A.’s Master Detective Novelist
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available until Saturday\, October 24. Join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a deep dive into the evolving field of Raymond Chandler studies. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave gave their first tour of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles in 2007. As with all Esotouric tours\, the route and narrative has been subject to change\, with new locations added and original research reshaping how the story unfolds. \nWhile traveling in Chandler’s footsteps\, they’ve explored real-life crime scenes and time capsule landmarks where the author lived\, loved and worked—many of which show up in barely fictionalized fashion in the short stories and novels. \nAnd over thirteen years\, through ongoing research in special collections archives\, digital databases and around the city\, they made bombshell discoveries that are worthy of Chandler’s detective hero Philip Marlowe\, and that transform our understanding of who Raymond Chandler really was\, while illuminating personal mysteries he intended to take with him to the grave. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll take a virtual tour through Raymond Chandler’s life in Southern California\, with intimate visits to places that still carry a hint of the noir master’s cigar smoke. You’ll stroll down Olive Street\, where Chandler worked as an oil company executive and got a front row seat to the corruption and depravity that go hand in hand with wealth and power\, insights that he would weave into his writing. You’ll follow Philip Marlowe to a small room in a shabby Downtown hotel\, where someone is waiting with an icepick in their neck. And you’ll hear how we sleuthed out the existence of Chandler’s first serious piece of Los Angeles writing: a previously unknown comic operetta in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan\, a collaboration with Julian Pascal\, whose wife Cissy would become the love of his life. \nYou’ll also hear about Kim Cooper’s nonfiction novel “The Kept Girl\,” which features the young Chandler and a real-life model for Philip Marlowe on the trail of a cult of murderous angel worshippers\, and about the new Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles\, a collaboration between Cooper and artist Paul Rogers. \nOur very special guest for the webinar is Sybil Davis\, whose mother Jean Fracasse was Raymond Chandler’s last secretary\, and who enjoyed a unique relationship with the author as that rare child who he considered a friend. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring Raymond Chandler’s story to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nSo snap the brim of your favorite fedora as we virtually visit the real places and characters who inspired timeless tales like “The Big Sleep\,” “The Lady in the Lake” and “The Little Sister\,” and get to know the fascinating man behind the larger-than-life Raymond Chandler persona.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about their experiences exploring Raymond Chandler’s world\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/shake-chandler-tree-oct-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents “Black Dahlia Days: Sleuthing out Beth Short’s Southern California” Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. Join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, as we take a time travel trip in the footsteps of Beth Short\, the victim in the still unsolved 1947 Black Dahlia murder. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave\, and special guest Joan Renner\, are the hosts of the long-running The Real Black Dahlia tour\, acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “an L.A. classic.” Since it’s not currently possible to offer group tours\, we’re taking the storytelling online\, with a different take on Beth Short’s fluid and fascinating life story. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll tag along with three veteran true crime historians as they dig into the case that haunts them. We’ll introduce you to the basic beats of Beth Short’s narrative\, dispel some myths about the murder investigation and highlight the heartbreaking confluence of character and history that sealed the 22 year old drifter’s fate and ensured her immortality as a crime victim. \nWe’ll explore some of the time capsule locations that aren’t on the usual Real Black Dahlia tour route and share fascinating details from the investigation and archives. You’ll learn about Joan Renner’s curatorial work on the groundbreaking 2012 Los Angeles Police Museum exhibition\, “James Ellroy Presents ‘Elizabeth\,’” and see rare material from John Gilmore’s research files in UCLA Special Collections. Plus\, Joan will put on her cosmetics historian hat to provide rare insights into the psychology of Beth Short’s unusual make up choices. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring the Black Dahlia investigation and Beth Short’s story to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard and Joan will answer your questions about the case and their work telling the stories of Los Angeles through the lens of true crime and historic preservation\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nAbout Joan Renner: Joan is a writer\, lecturer\, and a social historian with an expertise in historic Los Angeles crime. Follow her antics on her blog\, Deranged LA Crimes. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/black-dahlia-october-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T120000
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Takes You “Inside The Dutch Chocolate Shop” Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available until Saturday\,  October 10th. Join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.‘s most eclectic sightseeing tour company as we take you behind an ugly metal grate to find something utterly magical in Downtown Los Angeles: Ernest Batchelder’s famed Dutch Chocolate Shop. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave have a special relationship with the Dutch Chocolate Shop\, leading tour guests into the space for more than a decade\, and having been given special access by the owner to explore every inch of the building in search of clues to its rich cultural and architectural history. They also helped to bring a previously unknown tile mural\, removed from the building’s walls decades ago\, to the Pasadena Museum of History for inclusion in the 2017 exhibit “Batchelder: Tilemaker.” \nIn this webinar\, you’ll get to know the secrets and mysteries of this fascinating structure\, learn about the colorful characters who shaped it\, get close to the tile to discover some hidden details\, and to hear our hopes for the building’s future. \nLos Angeles in the 1910s was a young metropolis with a taste for spectacle\, a brand-new motion picture industry and a growing middle class hungry for excitement. Quinby and Petitfils’ cultured Chocolate Shop chain specialized in attractive dining rooms geared to the feminine shopping and after theater set—but Chocolate Shop #4 (1914) was special. \nHere the proprietors spent a small fortune commissioning architects Plummer and Feil to craft a fantastical Old World environment\, where elaborate medieval brick groin vaults framed a pre-modern Dutch village in three dimensional tile murals\, each huge scene fired in Batchelder’s Arroyo Seco backyard. A pair of life sized sculpted Dutch children blew illuminated soap bubbles\, and a wee tile windmill stood atop the soda fountain. The cool\, dark tile offered a respite from the blazing California sun\, and a fantasy environment in which to sample delicious treats with your pals. \nBut despite the success of the Chocolate Shop’s local dining rooms and a brisk souvenir trade in bon bons packed in signature decorated California redwood boxes\, the chain sputtered out in the mid 1920s. \nFuture owners couldn’t bring themselves to redecorate\, which is how this masterpiece of the Arts & Crafts style came to be home to an influential health food restaurant\, a beloved cafeteria\, and most recently a funky\, multi-vendor swap meet\, before emerging back into public consciousness as a decorative art masterpiece in an incredible moment during one of our Downtown tours. \nAnd did we mention the weird quack medical clinic on the top floor? \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original photographs that will bring the Dutch Chocolate Shop and Ernest Batchelder’s Arroyo Seco tile studio to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions about the Dutch Chocolate Shop\, Batchelder tile\, Downtown Los Angeles and their passion for historic preservation\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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