by Kim Cooper | Oct 31, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Last Saturday—as we have about four times a year since Esotouric debuted in 2007—we booked a coach class bus on which to guide a large group on a tour about the unsolved 1947 murder of Beth Short, a case that shares the victim’s real life nickname, The Black...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 9, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
75 years ago today, a 22-year-old homeless woman named Beth Short went missing in Downtown Los Angeles. She would become famous in death as the Black Dahlia, a nickname she’d briefly worn in life. In 2005, we launched a true crime blog called the 1947project,...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 26, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Some believe that the architecture of the home that a person grows up in has a profound influence on their developing mind. So while the open-plan modernist houses of mid-century suburbia provided ample space for computing pioneers to imagine new worlds, it’s...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 22, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
2025 update: Sowden House (exterior only), which has new owners since we published this post in 2017, is a stop on our new Hollywood Noir walking tour. Welcome to the sixth in a series of 3-D explorable tours of historic Los Angeles spaces, created by Craig Sauer...
