Not an ordinary bus tour. Veer off into fascinating, neglected neighborhoods. A tour with expert guides who are passionate, brainy and hilarious.
Guaranteed an intelligent, unpredictable ride into the secret heart of the city we love.
Recommended for natives, tourists and anyone who likes to dig a little deeper and discover the world beyond the everyday. Come ride and see for yourself.
This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated from deft and melancholy fits of his writer’s bow.
Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a five hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: Musso & Frank, Union Station, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio’s gates, and much, much more.
Through published work, private correspondence, screenplays and film adaptations, we trace Chandler’s search for meaning and his anti-hero Philip Marlowe’s struggle to not be pigeonholed or give anything less than all he has, which lead them both down the rabbit hole of isolation, depression, and drink.
Bus Departs from Lincoln Heights Gold Line Metro Station. Bathroom on the bus. Okay to bring food and drink on bus; we stop for complementary gelato during the tour
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