The Last Bookstore presents 2 hour walking tours of the The Secret Lives of Historic Downtown Los Angeles - FEATURED In GQ MAGAZINE and Endorsed By - LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE and AMERICAN COWBMAGAZINE,
Among the many things you will learn this weekend is that if a friend of Wyatt Earp's had not built the Alexandria Hotel - it would have been impossible for George Gershwin to have written his iconic Rhapsody in Blue.
And all tours start at THE LAST BOOKSTORE in the Spring Arts Tower at 5th and Spring - enter on the 5th street side - and they are still only $15 per person.
FOR MORE INFORMATION - contact Brady Westwater at 213-804-8396 - or bradywestwater@gmail.com
BRADBURY BUILDING |
Wyatt Earp |
If you are a participant in 'Historic Downtown Los Angeles 101' Tour, you will see the first motion picture theater built, the place where Babe Ruth signed his contract with the Yankees, the hotel where Charlie Chaplin lived when he made his early films (and the place where he made his Los Angeles vaudeville debut in 1910) - plus the homes and haunts of everyone from actor Nicholas Cage, the Black Dahlia, Rudolph Valentino, LA’s version of Jack the Ripper, President Teddy Roosevelt, the Night Stalker, western outlaw Emmet Dalton, actor Ryan Gosling and more. And you will also visit where O. J. Simpson bought his knife.
You’ll explore an intersection where all four buildings were often visited by gunfighter/sheriff Wyatt Earp since they were all built or occupied by friends of his from Tombstone during the shoot-out at the OK Corral. At this intersection you will also discover what John Wayne, a prime minister of Italy, Houdini, Winston Churchill, boxer Jack Dempsey, Greta Garbo, President Woodrow Wilson and multiple Mexican boxing champions all had in common here.
You
will also see where the first new lofts were opened, the places where
Gallery Row and the Art Walk began and where Fashion Week returned to
Downtown. You will see many of the new boutiques, designer showrooms
and stores that have recently opened in the area along with getting a
sneak preview of what will soon be happening in the area.
Tickets for either tour are only $15 per person - free for children under 8 - and reservations can be made by calling Brady Westwater at 213-804-8396 or emailing bradywestwater@gmail.com. All credit card orders will be processed at Last Bookstore and cash payments may be made at the start of the tour. All proceeds will go towards the revitalization and the study of the history of the neighborhood.
Tickets for either tour are only $15 per person - free for children under 8 - and reservations can be made by calling Brady Westwater at 213-804-8396 or emailing bradywestwater@gmail.com. All credit card orders will be processed at Last Bookstore and cash payments may be made at the start of the tour. All proceeds will go towards the revitalization and the study of the history of the neighborhood.
Lastly,
future tours will feature specialized areas of interest such as
architecture, art of all kinds, shopping and food, single streets,
sports (from steer wrestling to luchador wrestlers to a Sumo wrestler),
transportation, specific periods of history, the hidden Wild West
history of Los Angeles, movie locations, Downtown after hours and many
other aspects of the neighborhood. And custom designed can be developed
by request for groups of four or more.
We
will also be soon starting weekday and evening tours on what it's like
to live in Downtown Los Angeles. You will be introduced to the many of
stores, restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues (and often their
owners, too) - along with being given previews of one of a kind special
events - so you can get a feel for what it is like to live in Downtown
Los Angeles.