Esotouric, an eclectic motorcoach adventure and walking tour company specializing in tours that expose the seamier – and thrilling – side of LA’s lurid past, is offering a new 90-minute tour debuting Sept. 8. The new Main Street Vice tour celebrates the locales where burlesque babes, mummified Wild West outlaws, wax museums and gambling rackets could be found during the first half of the 20th century. Contrary to the area’s shocking past, Main Street is part of the internationally acclaimed Downtown renaissance and tour guides take time to showcase the street’s burgeoning elements. Esotouric Tours was recently named by Downtown News as the Editors Choice for the “Best Downtown LA Tours.” Among the company’s most popular tours, the half-day “Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place” winds through Downtown and Hollywood stopping at historic buildings, jails and other LA locales made famous in Chandler’s Philip Marlowe detective novels. Creepy true life scenes are also pointed out, such as the Black Dahlia’s last apartment and the lot where her body was discovered in 1946.
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