We’ve all seen the buses in Hollywood — following a stale lists of stars homes. “So and so lived there, some one else lives there now.”
It’s as exciting as waiting for rain in Santa Monica.
Tourists don’t want to see where people lived, it’s much more interesting to see where they died. Learn how they died, deep down, we’re much more interested in Saw IV than When Harry Met Sally. So along comes Esotouric – a tour company that has put death and mayhem back in the tour business and then end it with 
a cocktail.
Esotouric has released its schedule for next year and plans to include its Real Black Dahlia tour, the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short.
Esotouric will take tourists to the real underbelly of Hollywood and explores the crime and passion that helped create the legend of the city of stars. According to organizers, some tours fill up quickly and it’s good to make reservations.
For more information, go to Esotoric’s website or call 323-223-2767
Here’s Esotouric’s current schedule
Sat January 9 – The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour
Sat January 16 – Wild Wild West Side crime bus tour
Sat January 23 Weird West Adams crime bus tour
Sat January 30 – East Side Babylon crime bus tour
Sun Feb 7 – Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: South LA
Sat Feb 13 – Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66
Thurs Feb 18 Jeremy Kasten presents “Spider Baby” with director Jack Hill
Sat Feb 20 – Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The New Chinatowns
Sun Feb 21 – Joan Renner lecture “How the ‘Bob’ Changed History” (tentative)
Sat Feb 27 – Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Lowdown on Downtown-The
Secret History of LA
Sat March 6 – Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice crime bus tour
Sat March 13 – Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
Sat March 20 – Maja’s Mysteries: Rapture & Release (debut)
Sat March 27 – Raymond Chandler’s Bay City
Sat April 3 John Buntin’s L.A. Noir
Sat April 10 Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.
Sat April 24 Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s L.A.
Sat May 1 – Pasadena Confidential crime bus tour with Crimebo the Clown
Sat May 8 – Blood & Dumplings crime bus tour
Sat May 15 – The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour
Sat May 22 – The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain’s So. Cal Nightmare
