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Historic LA Bus Tours Find Pandemic-Era Life Online With New Tech
Hey, are you planning on touring Los Angeles with a bus full of people in the near future? No? Yeah, we didn't think so.
That's why Esotouric is taking it's popular tours through the history of Los Angeles and pivoting to an online experience. They've spent the past 13 years giving tours of the city, so they know what's lying beneath the surface that you haven't seen and don't know.
This weekend they're talking the historically passionate through the history of the Bradbury Building. In the first of their online seminars, they'll be telling you all about why the Bradbury Building's vibe used to be like a great bar with all the most interesting people, and how LAPD Internal Affairs changed all that. And next week, they're giving you a tour of the early 20th century Dutch Chocolate Shop.
Esotouric wanted to make sure their talks did not look like city council meetings, so they searched far and wide to find the right online presentation software that isn't just "we'll do a Zoom." You can check them out this weekend for $10, with the archive available to watch for a week.
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