This tour is now full. If you want to try to get a space on the tour, you may attend the LAVA Sunday Salon and ask about openings before the tour departs.
For the latest installment of urban historian Richard Schaveâ€
On this excursion weâ€
The tour is inspired by the September 2011 launch of a new series on the In SRO Land time travel blog featuring archival material from the collection of the Union Rescue Mission, which presents an opportunity for exploring the lost lore of the old commercial neighborhood which was largely cleared via eminent domain in the 1920s and 1930s in order to provide a clean slate for the erection of City Hall and other government buildings. This was a precursor to the much larger and more destructive eminent domain project by which the residential neighborhood Bunker Hill was cleared in the 1950s and 1960s.
Locations on the walking tour will include Joseph Newsomâ€
To start, we will seek to answer some basic questions about the early development of downtown Los Angeles:
• Who were the architects and financiers of 19th Century Los Angeles?
• Which buildings were most representative of these individualsâ€
• What did the Victorian-era Angeleno think of the architecture of his city?
• How did architecture reflect the growth of the city?
Having established these early themes, we will start to ask questions about the emotional and spiritual core of the city of Los Angeles –-its zeitgeist—and begin to draw the connection between architecture and the cityâ€
An example is the discussion of the Union Rescue Missionâ€
The tourâ€
TAKING THIS TOUR: This tour is now full. If you want to try to get a space on the tour, you may attend the LAVA Sunday Salon and ask about openings before the tour departs. – Reservations will be required for this free walking tour, and space is very limited for all events in this series. Reserve your space for the September 25 event by clicking “Signups†(THERE ARE NO “PLUS-ONES” – ONE RESERVATION PER PERSON, PLEASE!).
ABOUT THE TOUR SERIES: “The Flâneur & The City†is an ongoing attempt to explore some of the more important issues revealed by the constantly changing heart of the metropolis. The core notion of the series is of culture and history as commodities that are packaged and sold to a target demographic; meanwhile, itâ€