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This tour focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We’ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars Musso & Frank, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave and John Dullaghan, director of the acclaimed documentary Bukowski: Born Into This
This tour debuted in August 2007 as part of a five-day gala Bukowski’s Birthday celebration, commencing on 8/15, which would have been his 87th birthday.
MORE INFO: "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA" spans Bukowski's personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, East Hollywood liquor stores to Musso & Frank, Hollywood's oldest restaurant. At Musso's, passengers have a chance to toast the bard with an adult beverage served by one of Bukowski's favorite bartenders. The tour's new co-host John Dullaghan will share stories and answer questions about the ten-year making of his Bukowski documentary and of Hollywood's Bukowski-centric Baroque Bookstore and its late, cantankerous owner Red Stodolsky.
Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work. In one of his finest poems, he described this as a bluebird he kept caged, and that bluebird is been represented in the Bukbird, Esotouric's new logo by cartoonist Tony Millionaire, a pale blue version of his beloved alcoholic crow character.
German born, Bukowski spent most of his life in LA, working for the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the Free Press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical "Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were important to him. "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man" is a guided bus tour to the writer's homes, favorite bars and bookshops, plus locations from "Barfly." Passengers will enjoy a cocktail mixed by one of Buk's favorite Musso and Frank bartenders, tour a downtown postal sorting facility like the one he writes about in "Post Office," visit Skid Row and discuss the area's history and see the Central Library reading room where Buk discovered his "God," L.A. novelist John Fante.
This tour focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We’ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars Musso & Frank, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave and John Dullaghan, director of the acclaimed documentary Bukowski: Born Into This
This tour debuted in August 2007 as part of a five-day gala Bukowski’s Birthday celebration, commencing on 8/15, which would have been his 87th birthday.
MORE INFO: "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA" spans Bukowski's personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, East Hollywood liquor stores to Musso & Frank, Hollywood's oldest restaurant. At Musso's, passengers have a chance to toast the bard with an adult beverage served by one of Bukowski's favorite bartenders. The tour's new co-host John Dullaghan will share stories and answer questions about the ten-year making of his Bukowski documentary and of Hollywood's Bukowski-centric Baroque Bookstore and its late, cantankerous owner Red Stodolsky.
Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work. In one of his finest poems, he described this as a bluebird he kept caged, and that bluebird is been represented in the Bukbird, Esotouric's new logo by cartoonist Tony Millionaire, a pale blue version of his beloved alcoholic crow character.
German born, Bukowski spent most of his life in LA, working for the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the Free Press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical "Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were important to him. "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man" is a guided bus tour to the writer's homes, favorite bars and bookshops, plus locations from "Barfly." Passengers will enjoy a cocktail mixed by one of Buk's favorite Musso and Frank bartenders, tour a downtown postal sorting facility like the one he writes about in "Post Office," visit Skid Row and discuss the area's history and see the Central Library reading room where Buk discovered his "God," L.A. novelist John Fante.
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