

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Downtown Los Angeles is for Book Lovers walking tour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 10:30 am (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Esotouric on a tour revealing the bookish cultural history in the heart of the city, packed with tales of colorful Los Angeles writers, readers and booksellers.

Starting from Grand Central Market, where the young John Fante hustled cheap fruit from the Japanese vendors to fuel his dreams of becoming Bunker Hill’s great novelist, we’ll blaze a time traveler’s trail along Hill, Grand and Broadway, visiting Central Library with its street corner monuments to Fante and Ray Bradbury, to former locations of legendary book sellers Jake Zeitlin, Caravan, Dawson’s and Fowler’s, explore Pershing Square’s rich literary history and symbolism, and so much more. Featured players include Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, John Rechy, Aldous Huxley, Carey McWilliams and legendary early city librarians Mary Foy and Tessa Kelso. And because it’s an Esotouric tour, you’ll enjoy lesser known, offbeat tales about L.A. books and the oddballs who love them.

This walking tour is illustrated with rare photos you can view on your smartphone.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/downtown-los-angeles-is-for-book-lovers-walking-tour/200029637514655
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 37

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://esotouric.com/event/book-lovers-dtla-2026/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=los+angeles-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Los Angeles
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Grand Central Market
- **lat**: 34.050799914378
- **long**: -118.24893683195
- **full address**: Grand Central Market, Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles (https://allevents.in/org/esotourics-secret-los-angeles/1519929)

## Event gallery

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  - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Downtown+Los+Angeles+is+for+Book+Lovers+walking+tour&date=25+Apr

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 10:30 am (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Grand Central Market, Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Downtown Los Angeles is for Book Lovers walking tour ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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