LAVA Broadway on My Mind walking tour #9: R.B. Young (May 2014)

Kim Cooper

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In July 2013, LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association launched a series of free walking tours along Broadway meant to raise consciousness about the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the pending implementation of Strategy One, Phase One of the City of Los Angeles’ Broadway Streetscape Master Plan. Each walking tour follows and departs from the free LAVA Sunday Salon.

This month’s tour, hosted by Richard Schave (Esotouric/LAVA) and Nathan Marsak with Kim Cooper (with ghostly tales from Scramarama featuring Deniz Tek and Brute Force), Michelle Gerdes and a special guest appearance by Canned Hamm, focused on the architecture of Robert Brown Young.

Read about this tour here, and watch video of the walk here.

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

LAVA Broadway on My Mind walking tour #9: R.B. Young (May 2014)

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