LAVA Broadway on My Mind walking tour #6 February 23rd 2014

Richard Schave

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Join us as we restart the post-Salon walking tour series with the new year. February will bring John Parkinson back into focus as we take a stroll down “Parkinson Alley,” that stretch of West 5th Street stretching from Spring through Broadway and Hill which is thick with examples of this iconic Los Angeles architect’s work. And who better to help us parse the landscape than Parkinson’s advocate, Stephen Gee, whose book, Iconic Vision: John Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles is the definitive survey of this seminal Los Angeles designer and builder? In addition to Stephen, the tour will be hosted by, Richard Schave.

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After his undergraduate studies in art history at UC Santa Cruz, Richard Schave set out to explore the American interior as an itinerent brick mason. His return to his native Los Angeles coincided with a renewed acquaintance with Kim Cooper, a once-detested academic colleague who would become his bride. Together, fusing scholarly research with new digital tools, they launched the 1947project time travel blog, along with In SRO Land, and On Bunker Hill, as well as the Esotouric tour company. With the success of Kim’s True Crime tours, Richard developed a series of Literary and California Culture excursions. Richard is a dedicated preservationist, and the host of the LAVA Sunday Salon and the LAVA Literary Salon series, named Best L.A. Literary Salon by Los Angeles Magazine. He also curates an ongoing series of forensic science programs at Cal State Los Angeles. Richard is also a reader at the Huntington Library.

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