{"id":1233,"date":"2014-03-24T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"raymond-chandlers-los-angeles-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/03\/24\/raymond-chandlers-los-angeles-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.<\/p>\n

This was Raymond Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bow.<\/p>\n

Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: The Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Larry Edmunds Bookshop, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gates, and much, much more, including a Chandler-themed gelato stop at East Hollywood cult favorite Scoops.<\/p>\n

Through published work, private correspondence, screenplays and film adaptations, we trace Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search for meaning and his anti-hero Philip Marlowe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle to not be pigeonholed or give anything less than all he has, which lead them both down the rabbit hole of isolation, depression, and drink.<\/p>\n

Tour passengers will have the opportunity to purchase an autographed copy<\/a> of co-host Kim Cooper’s mystery novel The Kept Girl<\/em>, inspired by this tour and starring the young Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe on the trail of a cult of murderous angel worshippers.<\/p>\n

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Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death. This was Raymond Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bow. Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11,14,22,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}