This is the definitive tour of Los Angeles. The "Inside Historic Dowtown Los Angeles" tour explores a city virtually unchanged since the glory days of Hollywood.

Tour Highlights:
 

	Go inside the Warner Bros Theatre, Biltmore Hotel and Central Library
	See downtowns historic facades
	See where stars like Judy Garland and Milton Burle began their careers

Overview:

Contained within Downtown's "Historic District" is the "Broadway Historic Theatre District" - the largest historic theatre district in the United States. Your guide will lead you INSIDE some of America's most beautiful old picture palaces including the Palace Theater, which is the oldest Orpheum Theatre in the world - a survivor from the days of vaudeville. You will also see the Million Dollar Theatre - the world's first movie palace built by Sid Grauman, originator of the world famous Chinese Theatre. You will be transported back in time as we visit a European style food hall, opulent hotels, grand public buildings and streetscapes right out of the early 1920's.

Downtown Los Angeles as always been ready for its close up. Because downtown Los Angeles also has the largest contiguous concentration of historic architecture in America it is often used as a "back lot" for turn-of-the-century New York or Chicago. In fact, Los Angeles Center Studios, Downtown's only motion picture studio, uses the streets of Downtown LA as its back lot. Recent blockbuster films such as Dreamgirls are being shot here. When you visit Downtown LA you never know who you might see!

Downtown's historic facades and streetlamps have remained intact since the 1910's when downtown was the center of the entertainment industry and Hollywood was still a dream.

Before Hollywood, Warner Bros. and Fox headquartered their theatre circuits in downtown Los Angeles. Many companies associated with the movies also headquarter in Downtown LA such the Whirlitzer Organ Co. creator of the mighty organs that were a required fixture in every movie house across America before the 'talkies' arrived.

Although they have disappeared from many cities across the United States those grand theatres from the early days of vaudeville still line Broadway in Downtown LA including the Palace Theatre - the oldest surviving Orpheum Theatre in the world. Stars like Judy Garland, Milton Burle, WC Fields and Mae West began their careers "treading the boards" on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles! During its heyday in the 1920's Broadway in LA rivaled New York's Broadway.

Today, a redevelopment plan called "The Broadway Initiative" aims to breathe new life into one of America's most important architectural and historical treasures. See for yourself where it all began on the "Inside Historic Downtown LA" tour.