Hollywood History Tour
This is Los Angeles told in order, moving the way the city actually grew east to west. We start at El Pueblo, where forty-four settlers founded Los Angeles.
Union Station, Bradbury Building, Angeleno Heights. From there, we drive to Miracle Mile and the tar pits, then to Venice, the boardwalk, the Santa Monica Pier, and into Malibu, looking back down the entire coastline. I've spent years producing film and television across this city, and the stories you get are from filming these streets.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your Hotel or where the guest would like to be picked up
- At your Hotel or where the guest would like to be picked up
Hotel Pick up
Olvera Street / El Pueblo
Pueblo 1781. Forty-four settlers would build this pueblo and the original plaza. Where the city begins. In the 1910s, Charlie Chaplin would use this plaza for his ealry films
Downtown Los Angeles Tour
We will take a driving tour of Chinatown, Union Station, and other Los Angeles landmarks. We will stop at each landmark for quick photos and historical context.
Angeleno Heights / Carroll Avenue
Angelino Heights was the city's first true suburb, subdivided in 1886
Lots of Shows and movies were filmed here, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller," "Charmed," and "Fast and Furious," to name a few.
"Hollywood: The Corner Where It Started"
This will be a driving tour, with several popular stops.
We will visit the corner where the film industry started.
Check out views of the Hollywood sign
Drive by the Walk of Fame
Culver City "Heart of the Screenland"
Lunch with 20 restaurants to choose from:
Culver City produced an absurd share of American film history.
We'll walk through Downtown Culver / Town Plaza — a good coffee stop- then check out the city's Skyline View from the Baldwin Hills mountain.
Venice Canals + Abbot Kinney
Kinney's 1905 "Venice of America" — he dug canals and imported gondoliers. The oil boom filled most of them in. Walk the surviving canals.
Santa Monica Pier / Palisades Park
Palisades Park 1909 pier, the western terminus of Route 66. The bluff view sets up the last leg.
End of Tour
We reach the end of our LA historical tour.
Ending Point
7:00 PM Hotel
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide
Driver
Transportation TESLA
Hotel Pick-up
Gasoline
One LA Souvenir
Parking
Entrance tickets
Food and beverage / Lunch
Tour Important Information
This tour may involve walking wear comforable shoes and sunblock.
The weather fluctiaes in los angeles so please wear comforable cothing for summer and jacket for everning.
Available Monday through Sundays
Important message from the supplier
available all times
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
About Tour Guide Juancarlo L.
My name is Juancarlo, and I'd like to be considered as a tour guide in Los Angeles. For the past twenty years, I've worked as a producer of commercials, music videos, and television. That combination of being a lifelong Angeleno and having spent my entire career in the film industry. That is what I'd bring to every tour. Most film-location tours are led by people who admire the industry from the outside. I've worked in it. I've stood on these sets, coordinated shoots at these locations, and watched the city get transformed, frame by frame, into the places audiences love on screen.
When I point to a street corner, a studio gate, or a stretch of coastline, I'm not reciting a fact I read; I'm describing what it was like to actually film there. The tour I want to create is a film-locations experience drawn from movies, TV shows, music videos, and commercials the real spots where iconic moments were shot, and the stories behind them. Woven through it, I'll tell the larger story of Hollywood: from the earliest studios that put Los Angeles on the map to the global industry it is today. It's a historical learning experience; visitors leave understanding not just where things were filmed, but why L.A. became the center of it all. While still hitting the popular landmarks along the way. I know the history of Los Angeles and California well, and I love sharing it. I'm also bilingual in English and Spanish, so I can welcome visitors from around the world.
$525/ per group
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