For the 43rd year, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “digs up the dirt” on Hollywood history - including a few scandals - via a living history walking tour of the 127-year-old Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard. Visit the gravesites of early Hollywood stars, movie moguls, and the pioneers who shaped Los Angeles, to hear fascinating tales about their lives (both their accomplishments and misdeeds) from historians and living history performances. Tours will commence every 20 minutes, rain or shine, between 9:00 and 11:00 AM.

For four years, from 1930 through 1934, Hollywood was hard to tame. Many films produced during the Pre-Code era brazenly tackled an array of risque subjects from sexual freedom to lawlessness to racial taboos. Made during the depts of the Great Depression, these movies pushed the bounds of societal and cultural norms as Hollywood studios saw their profits plummeting and were determined to lure audiences into theaters in any way possible. In this presentation, Pre Code Essentials, authors Danny Reid and Kim Luperi explore the fascinating history of the period with spotlights on some of the most provocative and shocking elements and movies of the era.

El Cid has been one of Los Angeles’s legendary flamenco destinations since December 7, 1962, when dancers Margarita Cordova and Juan Talavera and artist Clark Allen transformed the former Cabaret Concert Theatre into a romantic, 16th-century-Spanish-tavern-inspired supper club. But its history dates back to the Jazz Age, when in 1925 it was the bizarrely themed Jail Cafe! Just the type of place that Cocktails in Historic Places® was made for.

Return with us to an era when carefree movie stars frolicked at lavish gin-soaked mansion parties both on and off screen. We're reveling in the days of pre-code Hollywood films pushed the limits of "decency" with everything from illicit love affairs to sordid crimes that mirrored the real-life scandal sheets! The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles presents the "Pre-Code Hollywood Frolic" - an opportunity to cut a rug to Jim Ziegler's Quintet while costumed as the 1930s Hollywood starlet or Matinee Idol you've always known you are! This will definitely be the most scandalous party you'll attend all year.