Discover the Soul of Los Angeles with Olvera Street™ Travel Guide

LOS ANGELES - June 16, 2015 - PRLog -- Welcome to Los Angeles, America's second largest city and home to 3.8 million people. But L.A. didn't start out that way. Olvera Street: Discover the Soul of Los Angeles travel guide leads you past today’s glitzy bars and eateries, the big sports centers and high-rises to trace the city's roots. Travel back more than two centuries to when forty-four settlers walked from Mexico to start a new life near what would become today's downtown Los Angeles.

La Frontera Publishing presents Olvera Street: Discover the Soul of Los Angeles (ISBN 978-0-9857551-8-8), the first in a new series of personal walking tour travel guides from Southern California newsman, editor and author Mike Harris, focusing on the great cities of the American West and the historic treasures and fascinating stories visitors can still discover.

While decades of neglect and the developer’s bulldozer have claimed many of the original buildings, at Olvera Street, part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, you can still see and touch the city’s beginnings. Join Mike as he guides you along Olvera Street with its unique museums, artwork, multigeneration Mexican family shops, and restaurants.

Starting at the plaza’s kiosk, located just across the street from historic Union Station, journey with Mike on an easy walking tour detailing the struggles and triumphs of creating an international city. Learn how each new culture that came to Los Angeles, from Native American, Spanish, and Mexican to African American, Chinese, French, and Italian, impacted its destiny.

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Olvera Street: Discover the Soul of Los Angeles

$19.95 / spiral bound book

ISBN 978-0-9857551-8-8

Published by La Frontera Publishing

Cheyenne, Wyoming

About La Frontera Publishing

Cheyenne, Wyoming-based La Frontera Publishing publishes historic fiction and non-fiction books about the American West. Its Website can be found at www.lafronterapublishing.com. The company also publishes OldWestNewWest.Com Travel & History Magazine. For more information, call (307) 778-4752. Email: info@lafronterapublishing.com.