Los Angeles's Bunker Hill
Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!
Nonfiction, Travel, Pictorials, Art & Architecture, Photography, History
| Author: | Jim Dawson | ISBN: | 9781614235781 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. | Publication: | June 22, 2012 |
| Imprint: | The History Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jim Dawson |
| ISBN: | 9781614235781 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Publication: | June 22, 2012 |
| Imprint: | The History Press |
| Language: | English |
When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life �mean streets� that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer�s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the city�s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.
When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life �mean streets� that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer�s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the city�s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.
