Los Angeles's Bunker Hill

Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!

Nonfiction, Travel, Pictorials, Art & Architecture, Photography, History
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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.
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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.

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