Last summer a couple of my Strasbourgeois pals from Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne were in town to shoot a short feature about the ever-important John Fante.
Fante, of course, famously lived on the Hill, where Third Street ended at Bunker Hill Avenue, in an apartment house named the Alta Vista (which Fante renamed the Alta Loma in Ask the Dust—read all about it in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles).
So they call me up and say “get yourself to Angels Flight, we need you to you to talk about this.”
Ergo:
Arte filmed some other interesting folks for the piece—including Stephen Cooper, who penned the definitive biography of Fante—and added cool vintage images, then overdubbed the whole thing into French, so who knows what I’m going on about (though I like to think that pleases the ghosts of my ancestors in Coutances).
Trust you will enjoy the video! And if you dig my mini-tour around Angels Flight, don’t forget we’ll be riding her this Saturday, and you can join in!
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles 
Fante is one of my heroes. I own and cherish one of his pool cues and one of his pipes. Both were gifts to me from his late son Dan, also a wonderful writer.
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