Greetings fellow Hill fan!
Bunker Hill fascinates us largely because of the way it responded to, and resisted, modernity.
And a large part of modernity, in general, springs from speed. Transport. Modernity’s drive to systematically annihilate space and time, reorganizing human life via acceleration. Stuff like that.
Thus a central part of the story of Bunker Hill—which blossomed largely due to the railroad—is how it reacted to and was morphed by the horse-cart, the streetcar, and the auto. Technological progress both avoided and penetrated the Hill, isolating and integrating it, in unusual ways inconsistent with the development of greater Los Angeles.
Want to learn more, and look at pretty pictures while you do it? Come on out to the Lanterman! I don’t have to tell you that any trip to the Lanterman is a joy (learn more about the Lanterman here) and that it was designed by Arthur Leonard Haley, who concocted a number of Edwardian-era apartment buildings for Bunker Hill (e.g., the Touraine, the Munn, the Mission, the Waldron, the Francis).
Click here:
https://www.lantermanhouse.org/list-of-events/history-of-bunker-hill-and-transportation
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles 