Let’s Ask ChatGPT Some Stuff!
The other day I did a post about Artificial Intelligence. In the comments on the accompanying Instagram post, CC DeVere of Frenchtown Confidential hipped me to this commiserating post of hers, wherein she’d asked ChatGPT about French influence in early Los Angeles, and was rewarded with a bunch of nonsense. Apparently that sort of thing…
Incredible Oviatt Talk!
James Oviatt lived on Bunker Hill, before he became the greatest haberdasher in Los Angeles history, and before he built Los Angeles’s greatest building. I talk about him at length here, but, in a nutshell: Even if James Oviatt wasn’t a Bunker Hill boy, you’d still really, really want to go to the Oviatt Building…
Bunker Hill, AI, and the End of Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to make us smarter — which we know to be true, because when I asked an AI chatbot if that were true, it said yes. I’m glad that in the future we’ll all have 200 IQ and shall live in peace and harmony, our giant AI-augmented intellects having solved all…
Bunker Hill in “Official Detective”
The other day my buddy Bryan Moore (whose aunt you’ll remember from this post) sent me a link to a 1957 episode of Official Detective called “Pork Pie Hat.” Hey, he said, sure looks like Bunker Hill to me, but I’ll leave that up to your expert eye. Holy-freakin’ heck. It isn’t every day something…
No, Everyone, there was No Los Angeles Streetcar Conspiracy
Greetings! Though this is a Bunker Hill blog, I will on occasion cover tangentially-related subjects (like Chavez Ravine or Cooper Donuts, or even Disneyland), especially if there’s debunking to be done. Today’s debunking, though, is altogether unrelated to Bunker Hill. After being told for the millionth time that Roger Rabbit is a documentary, I’m finally…
Incredible New Court Flight Image!
Remember how I recently had the good fortune to uncover some previously unseen Astoria images? Well, something similarly rare and unknown just bubbled to the surface again, and it’s a doozy. An image was posted by famed Angels Flight operator Will on his saturdaystationagent Instagram account; you might remember my shout out to him and…
Disneyland Gets the Chavez Ravine Treatment
Ok, I know this is really off the topic of Bunker Hill, and I am well aware there is zero reason to get worked up about something posted in the reeking cesspool that is TikTok. But I write about Chavez Ravine because of Bunker Hill, so now I’ll write about Disneyland because of Chavez Ravine,…
Bunker Noir October Sale!
There’s two weeks till Hallowe’en and it’s time to put your Hallowe’en gift-giving into overdrive! (Yes, I know, you’re mostly buying things for yourself, but who better deserves them?) Might I suggest a copy of Bunker Noir! It’s a true crime compendium replete with murder, suicide, bootleggers, serial killers, bar brawls, deadly fires, lizard men,…
New Astoria Images Emerge!
I’ve always had a fondness for the Astoria: The Astoria was, of course, featured prominently in one of my first posts for OnBunkerHill, about Robert Nixon and his fiendish visit there. The hotel was thereafter a key part in this expanded retelling from 2022, and naturally it showed up in both BHLA and Bunker Noir!…
Getting Hitched at the Courthouse, 1968
Last post involved people I couldn’t identify, so, here I am doing that again. This time we’ve got a couple Kodachrome slides from August 1968, of a young couple outside the Courthouse (as seen on p. 17 of Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill) with a novelty sign: Naturally, my impulse was to go and shoot…
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