The Bunker Hill Book Trilogy
There are three books about Bunker Hill out there, and you’re going to want to get all of them! The Big Book, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles published by Angel City Press, is hardback, 176 pages, and covers the entire story of Bunker Hill, soup to nuts: It is available at all fine bookstores, and directly…
Saying Goodbye: End of the Dirt Patch
Fifteen years ago, I wrote a piece for the OnBunkerHill blog about a wonderful pile of dirt, specifically, an earthen contour as it rose above a parking lot at the northwest corner of Second and Hill Streets: Alas, that particular plot of land and its pile of dirt is not long for this world. It’s…
Hollywood Soapbox and I Talk “Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill”
John Soltes, journalist extraordinaire, spoke with me recently about Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill. He published said interview on his site Hollywood Soapbox… …an interview you may read by clicking this link: Marsak & Soltes Talk Marsak’s Guide Go read it. I’ll wait. So now, having read the interview, you’re doubtlessly intrigued by the provocative…
CHS Posts New (Old) Photos
The Los Angeles City Historical Society was recently gifted a nifty collection of vintage images, which they Tuesday last, posted online: And when that sort of thing happens, if there’s Bunker Hill involved, I’ll comment upon it, naturally (e.g. when this trove popped up on Google Arts and Culture). Let’s get into into it. Part I: The…
Leo Politi! Bunker Hill!
There’s a wonderful new exhibit up at the Central Library—a vaster collection of Leo Politi’s original paintings from his celebrated book Bunker Hill, Los Angeles: Reminiscences of Bygone Days (Desert-Southwest Publishers, 1964). Since you’re on this site, you’re likely familiar with Politi’s work, up to and including his Bunker Hill book. Should you not have a copy,…
The Bunker Hill Books: a Holiday Sale-abration!
There is, as you are doubtlessly aware, a Marsak-penned Bunker Hill trilogy— And while I am certain you own the best-selling, award-winning Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (makes a great Christmas gift! buy yours here!), it may just be you have neither Bunker Noir! nor Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill—or you do, but your architecture-loving cousin…
Talking Bunker Hill Archives at the Rare Book Fair!
This Sunday! Come on out to the Rare Books LA Antiquarian Book Fair in (the unbelievably gorgeous and important) Union Station! I’ll be lecturing about the Bunker Hill book and the work that went into its production, in On Archives and Archivists: Building Bunker Hill, my overly-illustrated, terribly-talky talk about spelunking libraries, chasing private collections,…
Cats: On Architecture
Each of Marsak Manor’s five felines is possessed of markedly distinct opinions and temperament. So, the kitties having perused our recently-published Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill, I asked them to discuss their favorite building. Read what they have to say, below: PUMPKIN PATCH “The Subway Terminal is my favorite, as its design references the glories of…
Cooper Do-nuts FINALE
I’ve written about Cooper Do-nuts for two years, but has anyone listened? Of course not, as simple truths are both unacceptable and unwelcome to fact-denying government ideologues and their gullible subjects. Oh well! See the previous posts: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. Congratulations to Tony Hoover of DLANC and the Evans family for getting…
Fante & Me on Arte TV
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…
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