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Everyone loves the boom-era mansions of Bunker Hill, which we know primarily through images shot as they neared their demolition, photographed in the 1950s and 60s by the likes of Hylen, Reagh, Conner, et al. More rare and important are those images captured of a house in its early years. Luckily, many of the mostContinue reading “The Weller House”

Happy Washington’s Birthday! Washington’s birthday is, of course, on the 22nd, but has, since 1971, been celebrated the third Monday of February. (Which is today, so happy Washington’s Birthday, and before you say “don’t you mean Presidents’ Day?” be advised I do not, because there is no such thing as Presidents’ Day.) What does GeorgeContinue reading “George Washington on Bunker Hill”

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all movies with Bunker Hill in them are better than others, that they are endowed by their creators to have lots of Bunker Hill in them, that among these include Angels Flight, Bunker Hill Avenue, and some pretty rare stuff once in a while. ************ Let’s lookContinue reading “The Shadow on the Window”

My buddy Bryan is a cool guy. He sculpts busts of Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker and H. P. Lovecraft, and then makes Lovecraftian films. Plus he has a giant African sulcata. Oh, and drives a 1961 hearse (the mark of greatness indeed! …or so says the man who drove one himself). Should youContinue reading “Sally Brown at the Avalon Apartments”

Part I is here. Part II is here. As a teen in the 1980s I sat through no small quantity of “youth culture” pictures. Most were terrible. Some were great (Repo Man); some were so-bad-they’re-great (Valley Girl); and some were objectively terrible, and yet absolute genius (Surf II). Some were a cut above, like 1984’sContinue reading “Bunker Hill of the Comet: Bunkerpocalypse, Pt. III”

Part I, detailing the evacuated, Venusian-menaced Bunker Hill of 1954 in Target Earth, is here. People who own Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill have sometimes asked how did you get all those shots of Bunker Hill devoid of any sign of life? In my years of architectural photography I have worked to shoot structures withContinue reading “Bunkerpocalypse! Part II”

One of the benefits of loving Bunker Hill is seeing the area depicted on screen. Bunker Hill appeared in early comedies, and later, in television programs, but the Hill is best known for its supporting role in all those moody postwar films noir. Bunker Hill-in-the-movies is of course covered in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, andContinue reading “Bunker Hill in the Apocalypse”

Three years ago today, I published this post, Robert Frank Goes to Bunker Hill. The most recent issue of photography ‘zine Dog Food is Robert Frank-themed, wonderful in general, but includes a particularly nifty spread called “Anatomy of a Shooting on Bunker Hill” excerpted from my post: If you’re a completist and collect all thingsContinue reading “Robert Frank/Bunker Hill in Dog Food”

After Bunker Hill’s first inhabitants migrated west, the Hill became an enclave of bohemian writers, visionary artists, and vanguard spiritualists. Right? It was, after all, home to the likes of Anna May Wong, Leo Politi, and John Fante; the book Bunker Hill, Los Angeles has a whole section dedicated to its more famed denizens, includingContinue reading “The Bunker Hill Fascist”

October is upon us—the time to celebrate all things dark, and weird, and similarly wonderful. The perfect reading material for such times involves, of course, tales of murder and mayhem. And…Bunker Hill. Gosh, if only there was a publication about the twisted tales of terror from atop Bunker Hill… Huzzah! Bunker Noir! Bunker Noir! isContinue reading “Bunker Noir! On Sale!”