Book Details
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Los Angeles's Bunker HIll |
| Author: |
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Jim Dawson |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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03.26.13 |
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Notes History
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| 03.26.13 | A nice little book catalogging and kind of obsessing about this lost downtown neighborhood of LA that lives on in film noir. It sounds like it was quite a cool place with a bunch of 19th century Victorian mansions stuck onto a steep hill and slowly rotting through the years until the city literally erased it in the late 60s and replaced it with modern-day downtown skyscrapers. The first three quarters of the book is narrative examining its appearance in pulp novels and film noir then the last bit is a listing of movies that shot there. I have to say this read pretty well, but I really wish it was a TCM documentary so I could watch all these clips that Dawson painstakingly describes. It did get me to load up LA Noire one more time though to drive around in their virtual Bunker Hill to see how close they matched it (reasonably well. The streets are mostly right and some of the buildings are surprisingly exact, but for the most part they just have a few "Victorian Mansion" models that they plop down amongst standard brick buildings at random). Good book. |
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