upcoming tours

• ANGELINO HEIGHTS TIME TRAVEL WALK Saturday, December 7th
• KNOW YOUR DOWNTOWN: TUNNELS TO THE DUTCH CHOCOLATE SHOP Sunday, December 8th
• RAYMOND CHANDLER’S NOIR DOWNTOWN Saturday, December 14th

• 1947project
• On Bunker Hill
• InSRO Land

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General Resources Charles Bukowski

• Permanent URL for resources here
• Documentary - Bukowski: Born Into This
• Grindhouse Blue-ray DVD Barfly (Voice Over)

• Become a Huntington Reader
• Huntington Collection Hank
• Charles Bukowski Papers Huntington Library

• Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women (& me)
• Joan Jobe Smith Book Page Silver Birch Press
• Linda King Loving & Hating Charles Bukowski

location specific resources

• Bamboo Inn 2005 W 7th St
• THE HEATHER APARTMENTS: A LONG GOODBYE
• Engine Company No. 11 1819 W. Seventh Street
• Fire Station (For Jane With Love)

• THE HOTEL CALIFORNIAN NEON IS ALIVE, ALIVE!
• The Strange Fortune of the Hotel Californian
• Hotel Californian Neon dedication 2016

1725 W 6th St. Sam Reisbord - 1958

• Sam Reisbord Archives UC Santa Barbara

• The Burlington
• 420 S Burlington Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90057
• Pillow & Coffee & Charles Bukowski & Rent Arbitrage
• Los Angeles landlord sues Knock LA reporter for exposing illegal Airbnb listings in rent controlled buildings

• Grier Musser Museum
• MORRIS KIGHT RESIDENCE 1822 West 4th Street
• Save Morris Kight’s 4th Street
• HCM #157: Morris Kight House

• Superet Light Church 2516 W 3rd St
• Superet was founded by Polish Countess Josephine C. Trust in 1925
• About Josephine C. Trust

• Channeling the Symbols of God’s Radiation: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Functions of Sacred Materials in Superetism - MFA Degenhart Maria Grey Brown 2019 UCLA
• Superet Light Church Historic Cultural Monument 555

THE OZMUN APTS - 341 S Alavarado

• Ozmun Court South Pasadena
• Named for Gertrude Ozmun (c. 1880-1958), a real estate speculator who in 1914 sold plots on Ozmun Court, then built what would become the Fair Oaks Pharmacy, a South Pasadena landmark.

• Book Review: A Catalog of Ordinary Madness by Abel Debritto

Almost fifteen years in the making, Abel Debritto brings us the first comprehensive Charles Bukowski bio-bibliography. This massive volume (854 pages) was released in July of 2024.

• A CATALOG OF ORDINARY MADNESS CHATWIN BOOKS

JOHN FANTE & CHARLES BUKOWSKI

• John Fante made Charles Bukowski a writer and Charles Bukowski made John Fante famous

BUNKER HILL & NATHAN MARSAK

• Glenview on Bunker Hill (Hank Residence)
• Nathan Marsak’s blog on Bunker Hill

• Mother Pluckers 2511 W 3rd St
• Drone Footage 280 S Coronado & 503 S Union Dr
• 268 S Coronado Ave - A Radio with guts
• William Reagh – Los Angeles Photography Center 2332 West Fourth Street

Rent Arbitrage & Charles Bukowski

• 5124 Delongpre & Pillow & Coffee
• Erica Beers and Rebecca Slivka & The Secret Sauce of Pillow & Coffee
• Esotouric 5124 Delongpre preservation page

• Bukowski Court & Ben Pleasants
• Ben Pleasants VISCERAL BUKOWSKI: Inside the Sniper Landscape of L.A. Writers

• Jacques Lacarrière-The Gnostics (1973)

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