When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers; they found Bunker Hill; a neighborhood of fading Victorians; flophouses; tough bars; stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life �mean streets� that his hardboiled detective; Philip Marlowe; prowled in the writer�s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes; run by the city�s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos; writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great writing; original notionsBy Lance HardieBook arrived as promised. Great writing; original notions. I would buy again from this seller and by this writer.7 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Gross writes like a 21st century Walter Benjamin.By Corey FischerAnyone interested in in theatre; puppets; human consciousness or life in all its strangeness will find a feast in this book. Gross writes like a 21st century Walter Benjamin.
