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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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"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."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.
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Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- In motion pictures.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- In motion pictures.
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Motion picture locations -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
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Film noir -- History and criticism.
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Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- In literature.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- In literature.
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Pulp literature, American -- History and criticism.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781614235781 (epub) |
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9781609495466 (print) |
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9781614235781 |
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