Title supplied by cataloger. Located at 5124 De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood, this is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Photographer's caption reads, "I visited the apartment where Charles Bukowski lived in the 1960s - the front unit in a shabby stucco one-story with a beat-up couch on the porch and steel bars on the windows. It was kind of a pilgrimage. Herman grew up in Bukowski's place, seven years, most of his life. I told him that a famous writer had lived there. "He wrote a shelf of books this long," I said. "Stories. Poems. People all over the world read them." This was news to Herman. He seemed unimpressed. "It's alright," he said, "but everything's all busted up and rusty and broken.""
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Bukowski, Charles--Homes and haunts Apartments--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Architecture, Domestic--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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