Download or read book Los Angeles s Bunker Hill written by Jim Dawson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the iconic Hollywood neighborhood featured in numerous film noir classics—and the shadowy story of how it disappeared. 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 used its real-life mean streets to lend authenticity to his hardboiled detective stories featuring Philip Marlowe. But the biggest crime of all 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 sheds new light on Los Angeles history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.

Download or read book Dark Side of Bunker Hill written by John Patrick Davey and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deathof an old lady in Cambridge sets off a pattern of deadly behavior leading to the murder of a retired Judge on Boston's Bunker Hill and the mysterious death of a disbarred attorney. An illegal plan to take over a multi million dollar insurance trust falls apart when the planners allow blackmail and greed to develop into murder. The plot from the beginning, is peopled by characters intent on cheating each other forgetting that main prize is the trust's millions managed by a trio of old men. In turn they stun the conspirators by pulling a clever scheme of `bait and switch' surpassing the ingenuity of their antagonists. The locus is Boston and it's Homicide Unit which leads the reader through the old city's `Freedom Trail' after the killers.

Download or read book Bunker Hill in the Rearview Mirror written by Christina Rice and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its history, the area of Downtown Los Angeles known as Bunker Hill has been viewed in many different ways; inaccessible, upscale, run-down, blighted, erased, renewed. These perceptions over the decades have always been open to interpretation and either agreed with or challenged. An area that has been subject to more change than any other place in the city, it has arguably invoked more passion and reverence than any other Los Angeles neighborhood, while inspiring equal amounts of disdain. Bunker Hill in the Rear-View Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood, an exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library on display from April 2015 - April 2016, uses photographs, news articles, recollections and unique ephemera from LAPL Special Collections to illustrate the complex story of Bunker Hill, from its heyday in the 1880's to its redevelopment in the 1960's and 70's. Curated by librarians Christina Rice, Photo Collection, and Emma Roberts, Art & Music/Rare Books, the exhibit is enhanced by this companion catalog with contributing essays by Adrian Scott Fine, Nathan Marsak, Merry Ovnick, Meredith Drake Reitan, and Donald R. Spivack.

Download or read book The Coveted Westside written by Jennifer Mandel and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous inhabitants and descendants of earlier Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Coveted Westside deals with the settlement and development of Los Angeles in the context of its multiracial, multiethnic population, especially African Americans. Mandel exposes the enduring struggle between Whites determined to establish their hegemony and create residential heterogeneity in the growing city, and people of color equally determined to obtain full access to the city and the opportunities, including residential, that it offered. Not only does this book document the Black homeowners’ fight against housing discrimination, it shares personal accounts of Blacks’ efforts to settle in the highly desirable Westside of Los Angeles. Mandel explores the White-derived social and legal mechanisms that created this segregated city and the African American-led movement that challenged efforts to block access to fair housing.

Download or read book Bunker Noir written by Nathan Marsak and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of historic crimes and strange occurrences in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles

Download or read book Bunker Hill Los Angeles written by Nathan Marsak and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir', historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district's inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its present day. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill - time after historic time. Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak's analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment.

Download or read book Zero G written by Alton L. Gansky and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised to make history, SpaceVentures, Inc., hovers on the brink of launching the first commercial space flight. And Benjamin 'Tuck' Tucker's skill and reputation have thrust the new company into the forefront in this powerful new space race. A veteran astronaut and national hero, Tuck accepts the coveted honor---and the risk---of piloting the Legacy on her maiden space voyage. The danger is far greater than just the perceived risks. The real threat, a plot far deadlier than anyone could have imagined, is exposed as Legacy reaches the suborbital regions of space. Suspended seventy miles above Earth, Tuck must use his skill and his faith---faith in a God he has found it hard to trust since a deadly tragedy in space over a year before---as he fights an unknown enemy who will not hesitate to kill again.

Download or read book City of Dreams written by Jerald Podair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, City of Dreams tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped create modern Los Angeles. In a vivid narrative, Jerald Podair tells how the city was convulsed over whether, where, and how to build the stadium. Eventually, it was built on publicly owned land from which the city had uprooted a Mexican American community, raising questions about the relationship between private profit and “public purpose.” Indeed, the battle over Dodger Stadium crystallized issues with profound implications for all American cities. Filled with colorful stories, City of Dreams will fascinate anyone who is interested in the history of the Dodgers, baseball, Los Angeles, and the modern American city.

Download or read book One written by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr. and published by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One is the sequel to True, a star-crossed romance, set in California, in Britain, and on the Continent -- mainly France -- in 1985-86, whose theme is self-discovery.

Download or read book A Divine Comedy written by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr. and published by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Divine Comedy is a compilation of the author’s novels True and its sequel One. This book is also available for purchase by Kindle device and app users in the Kindle Store on Amazon.com.

Download or read book The Full Monte written by Paul Dishman PhD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. State Departments prestigious Fulbright Scholar Program places American professors in other countries for an extended period to teach and experience other cultures. Never has anyone enjoyed it more or provided such an entertaining insight into the program. Paul Dishman provides a revealing view into Montenegro, the tiny former Communist country struggling to join the world stage. The experience turns into a personal journey as he travels to the land of his grandfather and discovers his own surprising heritage. It is part travelogue, part history, part heartwarming personal journey, and all delightfully droll.

Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Nagle s Mercy written by Adam Kargman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his senior year in college, star athlete Mitch Prudene has a perfect grade-point average, a full scholarship to law school, a beautiful girlfriend and a secret that will doom everything if anyone finds out about it. Unfortunately, Mitchs worst fears are realized when the mysterious Ace Nagle shows up. Like a card cheat who has the deck stacked, Nagle not only knows Mitchs secret, but seems to know everything else about him, tooall of his weaknesses and exactly how to manipulate him. Threatening to go to the police with the information he has, Nagle blackmails Mitchonly instead of money, he demands that Mitch perform a series of illegal favors. So begins a sinister cycle of extortion where each crime Mitch commits for Nagle becomes new ammunition for Nagle to use against Mitch and the only way out is for Mitch to find out who Nagle really is and what hes after. In the spirit of such thrillers as Cape Fear and Fatal Attraction, Nagles Mercy is a page-turning rollercoaster ride of white-knuckle suspense.

Download or read book Mystery of the Man in the Mirror written by Dennis Sanchez and published by Dennis Sanchez. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious man, trapped in a mirror of his private detective office, recruit a boy, 13, and his sister, 10, to travel back in time to the year 1939 and clear him of a crime he did not commit. To do this, they masquerade as adult detectives and roam Los Angeles, questing gangsters, and their molls as they seek to find the true murderer. Jake and his younger sister, Darlene, while temporarily staying in a downtown residence in Los Angeles, come across a skeleton key to a door that strangely no one else in the building can see. Printed on the frosted glass of the door is the name, Archer Wolfe, Private Detective. As they enter, they find two rooms furnished with strange furniture dating back to the 1930s. Exploring further, they discover the ghost of Archer Wolfe trapped in a mirror on the wall. Convicted and executed for a murder he did not commit, the detective has one request: Venture through 1930s Los Angeles as private detectives and find the real murderer exonerate Archer Wolfe of the crime. However, they must accomplish this within a short amount of time because the ghost of the detective and his world of the 1930s will soon vanish. Mystery of the Man in the Mirror fits as a children's book, a young adult fiction book, and falls into the mystery adult noir genre as well.

Download or read book The New York Mirror written by George Pope Morris and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Broken Identity written by Ashley Williams and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drake Pearson, a narrow-minded 18-year-old barely enduring Missouri’s heat, is tired of feeling empty. Living conditions are about as cozy as a cardboard box, on account of his alcoholic father who can find nothing better to do than argue relentlessly with him. When Drake thinks he can’t take another blow, he is reminded daily of his mom who vanished twelve years ago. And now there’s a dead body. After a terrible accident turns into a protected secret, a twisted string of events brings Drake miles away from home to an elderly man’s front door. Every promising opportunity also brings new doubts and temptations to run away—this time for good. When the secret he has kept locked away threatens to reveal itself, Drake knows he must shield it with his very life, even if the love he has been shown undeservingly is about to be destroyed.

Download or read book Beyond the Crossroads written by B.K. Lynch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a midsummer night in the early hours of dusk, five lives are merged by a fateful hit-and-run. Lives are lost, and other lives are changed forever. Genevieve Nickles, a young vibrant woman with a promising future as a freelance writer, awakes to find herself in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire hospital. She has no recollection of how or why she is there. All she knows is that she has a long road to recovery in front of her. With her thoughts focused around her family and fiancé Todd, the road to recovery seems manageable at times. Weak, she drifts in and out of consciousness, falling deep into thought to escape the pain of recovery. But her quiet slumber is disturbed by the visions of a man hunting a frightened young woman. Desperately, this man wants his prey, and he wants to kill. He chases his victim down a road that leads to many crossroads; the closer he gets, the stronger the man senses Genevieve’s presence. His attention now shifts from his victim to Genevieve. Laid up in a hospital bed, Genevieve Nickles fights to regain her memory and strength so she can fight the demon that invades her dreams. It may be just a vision, but something is beckoning her to help this frightened woman at the same time.++