Bukowski Square

[mjp]

This is kind of funny - Larry Harnisch blogging for the LA Times has taken to calling the area around 7th and Main streets (where Crabby Joe's used to be) "Bukowski Square."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/01/craby-joes-rip.html

 

[Bukfan]

Bukowski Square - That's great. Soon everybody will call the area, Bukowski Square! Next, you'll have a group of people demanding that the name should be officially recognized, with street signs and everything...:D

 

[bernard stachman]

That would be grand. Personally if i were mayor of LA I'd rename Skid Row Bukowski Playground

 

[Father Luke]

How about a Men's room called Buk U ?

Or is that getting off subject?

 

[lmharnisch]

Glad you like the idea. I'm fond of it myself.

 

[Father Luke]

Glad ya' made it Larry.

 

[MULLINAX]

Good luck. Things are starting to happen in LA. Bus tours, landmark status, and now a square.

If Kerouac can have an alley in SF, Buk can have a square, or a street, or a 'playground' in LA.

 

[mjp]

That would be grand. Personally if i were mayor of LA I'd rename Skid Row Bukowski Playground

What is skid row now will be condos - sorry lofts - in five years, so you'd have to move "Bukowski Playground" around every once in a while.

 

[roni]

There will be a street in Andernach named after him. The city has already agreed on it.
Dunno how many years it'll take them to make it true, but it sure will come.

 

[Ponder]

I'm planning to visit Andernach in may. Didn't speak German for ages...
Rauchende colte, Colditz, Derrick...And Rudi Carrell of course.

 

[roni]

oh, yeah - 1970s German TV. So, THAT's where you got your language skills from, eh? Seems they did a good job teaching you.


p.s.:
to help you find his house of birth - according to google-earth it's
50°26'2.03"N / 7°24'4.88"E

that's Aktienstrasse 1 (about a 5 min walk from the station).

 

[roni]

oh, maybe off topic in this thread, but...

a little help to find HIS house of birth:

http://bukowski-gesellschaft.de/div/Buks-house-of-birth_satellite.gif

 

[Ponder]

Yes, German tv has taught me more then taking German classes for 4 years in high school.
I forgot Tatort. The episode with Natasja Kinski (daugher of Klaus) is legendary.
Thanks for the info on Buk's house of birth.

Ok, back to the topic.

 

[MULLINAX]

Hogan's Heroes was also a good pedagogical aid.

 

[number6horse]

I became an expert on Germanic culture thanks to

spaetzel
bavarian pretzels
the word NEIN !
and Michael Schenker guitar solos.

 

[Ponder]

hhhmmm and Kindergarten?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Charles H Bukowski High School

I wonder.

 

[Father Luke]

(koff)

Henry Charles Bukowski

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Henry Charles Bukowski Memorial Love Shack

We still love you, Father Luke- You f**king know it all. I know you are busy right now, vomitting before you go on stage.;)

 

[MULLINAX]

Karl Heinrich Bukowski.

 

[hank solo]

Heinrich Karl Bukowski Jr.

:D

 

[roni]

It's still HANK!
Don't try!

 

[MULLINAX]

Heinrich Karl Bukowski Jr.

:D

D'oh!