Visiting L.A. Buk and non-Buk suggestions?

[mjp]

He certainly did live in a very small area of Los Angeles for most of his life. The Kingsley address was pretty far south of the Carlton Way/DeLongpre addresses though. It's number 14 marker here.

What always strikes me looking at that map is the separation between the jobs and the apartments. If you zoom out a couple of clicks you can see it.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

There is no reason to visit America to do research on Bukowski. You will come away with little or nothing. There are plenty of other reasons to come, but research is not one of them... Unless it's paying the freight... Sorry to sound so cynical, but it's true. Get some good drugs instead and some used paperbacks...

 

[roni]

[...] 1998, [...] Red Stodolsky [...] He draw me [...]

I do thank you for this cool drawing, baby (of course)!

But honestly: I start to wonder, Who you are. (okay, you're a guy from Germany, but this doesn't explain anything.)

You started to post a bunch of interesting contributions only a short time ago, while you've been hanging around quite a little longer. And obviously you know your stuff. Now you even come up with experiences from back to 1998 including Red, of whom we all know, he wouldn't do such a drawing for the usual, annoying passer-by, (unless he'd show some moxie).

You'll have to reveal your big secret now.
(Or I'll need to look it up on wikileaks.)

There is no reason to visit America to do research on Bukowski. You will come away with little or nothing. [...]

just to quote from Hank:
"Now, that's a fucking unreasonable statement, isn't it?"


btw here's another okay-map of the cemetery + location of the grave:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=106451152792931

(when I asked the people there in 2007, none of them was able to tell me the place. I had to wander around a little.)

 

[BadBadams]

Hey thanks again everyone for the insider advice plus cartography. Gonna be great to have in my bag after touch down.

Pogue: I do not necessarily disagree with you but, as it happens, research IS paying the freight and there's a lot to be said for the experience itself. Hence the desire to get around the old neighbourhood(s), so to speak.

Merry Christmas to all by the way . . . I'll be hiding in a dingy apartment with a bottle of Chivas, in true Buk spirit before take off.

 

[Gary Eisenberg]

If you want to do it in the spirit of Buk, don't do it with Chivas. Do it with some GOOD beer or wine. Buk didn't go for the hard stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with Chivas. Just saying.

 

[BadBadams]

Fair call Gary, fair call. Though he drank the hard stuff when younger, yes? I was probably thinking of the Tom Waits song 'Downtown' anyhow: "drinkin' chivas regal in a $4 room".

 

[Purple Stickpin]

From Women:

"I have here one pint of Cutty Sark from which I am peeling the cellophane. I am going to have a drink. And the liquor store will now be open for 20 hours."