Publisher's Synopsis
Bunker Hill is the highest point of downtown Los Angeles, both literally and figuratively. Its circle of life has created a continuous saga of change, each chapter rich with captivating characters, structures, and culture. Once home to wealthy Angelenos living in LA's "first suburb," then the epicenter of the city's shifting demographics and the shadow and vice of an urban underbelly, Bunker Hill survived its attempted erasure and burgeoned as a hub of arts, politics, business, and tourism. As compelling as the story of the destruction of Bunker Hill is-with all the good intentions and bad results endemic to city politics-it was its people who made the Hill at once desirable and undesirable. Nathan 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. Marsak lures us into Bunker Hill Los Angeles and shares its lost world, then guides us to its new one.
