{"id":7592,"date":"2011-09-30T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:21:14","slug":"a-drive-through-bunker-hill-and-downtown-los-angeles-in-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/09\/30\/a-drive-through-bunker-hill-and-downtown-los-angeles-in-the-1940s\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles in the 1940s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Extraordinary and crystal clear film of L.A.’s old Bunker Hill neighborhood. The entire area up the hill was blown out completely and basically strip-mined to make way for L.A.’s skyscraper district. On the one hand, it is a damn good thing the city isolated the destruction to the hill and left much of old downtown intact. But neighborhoods are always better than corporate complexes because people can actually do things in them. You can’t do anything in a corporate complex except hold a fake job that nobody needs anyway. You can’t even go for a walk on Bunker Hill anymore. Not really. You may think you can but you’re really just sneaking along next to a cement wall that’s meant to keep you out. Watching this film also makes it clear just how right they got 1948 Los Angeles in the recent L.A. Noir game.
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Extraordinary and crystal clear film of L.A.’s old Bunker Hill neighborhood. The entire area up the hill was blown out completely and basically strip-mined to make way for L.A.’s skyscraper district. On the one hand, it is a damn good thing the city isolated the destruction to the hill and left much of old downtown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1483,1314,353],"tags":[2532,2515,113],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-documentary-film","category-los-angeles","tag-1940s","tag-los-angeles","tag-vintage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t