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Originally Posted by Tourmaline
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Hill indeed! Holy cats, what a great hill-tel image, which I'd never seen. I can tell you just where that is (or, was):
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In the above late-50s image by Hylen, here's the Alta Vista Apts at 255 S Bunker Hill Avenue, which held a lofty perch above the Third Street Tunnel. If the window display truck shot is 1929 then it's four years before
Fante makes his home there, and the grisly
murder of Harriet Allen. On a cheerier note, look how those Washingtonia have grown!
In case anyone isn't quite oriented, this may help -- Third Street runs west, vertically from the bottom, from Grand (below frame), and dead-ends halfway toward Hope (with its bifurcating retaining wall below) at (the now disappeared) Bunker Hill Avenue. At the dead-end are the
benches where the alter kockers hung out.
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Third St then emerges from the Tunnel below and stretches west away from Bunker Hill.
Here is a link to Losey shooting the remake of
M there in 1951. (I might add the benches along the side feature prominently in the early-60s lady-serial-killer noir
Angel's Flight -- see
here and
here.) Just north of the Alta Vista, note the
oft-photographed 251 S BH. At far left along BHA, note the
Foss/Heindel House.
Now here's an interesting shot from 1966, there's the same driveway as in our 1929 image, and same fire hydrant, and yet...
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