Bunker Hill Los Angeles: The Essence of Sunshine and Noir 

A Virtual Book Talk with Author Nathan Marsak

October 18, 2020 at 3PM

Packed with rare and vintage images, Bunker Hill Los Angeles takes readers on a visual journey through LA's history and future—sunshine and noir.

Join us on October 18 when author Nathan Marsak discusses his new book Bunker Hill Los Angeles: The Essence of Sunshine and Noir. The book is a photographic exploration of one of Los Angeles’s oldest and most storied neighborhoods.

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. In Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir, historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district’s inception in the mid-19th century to its present day, site of the city’s highest echelon of cultural events, from its opera and philharmonic, to its vast art museum scene. 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.

With more than 250 photographs—many in color—as well as maps and vintage ephemera to tell his dramatic visual story, Marsak lures us into Bunker Hill Los Angeles and shares its lost world, then guides us to its new one. In his presentation for the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles, Nathan will be focusing on the Art Deco treasures of Bunker Hill that are rarely seen or discussed!

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$10 for ADSLA members

$14 General Admission

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