MAYHEM & MACBRE: TURN~OF~THE~CENTURY BUNKER HILL

 ~presents~ 

" Mayhem & Macabre: Turn-Of The-Century Bunker Hill"  

 slide show & chat by Los Angeles historian~ RICK MECHTLY 

 April 6th  7pm

  $5 donation 

  Incredible visuals from early 1900s~ downtown Los Angeles~ Bunker Hill area. 

please join us for the one time only salon

  tea will be served

 no~ host bar 

 Antebellum 1643 N. Las Palmas Ave

 Hollywood, Ca 90028

 323 856~0667

 antebellum2013@att.net

 antebellumgallery.blogspot.com  

 In 1867, a wealthy developer, Prudent Beaudry, purchased a majority of the hill's land.

 He developed the peak of Bunker Hill  with lavish two-story Victorian houses that became famous as homes for the upper-class residents of Los Angeles.  

Angels Flight, now dubbed "The World's Shortest Railway," took residents homeward from the bottom of the 33% grade and down again. 

Bunker Hill and Pershing Square have great significance for early gay life in Los Angeles. 

Bunker Hill was a bohemian neighborhood that was already known to gay men by the 1910s, and it persisted as a haven for gay men through the 1950s. 

.Pershing Square became the area’s living room, both as a cruising area and as a more general meeting place.  The area was called “The Run” because it contained a circuit of cruising areas. It contained more than 30 establishments declared out of bounds for servicemen during World War II. 

The bars there ran the gamut from seedy to businessman respectable. 

The gay community on Bunker Hill was driven out by urban renewal between 1960 and 1964, when all the residential buildings were torn down for future development.