~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.
