Alta Vista (255 South Bunker Hill Ave)
This building was built in 1904. It was the home of John Fante in 1933, and served as the model for Arturo Bandini's residences for both the novels, "Ask The Dust," and "Dreams From Bunker Hill."The...
View ArticleOdd Incarnations: The Bunker Hill of Towne’s Ask the Dust
Bunker Hill of old is gone, never to be again. Until we concoct some Disneyesque Colonial Williamsburgian simulacrum, complete with sullen teenagers hired to pose as grimy grifters, we’ll never be able...
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