Book description
This stunning work constitutes Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Leo Politi’s love letter to Bunker Hill. In the 1960s, during a period of urban renewal, Los Angeles chose to demolish the 30 blocks of 19th-century homes that Politi had called home for several decades of his life. Here, in strikingly colored line…
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Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill was once a beautiful residential area of Victorian homes of wealthy Angelenos.
In the early 1960s, most of the homes had fallen into disrepair and were being demolished (LA isn’t renowned for his love of history). Leo Politi, prolific artist and writer, documented the area in words and pictures so people could still see what it looked like.
I’m a native of the LA area (Pasadena, to be precise) and a historian at heart. I love this book and Leo Politi, whom I met several times when I worked in the Pasadena Public Library. The almost…
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