Join us and guest lecturer Nathan Marsak. Marsak is a Los Angeles historian and his books are Los Angeles Neon; Bunker Hill, Los Angeles; Bunker Noir!; Marsak's Guide to Bunker Hill; and Los Angeles Before the Freeways.  He has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the LAPD Museum.  He is presently a train operator at Angels Flight Railway.

When one contemplates the vanished landscape of downtown's Bunker Hill area, the mind conjures visions of Victorian Queen Anne-style homes and Edwardian-era Beaux Arts apartment buildings. Bunker Hill is no longer with us, of course, having failed to conform to modernity, and was ultimately wiped away in the name of progress. Its wholesale demolition didn't happen overnight; rather, Bunker Hill—often imagined as a place suspended in amber—spent decades adapting to shifting modes of urbanism. In this illustrated talk, Marsak considers one particular hallmark of the modern age: the automobile, and its role in reshaping the Bunker Hill landscape. Witness how the horse-drawn world of the Hill responded to the arrival of new motive power, streetcars, emerging systems of access, and an era rooted in speed.

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