{"id":654,"date":"2012-04-02T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:23:57","slug":"the-flaneur-the-city-hill-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2012\/04\/02\/the-flaneur-the-city-hill-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fl\u00c3\u00a2neur & The City: Hill Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the latest installment of urban historian Richard Schave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site-specific discussion series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Fl\u00c3\u00a2neur & The City,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Richard (Esotouric bus adventures<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>In SRO Land<\/a>) is joined by architectural historian Nathan Marsak (1947project<\/a>, On Bunker Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On this excursion we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be casting our eyes along on one fascinating, but underappreciated, downtown boulevard: Hill Street.<\/p>\n

The tour begins at Alfred Rosenheim<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hamburger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department Store (the People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Store) at Eighth Street and concludes high atop Bunker Hill, with a focus on the most interesting buildings along the way, and poignant memorials for a few that have fallen to the wrecking ball. The last stop will be at Fort Moore Memorial<\/a>, where Hill Street meets the 101 freeway, a drab, functional place that now occupies what was once one of the most lyrical corners of old Los Angeles. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll share photos of the neighborhood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beloved funicular Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flight (Angels Flight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forgotten competition), the Victorian mansions of Bunker Hill, and explain how the Hill Street Extension of 1959 destroyed this part of Bunker Hill and took out a large part of the even more ancient neighborhood of Sonora Town.<\/p>\n

Tour attendees will meet on the 8th floor lounge of the Los Angeles Athletic Club<\/a>. The snack bar<\/a> will be open, and those who wish to purchase a sandwich or beverage before the walk are encouraged to arrive 20 minutes early to avoid a bottleneck. We will start with general historic overview of Hill Street in the lounge, and then make our way to Hamburger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s–no doubt following in the path of that store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder\u00c2\u00a0Moshe Hamburger, who lived at the Athletic Club in the early years of\u00c2\u00a0the 20th century.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE TOUR SERIES:<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Fl\u00c3\u00a2neur & The City\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an ongoing attempt to explore some of the more important issues revealed by the constantly changing heart of the metropolis. The core notion of the series is of culture and history as commodities that are packaged and sold to a target demographic; meanwhile, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the ignored and seemingly worthless scraps of meaning found on the sidewalks and marketplaces where the true remnants of positive public space can be found. All interpretations and nuisances of the word fl\u00c3\u00a2neur are examined\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom the modern-day aesthete dreaming of Baudelaire while carried along in the human tide past the stalls and shops of Broadway, to its more recent and perhaps relevant use, someone who is loitering. At its heart this series is a celebration of the simple act of getting out of your car, walking through a neighborhood and learning to see it with your own eyes.<\/p>\n

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For the latest installment of urban historian Richard Schave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site-specific discussion series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Fl\u00c3\u00a2neur & The City,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Richard (Esotouric bus adventures,\u00c2\u00a0In SRO Land) is joined by architectural historian Nathan Marsak (1947project, On Bunker Hill). On this excursion we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be casting our eyes along on one fascinating, but underappreciated, downtown boulevard: Hill Street. The tour begins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13,14,15,22,86,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}