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“Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.” – Raymond Chandler (712 North Heliotrope Drive). Eso- touric fol- lowed its initial Chandler tour with a tour of sites from novels by author John Fante, his books generally in the downtown L.A. area, and then, Charles Bukowksi, the poet and novelist whose works spanned downtown to the re- gions of Hollywood where he lived. “Once you write a John Fante tour, you really have no choice but to write a Charles Bukowski tour,” Schave says. “Among pivotal Bukowski points are certainly his Hollywood bungalow at 5124 De Longpre Ave, which was named a historical land- mark, and one of his haunts, Pink Elephant Liquor (1836 N Western Ave). Now if ever there ever was a Chandler expert, it’s Loren Latker, whose website includes a map of Chandler’s Los Angeles and loads of facts, de- tails and trivia. (Go to http://home- page.mac.com/llatker/) Latker is encyclopedic about Chan- dler-related locales. “At 1824 N. Curson off Hollywood Blvd is the Wattles Man- sion. Te 7000 block of Franklin Avenue dead ends into the East side of the property and Wattles Gardens. Tere are lots of pe- riod mansions on that portion of Franklin as well, one probably the model for General Sternwood’s from ‘Te Big Sleep.’” Latker mentions the building at the northeast corner of Hol- lywood and Highland, across from the complex that now houses the Kodak Teater and shops, still stands from Chandler’s period. Just west, south and north respectively as the Roosevelt Hotel and Grau- man’s Chinese Teater also from his time. And what about Marlowe’s office in Hollywood? Tat’s still debated, since Chandler never said exactly where it was, though dropped bits and pieces through out his series of stories. His office was, in 1936, origi- nally on the 7th floor of an unnamed building, but then is at #615 on the 6th floor of the Cahuenga Building by March/April 1939, which is the date of “Farewell, My Lovely.” “Hollywood and Cahuenga has always been con- sidered the location of Marlowe’s office. Many con- sider the Cahuenga Building (4621 Cahuenga Boulevard) - the old Pacific Security Bank Building- on the northeast corner to be his office,” Lasker says. “Others, especially the Hollywood Heritage folks consider the Hollywood Building on the southwest corner to be the site of Marlowe’s office. Both are at the intersection of Hollywood and Cahuenga, named Chandler Square.” Chandler also had Marlowe living in Hollywood, too. In “Te Big Sleep,” he lived at the Hobart Arms (or the Solana in books, too) around the 5100 block of Franklin’ Ave. near N. Kenmore Avenue, then moved to the Bristol Apartments, Apartment 428 (“Te Little Sister). By “Te Long Goodbye” in 1950, he was renting a house on Yucca Ave. At Franklin at Gramercy, he says, you would have continues WINTER 2010 / DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD 17 Pink Elephant Liquor Hollywood Guaranty Building John Fante