Charles Bukowski (12 page)

Bukowski and his fi rst wife, Barbara Frye, pose together in December, 1956, just over a year after they married. This is the fi rst picture of the couple ever to be published.
(courtesy of Leah Belle Wilson)

The former premises of The Phillips Hotel in Hollywood. Jane Cooney Baker lived in one of the rooms facing onto Vermont Avenue and died a couple of days after suffering a hemorrhage here in 1962.
(picture taken by Howard Sounes)

Bukowski at the N. Mariposa rooming house in the early 1960s. Note the acne scars on his face and the way the wallpaper behind his left elbow is held together with sticky tape.
(courtesy of Special Collections, The University of Arizona Library)

The rooming house at 1623 N. Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles, where Bukowski moved in 1958 after he split with his fi rst wife and where he wrote some of his best early work.
(picture taken
by Howard Sounes)

Working in his room at N. Mariposa on the typing table his parents bought for him when he was a teenager. Copies of the Webbs’ Outsider magazine are on the table beside the typewriter.
(courtesy of ‘Gypsy Lou’ Webb)

The bungalow on De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood where Bukowski moved in 1964 with FrancEyE, ‘the mother of my child’.
(picture taken by Howard Sounes)

Bukowski’s landlords at De Longpre Avenue: Francis Crotty (left with hat) and Grace Crotty (middle with cat). On the right holding the pumpkin is neighbor and friend, Sina Taylor.
(courtesy of Sina Taylor)

Bukowski in his crummy bungalow on De Longpre Avenue, East Hollywood.
(courtesy of Liza Williams)

FrancEyE and Bukowski were man and wife in all but name and she was the mother of his only child. Here FrancEyE is seen with their daughter, Marina, who was born in 1964. They all lived together at De Longpre Avenue.
(courtesy of FrancEyE)

The Terminal Annex building in downtown LA where Bukowski worked for many years as a mail clerk and which he described so vividly in his seminal novel,
Post Offi ce. (picture taken by Howard Sounes)

Writer and small press publisher Douglas Blazek who published early breakthrough prose work by Bukowski in Ole magazine.
(courtesy of Douglas Blazek)

Writer Jory Sherman, a friend of Bukowski’s when he lived at N. Mariposa Avenue.
(courtesy of Jory
Sherman/photo credit: J. Jones)