The Charles Bukowski Westlake Walk — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

The Charles Bukowski Westlake Walk — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Bukowski on Film

• Bukowski: Born Into This (documentary)
• Barfly, limited-edition region-free Blu-ray with Bukowski voice-over (Grindhouse Video, archived page) — Kim Cooper and Richard Schave recorded one of the voice-overs on this edition. The Grindhouse Video page is gone; this is the February 2023 capture.

Charles Bukowski’s FBI File

• Charles Bukowski’s FBI file (Internet Archive)

The Huntington Library

• Become a Huntington Reader
• Living and Writing on the Edge: the Huntington’s Bukowski collection
• Charles Bukowski Papers, Huntington Library
• Charles Bukowski Periodical Collection, 1941-2009 (bulk 1972-1994)
• John Martin Collection of Charles Bukowski Periodicals, 1940-2003

Books by the Women in His Life

• Charles Bukowski: Epic Glottis, His Art & His Women (& me), by Joan Jobe Smith
• Joan Jobe Smith (Silver Birch Press book page)
• Loving & Hating Charles Bukowski, by Linda King

A Catalog of Ordinary Madness

• Book review: A Catalog of Ordinary Madness, by Abel Debritto — The first comprehensive Bukowski bio-bibliography, almost fifteen years in the making. 854 pages, released July 2024.
• A Catalog of Ordinary Madness (Chatwin Books)

Bamboo Inn, Heather Apartments and the Fire Station

• Bamboo Inn, 2005 W 7th St
• The Heather Apartments: A Long Goodbye
• Engine Company No. 11, 1819 W. Seventh Street
• Fire Station (For Jane With Love)

Hotel Californian

• The Hotel Californian neon is alive, alive!
• The Strange Fortune of the Hotel Californian
• Hotel Californian neon dedication, 2016

Superet Light Church

• Superet Light Church, 2516 W 3rd St
• Superet was founded by Polish Countess Josephine C. Trust in 1925
• About Josephine C. Trust (archived page) — The Superet Light Doctrine site is offline; this is the October 2025 capture.
• Channeling the Symbols of God’s Radiation: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Functions of Sacred Materials in Superetism (MFA thesis, Maria Grey Brown Degenhart, UCLA, 2019)
• Superet Light Church, Historic Cultural Monument 555

The Ozmun Apartments, 341 S Alvarado

• Ozmun Court, South Pasadena — Named for Gertrude Ozmun (c. 1880-1958), a real estate speculator who in 1914 sold plots on Ozmun Court, then built what would become the Fair Oaks Pharmacy, a South Pasadena landmark.
• Fair Oaks Avenue (LA Street Names)

John Fante and Charles Bukowski

• John Fante made Charles Bukowski a writer and Charles Bukowski made John Fante famous

Coronado Street and West Third

• Mother Pluckers, 2511 W 3rd St
• Drone footage: 280 S Coronado and 503 S Union Dr
• 268 S Coronado Ave: “A Radio with Guts” (poem)
• William Reagh, Los Angeles Photography Center, 2332 West Fourth Street

John Martin, Black Sparrow Press and The Gnostics

• John Martin, Black Sparrow Press founder and champion of literary rebels, dies at 94 (New York Times)
• “I Never Saw Him Drunk”: an interview with Bukowski’s longtime publisher (Vice)
• The Gnostics (1973), by Jacques Lacarrière

Beaulyland

• Save Beaulyland!
• Beaulyland, Morning Edition
• Beaulyland illegal demolition (The Dusty Archive)
• The City of Los Angeles is doing Beaulyland dirty and citizens hold the soap

Wallace Berman and the Biggs Bach Book

• Esotouric Podcast, You Can’t Eat the Sunshine, Episode #111: The Wild World of Wallace Berman
• The Biggs Bach Book: Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115, from the Little Music Book for Anna Magdalena Bach (E. Power Biggs) — The Biggs of the Biggs Bach Book is the organist E. Power Biggs, whom Bukowski was listening to on the radio when he threw it out the window in his poem “A Radio with Guts.”
• “A Radio with Guts” (poem)