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university radio and electronics
from philip k. dick posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
This is the address of University Radio and Electronics where Philip K. Dick worked in 1944 when he was fifteen. It was one of two Berkeley shops owned by Herb Hollis (the other was Art Music a few blocks away). Here Dick worked as a clerk selling radios, tvs, and appliances. The owner Herb Hollis would become the inspiration for Leo Bulero in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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from philip k. dick posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Philip K. Dick and his fraternal twin sister Jane were born six weeks prematurely in this Chicago apartment on December 16, 1928. Jane would die not long after in January of the next year.
bukowski’s junior high
from charles bukowski posted in literature by prof_improbable
Back when this junior high was known as Mount Vernon Junior High School, Charles Bukowski went to school here (1933-1936).
It is now named Cochran Middle School in honor of lawyer to the famous, Johnnie Cochran, who also went to school here.
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from charles bukowski posted in literature by prof_improbable
This is where Bukowski went to elementary school from 1926 to 1932.
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from charles bukowski posted in literature by prof_improbable
Bukowski was buried here in 1994 after he died from leukemia. Contradictory even in death, Bukowski's gravestone is engraved with the phrase, "Don't Try." This was his final advice to people who would ask him how to write.
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