From 1965 to 1972, Charles Bukowski lived at this bungalow. While at this location, John Martin of Black Sparrow press offered Bukowski $100 a week for life if he would quit the post office and write full time. Bukowski agreed. While living at this home, he wrote "The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills", "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", "Post Office", and many more.

In 2007 and 2008, the bungalow was in danger of being torn down. In February 2008, it became a Los Angeles cultural landmark.

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From 1974 to 1977, Charles Bukowski lived at this location. While here, he wrote Factotum (1975), Art (1976), Love Is A Dog From Hell (1977), and several others.

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In San Pedro, Bukowski lived at this residence from 1978 until his death in 1994.

He wrote many works while he lived here: Ham On Rye (1982), Hot Water Music (1983), Tales Of Ordinary Madness (1983), Barfly (1984), and many more.

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Now an Acme supermarket, this location was the site of the famous Moyamensing Prison.

The prison had many notable guests. In 1944, Charles Bukowski spent 17 days here for suspicion of draft evasion. He was later exempted from service for "failing to meet medical standards" after a physical and psychological evaluation.

On July 1, 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was in Philadelphia, he drank, became drunk and hallucinatory, and made a suicide attempt. He was detained for public drunkenness and incarcerated for one night.

The prison was destroyed in 1968. Today, all that is left is a low heavy masonry stone wall remaining from the prison of the 1830s on the site along Reed Street.

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In 1942, this location was a Nabisco plant, and Charles Bukowski worked for a brief time.

Now it is an empty lot.

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