Remembering John Fante atop Angels Flight

A segment of Richard Schave's walking tour that followed the John Fante Square dedication on April 8, 2010. Speakers include the author's children Dan, Jim & Vickie, biographer Stephen Cooper, writer David Kipen & resident of old Bunker Hill Gordon Pattison.
For video of the John Fante Square dedication ceremony that happened a few minutes earlier, visit this Archive.org link:
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Photos from the dedication ceremony
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Esotouric's occasional bus and walking tour John Fante's Dreams from Bunker Hill rolls again on April 9, 2011 in a literary weekend including a Sunday Charles Bukowski bus adventure. Info www.esotouric.com

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Glad you enjoyed the video. We give a Fante bus tour every year around his birthday in April, but this was a special one with many honored guests which followed the naming of John Fante Square.
We did attend the UCLA event where Stephen Cooper spoke, and it was wonderful.

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Ask the Dust is one of the greatest novels ever written and one of the most seriously underrated alongside Bukowski's Ham on Rye and Factotum.

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the road to los angeles is the greatest book on this planet!

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We'd love to hear any stories about John Fante that you'd care to share. He's a wonderful writer, and there are not that many people left who worked with him.

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Well done Richard, a fantastic tour that I'd love to go on. It was great to see Stephen Cooper there too. Did you see his talk at the UCLA Special Collections?

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Marvelous! Thank you for the story.
Hmm... a shark film in the 1950s? Sounds like Fante was ahead of his time, as usual.