Recent content by Jeff

Somewhere I saw a Bukowski timeline which showed the 7500 buck annual income for father in the Depression as a delivery driver -- he may have had other sources of income; in HoR, we are told that Hank's first job at a department store called something like "Meer Starbuck" (when I google, I of...

If he was making 7500 bucks in the 1930s that was very good I think. In 1940 during the war two bucks an hour was good money. I think his dad was making this during his time delivering milk which, if one thinks of it, was a sort of good and important job -- somewhat a combination of delivery and...

He describes for example sneaking into a film studio where King Kong was filmed in 5th grade. But that film was released in 1933 when CB would have been 13, way too old for 5th grade. My guess is CB fictionalized Ham on Rye more than somewhat or simply forgot some details years later.

i posted something about fante but can't find it -- is there an approval period?

20 years almost after this post i see neeli is still around.

she passed away according to wikipedia in 2009. she was 87 or so, born in 1922.

And that's how I found this site. Liked Bukowski for years, had a friend who introduced me, he by chance met CB's daughter, I guess at a library while CB was still alive. I really did not expect to find info on the Becker character -- sad but not unexpected to read that he perished in ww2 --...