I certainly don't want to upset you or anyone else...
Don't worry about that. If you want to be a filmmaker as a profession or art or whatever, I certainly hope you learn to allow yourself to upset people. If you aren't upsetting someone somehow, you're doing art wrong.
Anyway, the problem with your idea isn't that you need quotes, it's that the Los Angeles Bukowski lived in doesn't exist anymore. Half of the buildings may still be standing, but to get an idea of Bukowski's Los Angeles, or capture it on film (or whatever you use instead of film these days) I think you'll need a time machine more than a camera.
You may get something personal out of visiting some of those spots, or you may not, but filming most of them - I'm not sure what that's going to leave you with, other than a modern impression of a place that's almost four decades removed from the time Bukowski lived in it. 39 years is a long time in Los Angeles.
HBO premiered a show last night called
The Deuce, and when I heard they were setting the show in Times Square circa 1971 I wondered how the hell they were going to pull that off, considering how much New York City has changed since then. It turns out they had to move
122 blocks north, to Washington Heights, to find a spot that looked like Times Square looked 46 years ago. I think to catch the Los Angeles that Bukowski lived in on film you'd have to do the same thing. Find another spot far away from Hollywood to stand-in for the Hollywood that used to be.
If your goal is
not to capture the Los Angeles that Bukowski lived in on film, then ignore everything I just said. Maybe ignore me anyway, as a general rule, that's probably smart, and go make something that will upset me and all the other nerds here. Then you'll have something.