When I wrote “The Forest Dark,” I wanted to make L.A. as much a character as any of the actual human ones in the book — which takes a snapshot of Los Angeles in the 1980s yet is mostly set in 2009.

Only the reader can judge if it succeeds in evoking the real personality and feel of the place, but I’d say these are the top locations in the book:

• Shirley Knolls – the apartment building where Noah lived for most of the time period, where Eden also lived (characters in the book). Unlike Eden and Noah, this is a real place, on Franklin Avenue near Commonwealth in Los Feliz.

 

 

• The Tiki-Ti — This little shack has been on my L.A. radar for as long as I can remember, though I think I’ve only been inside once and certainly never hung out there. A certain person might, such as those characters in this book. It seems to have undergone a renaissance in recent years as the immediate area has gotten more of a hip cachet.

 

• Hollywood Park — the race track, the horse race track! And it’s now closed, though it hadn’t when I wrote the book. Good thing, and good thing I got to go when I did research. Very historical location, now it belongs to the ages and I think it’s going to be a condo development – what else?

 

• The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel — Great and again historical location, I believe this is the location where the Oscars were first presented. Supposed to be haunted, it’s got a David Hockney art as part of the pool. That’s where Eden would want to stay on her trip to L.A., even though there are many newer and fancier places to stay in Hollywood these days.

 

 

 

 

 

• Channel Road – Will Rogers Beach. In the book, one character works at a store near the beach, and later in the book, another character gets a beach rental close by. Many of my early summer days in Los Angeles as a twentysomething were centered around this street. (good good memories!)

 

• Bourgeois Pig — always loved the name of this place and used to write here on occasion when I rented fairly close by in Hollywood, on a street called Ivarene. The Forest Room in back used to be kind of a casbah room, where I’d occasionally meet blind dates, men I found on the internet. Also some good memories!
• Convent of the Precious Blood — Made up institution and features, but the location is based on a real place, which happens to be just down the road from the La Bianca House (Manson murders) in Los Feliz. The real joint is called the convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on Waverly Drive. (no picture yet)

 

• Glendower Place, Perelson Mansion. Off of Vermont Avenue near Griffith Park, a real location and a real story. A murder suicide that occurred in 1959, and a house that has never really been lived in since then. Fascinating story which I incorporated into my fictional narrative.

 

• KCET Building on Sunset – originally Monogram Studios and Allied Artists studios, home of “The Bowery Boys” and possibly where “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” was filmed, or certainly where the production company was located. In 2011 KCET sold the studio to the Church of Scientology (and so it begins another bizarre chapter in its existence).

 

• Hollywood Boulevard and Gramercy – location of the little store where Noah is asked to commit a crime. I write at a coffeehouse on that corner, Sabor y Cultura. There’s this fantastic art deco building across the street – perhaps it used to be a car dealership or something of that nature back in the day — but it certainly gets the creative juices going for me.

One of the most fun things for me as the author of “The Forest Dark” was figuring how to weave these places into a story. If you’re not familiar with Los Angeles, perhaps some of these locations will be new to you.

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