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bukowski’s boyhood home
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A young Charles Bukowski lived at this location from 1926 to 1930. He attended the Virginia Road Elementary School. While the family was at this address, Bukowski's father drove a dairy truck for L.A. Creamery.
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After Bukowski's family moved from Germany, sailed across the ocean to Baltimore, and traversed the country, they arrived to live with some relatives at this address.
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Born to an American soldier father and a German mother, Charles Bukowski started life at this location as Heinrich Karl Bukowski on August 16, 1920. Although his family left for America in 1923, Adernach still features the home with a plaque marking the site. There is a group trying to rent out the first floor of the home to make a Bukowski museum. The photo is Bukowski revisiting his birthplace.
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