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bukowski’s junior high
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bukowski’s junior high
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Back when this junior high was known as Mount Vernon Junior High School, Charles Bukowski went to school here (1933-1936).
It is now named Cochran Middle School in honor of lawyer to the famous, Johnnie Cochran, who also went to school here.
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This is where Bukowski went to elementary school from 1926 to 1932.
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Bukowski was buried here in 1994 after he died from leukemia. Contradictory even in death, Bukowski's gravestone is engraved with the phrase, "Don't Try." This was his final advice to people who would ask him how to write.
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From 1949 to 1951, Bukowski worked at this location when it was Sunbeam Lighting Co.
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