So here’s something.

I was just Googling something about my building, and inadvertently discovered that Carey McWilliams lived in my apartment 70 years ago (my actual unit, not just the building). He hung out with Upton Sinclair and his best friend was H. L. Mencken, who I’m reading this very moment. 

From another site:

“His influence runs deep but is now largely invisible. Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay for Chinatown was inspired by a book McWilliams wrote in 1946. César Chávez said he learned most of what he knew about California agribusiness from McWilliams. Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit owes a good deal to McWilliams’s writing and advocacy. Hunter S. Thompson credited Hell’s Angels, his first bestseller, to McWilliams.”

I live in this guy’s house.