I learned the same thing yesterday -somebody on my Facebook feed linked to a George Takei article where he says that after their release from the interment camp during WW2, his family ended up living on Skid Row

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335945...ntent=20140728

It's remarkable. We've got lots of homeless here too, but not all dumped into one neighborhood like that. It's like the cops pick up any homeless people they find in nice parts of LA and drive them over to the Skid Row neighborhood and drop them off.

Look at this. There's nothing like that here. They are practically on top of one another.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles

St Louis has had several large gathering points for the homeless. Many used to live in a former underground railroad tunnel Downtown. Then there was a large homeless camping ground just north of Downtown on the Riverfront called Hope Town. It was torn down by the City several years ago, and the underground tunnel was sealed during repair work and the building of the Stan Musial Bridge.

Yeah ann arbor has Camp Take Notice, but it gets torn down and moved on periodically

It looks as though people who've been making wrong turns in their lives have been labeled no right turn.

The Seattle walking tour claims that the term skid row originated there. It was the road on the mountainside down which the lumberjacks would send the trees "skidding".

Wiki supports this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row

Today I learned that the anti-Obama protesters in KC need to learn to spell better...Thanks Oboma!

Oboma is a trait or criminal... Well, which is it?

moran

I learned that I need to do something about the plants on my footpath. A customer just almost fell over one of them trying to get back to her car. The problem is, it was pruned right back so it doesn't get in the way of the postman, but now people don't notice it because it's got no foliage on it, so kind of blends in with the grass (which is brown because there's been no rain). Anyway, the poor woman this morning did well not to throw cupcakes everywhere. She had to go home and change her stockings though. I wondered if I should compensate her. Oh well, time to put some sticks and a bit of netting or something around it till the leaves grow back properly.

so she was treading off the path?

Yes, but only because my car was in the driveway.

What on earth was your car doing in the driveway?!

:eek:

;)

well at least it wasn't in the garage....! :eek:

It was just chillin'. :)