Skid Row Los Angeles Get Together?

gr82bart

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Anyone want to get together Saturday, February 3 all day? Thinking we can do Skid Row and surrounding market area south.

Meet at Broadway entrance of Grand Central Market at 9am

Some recent articles.....
http://www.gq.com/story/skid-row-police-shooting-charly-keunang

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/484162025/on-las-skid-row-homeless-women-seek-shelter-from-the-streets

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/05/gentrification-skid-row-los-angeles-homeless

Who's in? PM me your cell phone too. Thanks!
 

Sirius Glass

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Not available that weekend, I will be skiing in Canada.

I am not interested in skid row. Period.
 

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It is fascinating to see how "skid road", which is a term that originated in the logging town that early Vancouver started out as, has migrated as far as it has.

If I had a chance to go out photographing with Art, I would jump at it.
 

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MattKing said:
It is fascinating to see how "skid road", which is a term that originated in the logging town that early Vancouver started out as, has migrated as far as it has.

If I had a chance to go out photographing with Art, I would jump at it.
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I agree Art is well travelled and has a good handle on this thing we call photography.
 

Julie McLeod

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MattKing said:
It is fascinating to see how "skid road", which is a term that originated in the logging town that early Vancouver started out as, has migrated as far as it has.

If I had a chance to go out photographing with Art, I would jump at it.
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I'd never heard that about the origin about the term "skid row". Did it have to do with skids that were used to move logs overland on snow/ice?
 

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Julie McLeod said:
I'd never heard that about the origin about the term "skid row". Did it have to do with skids that were used to move logs overland on snow/ice?
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Actually, the skids were used to move the logs from and through forested areas to water and the Hastings Mill, overland on what was most likely became essentially rivers of mud.
The Hastings Mill was located where Vancouver's Skid Row (as it is often written now) currently is.
 

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Thanks for explaining, Matt. That's around where the Gastown Riots were, I guess? I saw the Stan Douglas photograph of that event when I was out there for my first visit a few years back.
 
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