Episode #73: 100 Years of “Dealing With” L.A.’s Skid Row
07/07/14 • 77 min
Join us this week as we visit with Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, for an update on the humanitarian and public policy crisis facing Skid Row. We’ll also talk with Cal State Los Angeles History Professor Mark Wild about Garfield Bromley Oxnam, a Methodist Minister who came to Skid Row nearly a century ago with a vision of empathy for the afflicted and a mission to restore their neighborhood—radical concepts then, and still worth discussing today.
We’ll also discuss Mayor Garcetti’s establishment of a nonprofit to aid city initiatives, plans for the long-derelict Art Deco Gilmore Gas station on Highland to become a drive-through Starbucks, encouraging news for preservation with L.A.‘s new Citywide Historic Context report, redevelopment plans for the Sunkist headquarters in Sherman Oaks, community outcry saves the Sunkist water tower in Ontario and urban archeologists explore the old State Building demolition site. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of July 7th, 2014
Photo credit: All Nation’s Chapel, 1924 (6th & Gladys), Skid Row today , and G. Bromley Oxnam.
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Union Rescue Mission website. Reverend Andy Bales on Twitter. Our URM history blog.
Mark Wild’s CSULA faculty page, and his book Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles (UC Press, 2005).
L.A. Mayor Garcetti establishes a nonprofit to aid city initiatives.
Derelict Gilmore gas station to become a drive-through Starbucks.
Ken Bernstein explains L.A.’s first-ever citywide historic context survey.
Development plans for former Sunkist HQ parking lots.
Sunkist water tower survives in Ontario.
Old lawsuit backs theory that demolition crew found old L.A. Times foundation. Our newsletter editorial calling for the city to slow down when archeological finds like this one are made.
Booksigning at Vroman’s for Kim’s novel, The Kept Girl this Thursday.
July LAVA Sunday Salon
LAVA event — LAVA Crime Lab: Crash & Spatter.
Upcoming Bus Tours
- Charles Bukowski
- Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.
- The Real Black Dahlia
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.’s Melting Pot
- The Lowdown on Downtown
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Join us this week as we visit with Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, for an update on the humanitarian and public policy crisis facing Skid Row. We’ll also talk with Cal State Los Angeles History Professor Mark Wild about Garfield Bromley Oxnam, a Methodist Minister who came to Skid Row nearly a century ago with a vision of empathy for the afflicted and a mission to restore their neighborhood—radical concepts then, and still worth discussing today.
We’ll also discuss Mayor Garcetti’s establishment of a nonprofit to aid city initiatives, plans for the long-derelict Art Deco Gilmore Gas station on Highland to become a drive-through Starbucks, encouraging news for preservation with L.A.‘s new Citywide Historic Context report, redevelopment plans for the Sunkist headquarters in Sherman Oaks, community outcry saves the Sunkist water tower in Ontario and urban archeologists explore the old State Building demolition site. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of July 7th, 2014
Photo credit: All Nation’s Chapel, 1924 (6th & Gladys), Skid Row today , and G. Bromley Oxnam.
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Union Rescue Mission website. Reverend Andy Bales on Twitter. Our URM history blog.
Mark Wild’s CSULA faculty page, and his book Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles (UC Press, 2005).
L.A. Mayor Garcetti establishes a nonprofit to aid city initiatives.
Derelict Gilmore gas station to become a drive-through Starbucks.
Ken Bernstein explains L.A.’s first-ever citywide historic context survey.
Development plans for former Sunkist HQ parking lots.
Sunkist water tower survives in Ontario.
Old lawsuit backs theory that demolition crew found old L.A. Times foundation. Our newsletter editorial calling for the city to slow down when archeological finds like this one are made.
Booksigning at Vroman’s for Kim’s novel, The Kept Girl this Thursday.
July LAVA Sunday Salon
LAVA event — LAVA Crime Lab: Crash & Spatter.
Upcoming Bus Tours
- Charles Bukowski
- Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.
- The Real Black Dahlia
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.’s Melting Pot
- The Lowdown on Downtown
Listen to Episode #73!
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Episode #72: West Hollywood Preservationists Arise
Join us this week as we talk with preservation advocate Kate Eggert about the grave threat facing two notable West Hollywood buildings, a 1938 Wurdman & Beckett Streamline Moderne animal hospital and a 1959 Barry Berkus Mid-Century Modern office building. We’ll also visit with architect Jen Dunbar, head of the recently formed advocacy group West Hollywood Preservation Alliance, to learn how community members are banding together to bring an awareness of historic preservation to a neighborhood that’s packed with architectural gems and demolition permits.
We’ll also discuss a proposal to put a bike path in the Los Angeles River, the 2014 Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Awards (interviewee Jen Dunbar sits on the jury), our preservation concerns as the last tenant leaves the art deco Lincoln Heights Jail and some long-hidden historic details are revealed as the Rosslyn Hotel is renovated for formerly homeless tenants. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of June 30th.
Photo: Dr. Eugene C. Jones Animal Hospital (1938) Wurdeman & Becket, Architects (From the Bruce Becket Archives).
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Save the SMB Streamline Moderne on Facebook.
Los Angeles Magazine coverage of the preservation threat.
Melrose Triangle EIR information sheet on the Barry Berkus-designed office building
Kate Eggert & Krisy Gosney’s Dead History Project.
West Hollywood Preservation Alliance website.
News report on the restoration of Atascadero City Hall and statue restoration report.
Flickr photoset of our tour of the Atascadero City Hall (and some road trip scenes).
A proposal to run a bike path in the Los Angeles River.
2014 Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Awards Jury.
The Lincoln Heights Jail is empty.
Rosslyn Hotel skylight exposed.
July LAVA Sunday Salon
LAVA event — LAVA Crime Lab: Crash & Spatter.
Kim’s novel, The Kept Girl, is now available
Listen to Episode #72!
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Episode #74: Bibles & Rotisserie Chicken
Join us this week as we talk with Albert Okura, founder of Southern California’s rotisserie chicken restaurant chain Juan Pollo, and self-proclaimed “fast food king” of the Inland Empire, to learn about his 50-year-plan for success and musings on the mercurial nature of the industry. We’ll also visit with BIOLA professor Paul Rood to discuss Lyman Stewart, the founder of Union Oil, BIOLA University and the Union Rescue Mission, and the new exhibition of Stewart’s life and work at BIOLA in La Mirada.
We’ll also discuss permit problems for the crowd-funded return of the Glassellland sign, a new historic map overlay toy from the USGS, Liz Arnold’s longform Curbed article on saving Batchelder tile installations in Downtown LA and its bombshell reportage on how developer Tom Gilmore’s contractors Spectra dissolved the celebrated tiles in the El Dorado Lofts in acid and replaced them with fakes. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of July 14th, 2014.
Photo: Albert at Del Taco circa 1980.
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Paul Rood at BIOLA.
Albert Okura’s Juan Pollo website and his book, Albert Okura the Chicken Man.
Permitting problems for the return of the Glassellland sign.
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer has launched.
Liz Arnold’s Curbed feature on Batchelder tile preservation.
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