What I Learned Today - Page 23

monster · 07-29-2014, 03:08 PM

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

glatt · 07-29-2014, 03:51 PM

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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elSicomoro · 07-29-2014, 08:57 PM

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.

monster · 07-29-2014, 10:13 PM

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

sexobon · 07-30-2014, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

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

Spexxvet · 07-30-2014, 09:05 AM

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

elSicomoro · 07-30-2014, 11:40 AM

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

Griff · 07-30-2014, 05:14 PM

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

monster · 07-30-2014, 05:48 PM

moran

Aliantha · 07-30-2014, 06:13 PM

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.

monster · 07-30-2014, 07:03 PM

so she was treading off the path?

Aliantha · 07-30-2014, 09:53 PM

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

glatt · 07-31-2014, 08:17 AM

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

monster · 07-31-2014, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

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

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

Aliantha · 07-31-2014, 06:02 PM

It was just chillin'.

07-29-2014, 03:08 PM	#331
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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 __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-29-2014, 10:13 PM	#334
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Yeah ann arbor has Camp Take Notice, but it gets torn down and moved on periodically __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-30-2014, 09:05 AM	#336
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	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 __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

07-30-2014, 11:40 AM	#337
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Today I learned that the anti-Obama protesters in KC need to learn to spell better...Thanks Oboma! Attached Images

07-30-2014, 05:14 PM	#338
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Oboma is a trait or criminal... Well, which is it? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-29-2014, 03:51 PM	#332
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

07-29-2014, 08:57 PM	#333
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	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.

07-30-2014, 05:48 PM	#339
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	moran __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-30-2014, 06:13 PM	#340
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	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. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-30-2014, 07:03 PM	#341
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	so she was treading off the path? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-30-2014, 09:53 PM	#342
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Yes, but only because my car was in the driveway. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-31-2014, 08:17 AM	#343
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	What on earth was your car doing in the driveway?!

07-31-2014, 06:02 PM	#345
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	It was just chillin'. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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