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The URM's First Home - 145 North Main
The Union Rescue Mission is well-remembered for its historic home at 226 South Main, where it held forth for fifty-plus years. That site, a labyrinthian place made up of two large linked structures,...
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The Los Angeles Prosperity Carnival and Indoor Fair of 1915
Here's a thrilling bit of lost Los Angeles lore worth shining a torch on: after San Francisco's celebrated Panama-Pacific International Exposition folded up its tents in late 1915, clever promoter H.W....
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Thinking About the URM On Thanksgiving 2012
I have something in common with the 40,000 people who became homeless as a result of Hurricane Sandy—I, too, have been homeless. Actually, the hurricane had good timing: it came right before National...
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A Thanksgiving Message from the URM--1937
From:Union Rescue Mission 226 S. Main St Los Angeles 12, Calif Tele: DU 2-8456, MA 8-6103FOR PRE-THANKSGIVING RELEASETURKEY TIME. . . The Union Rescue Mission of 226 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, which...
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A Thanksgiving message from Jim the cook at the Union Rescue Mission
LocationUnion Rescue Mission226 South Main90012date: November 22, 2012
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Sleuthing A Presidential Mystery in Downtown Los Angeles
Should you step into the lobby of the King Edward Hotel at the corner of 5th and Los Angeles Streets in L.A.'s historic Skid Row, and pause to admire the black and gold Egyptian marble fixtures, ionic...
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The Invocation of the Potato King
We are gathered together to remember a remarkable Angeleno, Maurice Zuckerman, The Potato King. His story ends at 721 South Burlingame, in a since-demolished house that looked out over the Brentwood...
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American Gothic on Skid Row
In decades past, it was a common dig at the middle-brow culture of Los Angeles to snipe that the town was chock full of Iowans--dishwater dull, prudish and constantly picnicking.It's true enough that...
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The Lady Ghosts of the Cecil Hotel
It was with shock and no small amount of horror that we learned that a body, believed to be that of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam, last seen behaving strangely in an elevator security video recorded on...
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The Case of the Missing Consul
I've discovered another mysterious disappearance tied to the Cecil Hotel. This one somehow eluded all previous archival searches, and it's quite an odd and interesting case. I call it The Case of the...
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