#fb This is Billy. My daughter loves him. He used to talk to her about camping and listen to her chatter on about the trials of being 10 years old. He hasn’t been homeless in a few years, but he lives in housing on skid row. Building skills like money management and how to pay […]

#fb The Skid Row McDonalds is near the bus station. Someone gave me a restroom token and a Monopoly piece for a "beef sandwich" which I was eating when this woman came in. " I jst need 5 more dollars and then I can get out of this place. I can’t live here anymore. This […]

I had a friend who lived in this SRO, with no airconditioning and communal bathrooms/showers on each floor. To get cool at night we would turn on the fans, open the windows to the sounds of the street (cars,fights,hookers,porn being filmed in the old church across the street) and wet towels with cold water to […]

When you get to the point in the city where there are few cars but many people, you’ve found Skid Row. No one had to pull to the right to let the firetruck pass becaise only pedestrians were on the street

Today there was a special outreach group giving out food on 6th, which they had blocked off, and some people came by handing out food from their vans and cars, and other places were open to feed the public who signed up with their agency. But… no trashcans were available for the left overs and […]

#fb I used to spray perfume on my wrists and the cuffs of my shirts so when I would go through a smelly are I could look like I was scratching,rubbing my nose and inhaling. Body spray wears off! Wow. I had forgotten what urine that is puddled and baking in the sun smells like. You […]