Monthly Archives: July 2011
CCEA Personal Property Storage Facility
Last Tuesday, I got a chance to tour the CCEA Personal Property Storage Facility @ 1215 7th St. in Skid Row. Fred Faustino, Deputy Director of Operations @ the CCEA, showed me around and explained a little about how the … Continue reading
Complete Streets Working Group-July 27th @ 7pm
People of Skid Row, the photo above, is what is currently being discussed for Main Street. Why should you care? Here’s why…it is being proposed for SKID ROW!!! This is huge. Don’t know what a “Sharrow” lane is? Hey, I barely know myself, … Continue reading
Trumpet Trees
Golden Trumpet Tree Pink or Golden Trumpet Trees have been highly recommended to me to plant in Downtown Los Angeles by two people who have a wealth of knowledge about these things-Luis Torres, LA City’s Street Tree Inspector and Frank McDonough, a Master Botanist … Continue reading
Meet Brian, Horticulturist & new Skid Row resident
So, as luck would have it- I got an email from someone who wants to help with my tree planting project who also recently moved into the Skid Row neighborhood. His name is Brian, and he has a degree in Environmental Science/Horticulture. … Continue reading
TreePeople class today
Today I attended TreePeople’s (http://www.treepeople.org/) Tree Care Coordinator class at Siminski Park in Inglewood. There were several classes going on at the same time-but the one I took was specifically about how to set up Tree Care Event Days to … Continue reading
Ur-Bin @ the Charles Cobb
This past Saturday I took a walk down to the Charles Cobb Apartments @ 521 S San Pedro St. (http://www.skidrow.org/index.html). I was invited by Jayne Torres, who has a project called Ur-Bin. DLANC (http://dlanc.com/) was an early supporter. Ur-Bin has … Continue reading
don’t “top” your trees, please!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! This tree sits just barely outside of Skid Row borders @ the southeast corner of San Pedro & 7th. While this blog is specifically dedicated to green things within Skid Row territory, I am making an exception because I don’t want this … Continue reading
North Central Skid Row = “Hookahville”
I haven’t heard anybody else talk about this, much less write about it anywhere in the local media so I am just going to come out and say it, “North Central Skid Row has turned into “Hookahville”. Hookahville is the name … Continue reading
what about more murals?
Murals in Skid Row. How can we get some? If I was to walk just a few blocks east over into the Art’s District, I’m quite sure that I wouldn’t be able to throw a rock without hitting an artist. … Continue reading
our Ficus trees
is like… So, um…some group or committee or person or persons decided to plant a bunch of Ficus trees along many of Los Angeles’ sidewalks in the 50’s. I guess this was the “fashionable” tree to plant at that … Continue reading
