LAVA’s Union Rescue Mission Walking Tour: 122 Years on Skid Row

Kim Cooper

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Once a year, LAVA hosts a walking tour along the historic paths that have delineated Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Tour guides for 2013 were Nathan Marsak & Richard Schave (1947project), Rev. Andy Bales (Union Rescue Mission) & Prof. Paul Rood (Biola). Read more about this walk here, or watch/listen to the video below.

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

LAVA’s Union Rescue Mission Walking Tour: 122 Years on Skid Row

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