{"id":1078,"date":"2013-08-21T07:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"union-rescue-mission-walking-tour-122-years-on-skid-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2013\/08\/21\/union-rescue-mission-walking-tour-122-years-on-skid-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Rescue Mission Walking Tour: 122 years on Skid Row"},"content":{"rendered":"
To sign up for this free event: <\/strong>First register<\/a> as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left, above this paragraph. Click “signup” and reserve your spot. No plus-ones; each guest must register individually.<\/p>\n ABOUT THIS EVENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n Please join Nathan Marsak<\/a> & Richard Schave<\/a> of 1947project<\/a> and Rev. Andy Bales<\/a> of the Union Rescue Mission<\/a> (URM) for a 90-minute walking tour along the historic paths that have delineated Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. This tour derives from the ongoing 1947project In SRO Land<\/a> blog series that uses the archives of the URM (founded 1891) as a tool for exploring the social and architectural history of the forgotten people and places of Downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The tour begins with a survey of the early history of the outreach by the URM through its gospel wagon and at two now-lost buildings: the original home at 145 N. Main (now City Hall Lawn) and the long-time location at 226 S. Main (now a parking lot next to the former St. Vibiana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cathedral).<\/p>\n The main themes will be the evolution of public policy on Skid Row, the transformative work of the URM, and the architectural history of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n The route will include Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets (for a then\/now comparison of the surviving and demolished locations featured in the 1949 URM-financed short film Of Scrap & Steel,<\/em> which will be screened later in the evening in a free event that requires a separate reservation<\/a>). At 3rd and San Pedro Streets we will discuss the Azusa Street Revival<\/a>, a transformative event in the spiritual history of Los Angeles and the West. During the walk back to the current home of the URM, Rev. Andy Bales will talk about issues and challenges facing the neighborhood and the URM today.<\/p>\n