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EXPLORING THE ANALOG UNDERGROUND | These Days, interviewed for Kodak

by Hank Chinaski - April 17 2020

These Days is a bookstore and zine emporium owned and curated with impeccable taste by born and raised Angelenos Stephen and Jodi Ziegler. “We’ve been residents of downtown LA for 13 years now,” says Stephen, who is an accomplished photographer in his own right and regularly hustles his own photographic fanzines. “Back then, Winston Street was rough and dirty and only the adventurous and/or those looking to score drugs would venture down there on foot.

THE ARCANE HISTORY OF 118 WINSTON | PART III

by Stephen Zeigler - April 17 2020

Los Angeles Noir

Indian Alley is an intense one-block stretch of dirty alleyway. It is paved with a mixture of new asphalt and the original hundred year old (approximate) red granite bricks that used to pave many of the downtown streets. It can be eerie and uncomfortable to be in sometimes like there is a restless spirit residing there, always watching.

THE ARCANE HISTORY OF 118 WINSTON | PART II

by Stephen Zeigler - April 17 2020

A PLACE OF REFUGE

By 1935, the height of the depression, downtown’s infamous Skid Row was in full swing. It is the first time I have seen the building referred to as a "mission" when The Times announced, “Rev. G. W. Scott, Scotch evangelist and signer, will conduct services at the new Cavalry Gospel Mission, 118 Winston street, every evening for the next two weeks”

THE ARCANE HISTORY OF 118 WINSTON | PART I

by Stephen Zeigler - April 17 2020

We are quite frequently asked about the curious building we are located in, so in this post I am going to attempt to tell some of it's history, what has taken place here, and some of the characters who have been involved over the last 130 years. It’s a long and storied history that I will only be able to scratch the surface of. All the information presented here was found by poring through the LA Times archives at the downtown LA Public Library. I have yet to find a photo of the original building or the original inhabitants but am sure with more devoted sleuthing I will eventually unearth something.

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