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The Hidden City
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Dan Carino
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May 30, 2009
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The Hidden City
KPCC's Shirley Jahad visits a dismantled homeless encampment under the 605 Freeway. LA County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the space was filled with animal carcasses, rats and housed babies.
Debris from a freeway overpass, 1987
Debris from a freeway overpass, 1987
(
Anne Knudsen, Los Angeles Public Library
)

KPCC's Shirley Jahad visits a dismantled homeless encampment under the 605 Freeway. LA County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the space was filled with animal carcasses, rats and housed babies.

KPCC's Shirley Jahad visits a dismantled homeless encampment under the 605 Freeway. LA County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the space was filled with animal carcasses, rats and housed babies.