Compton, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"…after a Compton woman was killed in a high-speed pursuit last January."

"Maybe she’s with her auntie out in Compton."

"DUPREE WAS AT his sister’s house, out past Watts, in Compton."

"I drove a long way. I wanted far from Watts and Compton so we went to East L. A.; what they call El Barrio today."

"…arrived home to the cluttered hominess of their apartments in South-Central and Compton…"

"Then I stuck with him clear out to Compton."

"At Alameda Street it turned north into Compton, and two of the riders in back got out."

"It’s true there are a zillion places no one in his right mind would like: Lakewood, Torrance, Brea, Compton, Carson, no one real lived there, any more than real people lived in those grey asphalt boxes that line the roads between New York’s airport and its island."

"It was a walk that belonged on the streets of Compton, or in the parking lot of the Inglewood Forum, out at the Pomona car show."

"…Once they were in a fight and Sammy was trying to buy heroin at the hamburger stand in Compton."

"This is me at the Compton Cookout … I’m the third ‘ghetto chick’ from the right."