Skid Row, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"He is the kind of thin quiet little bum nobody pays much attention to even in Skid Row, let alone Main Street."

"just a minute after walking across the street in the clean morning sun Japhy'd said, "You know, the earth is a fresh planet, why worry about anything?" (which is true) now we were foraging with bemused countenances among all kinds of dusty old bins filled with the washed and mended shirts of all the old bums in the Skid Row universe."

"I drank coffee in Skid Row coffee houses, South Main Street, coffee-and, seventeen cents."

"went up to Skid Row in a drizzling rain to get cheap haircuts at the barber college"

"in the same area of the world of Main Street but not really a part of it, is Skid Row—and you see prematurely old defeated men, flying on. Thunderbird or Gallo wine, lost in this sunny rosy haven—"