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Downtown

nobody ever goes downtown anymore

the plants and trees are cut down around

From February 24th through April 8th, These Days is exhibiting the work of Leafar Seyer, singer of the Cholo Goth duo Prayers. We first met Leafar by chance over a year ago, when he and his manager happened into the gallery. 

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

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, 

A LONG AND STORIED HISTORY

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

Restoring a photographic narrative from a de-colonial perspective allows for a face to face experience with images that no longer stand in the way of dignity. The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project  

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,”