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Legend: David and family roots

Dogtown

The area is part of the Oakland CA Clawson district, and even city planners refer to it by its canine nickname in official documents. Police pinned the name on the neighborhood because more junkyard dogs lived there than people. That would correspond with a story told by Councilmember Nancy Nadel, who has lived on Helen Street for 23 years. "When I moved there everybody had a dog," she said. "We even had a volunteer dog, a Great Dane. It wasn't our dog, but it ran away from a junkyard and adopted us. He loved our porch, and lived there until he died."

Gentrification - (Displacement)

In West Oakland a community land trust has been formed in an attempt to secure collective non-profit ownership of residentially-zoned land. The Institute for Community Economics has worked to retain West Oakland's longtime residents and mitigate the economic impacts of rent intensification. With some developers interested in a "village community" with the West Oakland BART station as its center, West Oakland has seen an influx of new residents. In response, programs such as the Anti-Displacement Network, have attempted to assist in the stabilization of costs for homeowners and renters in West Oakland. Redevelopment proponents believe such projects under way in West Oakland will provide employment, neighborhood-serving retail health services, recreational facilities, special placement facilities, and new affordable housing... (affordable for whom???)

Legend: being displaced out of Dogtown David and family end up in the "lower bottoms"

Lower Bottom

The Lower Bottoms (also known as The Bottoms is the informal name of a neighborhood of West Oakland in Oakland, California। The neighborhood boundaries are Mandela Parkway to the east, 7th Street to the south, West Grand Avenue to the north, and the former Oakland Army Base to the west. The neighborhood has suffered from high rates of crime and poverty since the decline of Oakland's industrial economy in the late 20th century. The neighborhood earned its nickname after the construction of the Cypress Freeway in the 1950s that split the West Oakland neighborhood in two and isolated Oakland Point from the remainder of West Oakland.

*In Memory of Davids Brother- Mike who was kill on the edge of Dogtown boardering Ghosttown- '2004

Ghosttown

Ghost Town (sometimes spelled Ghosttown) is the informal name of the Foster Hoover Historic District neighborhood in West Oakland, Oakland, California. The community is known for its violence and blight. The name probably originated from the two casket companies operating side by side on Filbert Street between 30th and 32nd Streets. One of these companies, "American Burial Casket Co" (sign intact) is located at 3102 Filbert Street. The second company was located at 3104 Filbert Street (no signage).[citation needed] Other explanations for the name may have originated in the times when eminent domain forced hundreds of families out of their homes and the town looked like a ghost town. Another anecdote refers to the town as having so many killings it was becoming a ghost town. It stretches from 31st Street to 35th Street in the area immediately southwest of the Macarthur Maze.

J.W.A.

"Ghetto-Realness": Krakow to South Central

A Critical Analysis:

Two popular places illustrate the astute relationship between the performance of identity, relations of spatiality and forces of global capitalism: Kazimierz, a district known as the former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, exemplifies how history, commerce and everyday life compete relentlessly over space; South Central Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, exhibits the complex interaction between geographical location, lived experience and high-rating mythological currency.

J.W.A.

"STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON"

“Jewz With Attitude”

b-schWARtz ghetto-roots: (blog-author circa: 1960)

Compton Jewish Community Center-Synagogue:

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Compton CA

Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1888. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 93,493.[2] An inner suburb of Los Angeles, Compton has a reputation of one of the most dangerous inner city/suburban areas in the United States. In the last few years, Compton has seen an increase of middle-class residnts due to its cheap houses and a decline in crime.

In 2007, the CQ Press using data from F.B.I. "Crime in the United States 2008" rated Compton as the 17th most dangerous city in America. In 2006, the Morgan Quitno Corporation rated Compton as the most dangerous city in the United States with a population of 75,000 to 99,999, but not most dangerous overall. The city is notorious for gang violence, primarily caused by the Bloods, the Crips and numerous Mexican gangs. Compton's violent reputation was popularized in the late 1980s by the rise to prominence of local gangsta rap groups Compton's Most Wanted and especially N.W.A. and Eazy-E, who released the famous albums Straight Outta Compton and Eazy-Duz-It in 1988. Since then, "Compton" has been synonymous with anything ghetto or gang-related.

On March 26 every year "Eazy-E Day" is held to give remembrance of the notorious gangster rapper Eric "Eazy-E" Wright who died on that day in 1995. He was also a member of rap group N.W.A. Compton has been referenced on numerous occasions in gangsta rap and g-funk songs, especially in the early 1990s, and so has attained an association not only with gang violence and crime, but with rap music as well. The city is known as the home of many famous rappers, such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and The Game.

Open for Bidness

post-911

liquor store open for post-911 buisness (next door to the Westerner Hotel) while on WOMP- photo dispatch assignment covering at-risk tenants in conjunction w/PNN and Just Cause/Oakland '2001

Westerner Hotel

one of David's first WOMP photo-assignments covering at-risk tenants in conjunction w/PNN and Just Cause/Oakland '2001

EDMS

Environmental Debris Management Systems

WOMP: retrival unit