Skid Row Beat

With honesty and flair, Loren Christensen offers a rare curbside glimpse into the gritty urban world of skid row. In doing so, he captures a bit of Americana that is quickly disappearing as the flophouses, liquor stores and pawnshops are pushed out to make room for art studios, coffee houses and trendy eateries. In this colorful tribute to the cops who have worked skid row, as well as the characters who have lived there, Christenses preserves for all time that place where, for decades, man's inhumanity to man revealed itself in a million sordid stories.