The unconventional community of San Aliso Creek “What is a bum?” asks Jo, a short, animated, talkative man of thirty whose troubled life has included a stint in prison for possession of illegal drugs, a …
Entrance. “They were going to tear the Balboa down and put in a parking garage.”
Posted June 4, 1987
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