Home Sweet Home In A Trailer Park

To some it's an urban junkyard, but to it's close-knit residents -- it's a community.

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February 6, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

"There are 62 mobile home parks scattered around the city of Los Angeles, 48 of them in the San Fernando Valley. Some are borderline luxurious, with double-wide trailers, manicured lawns, swimming pools and recreation rooms. Most are modest. Few are in such bleak, industrial surroundings as the Starlite... The park sits on a stretch of Branford Street lined with junkyards. Broken sidewalks marked with faded graffiti and a weary wood fence greet visitors at the Branford Street entrance. There's not a patch of grass in sight. Across the narrow street, a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire edges a sprawling dump."

Thanks to Tom Collins

FULL STORY: A Home Sweet Home Nestled Amid Junkyards

Wednesday, February 6, 2002 in The Los Angeles Times

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