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[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-30-tm-1532-story.html by CHRIS HODENFIELD 30/3/1986 Los Angeles Times] | [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-30-tm-1532-story.html by CHRIS HODENFIELD 30/3/1986 Los Angeles Times] | ||
Just because she had to give up almost everything she owned didn’t mean that Evelyn Bartlett was going to get rid of her two poodles, 15-pound cat and one-legged parakeet. She packed them up for her new life on the road. She now has them with her in Slab City. | Just because she had to give up almost everything she owned didn’t mean that Evelyn Bartlett was going to get rid of her two poodles, 15-pound cat and one-legged parakeet. She packed them up for her new life on the road. She now has them with her in Slab City. | ||
=====Portraits From Slab City: 'The Last Free Place On Earth'===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/10/02/162156270/portraits-from-slab-city-the-last-free-place-on-earth by Jordan G. Teicher 3/10/12 npr] | |||
People come to Slab City, a squatter campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California, for many reasons. But one sentiment seems to unite many of them: They want to avoid people like photojournalist Jessica Lum. That is: City people. Taxpayers. Media types. | |||
