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Tag: Avenue 54

Carlos Puma / California Watch

On Edge of Paradise, Coachella Workers Live in Grim Conditions

By Patricia Leigh Brown —

Arsenic-tainted water, raw sewage that backs up into the shower and other horrors make one end of Avenue 54, where residents of the eastern Coachella Valley’s roughly 125 illegal trailer park sites make their home, a place of grim housekeeping.

Posted on Nov 2, 2011 READ MORE | 7 COMMENTS

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Portraits of Misery in Coachella

For those who live there, life at the wrong end of Avenue 54 in Southern California’s eastern Coachella Valley is a hot, rotting hell. As you head east, the “Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners” found in abundance near the Arnold Palmer Golf Course give way to … (more)