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Save The Smell...

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Mattie
10 years ago

keep the music going !!

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Matt Hutchinson
10 years ago

Thank you Jim for so many amazing shows. Too sad to imagine downtown without the Smell.

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tina
10 years ago

save the smell.

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Jack Sills
10 years ago

Save the smell

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Tessa Aldridge
10 years ago

we need it!!!

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Matt Hellriegel
10 years ago

The smell has been my main source of inspiration for basically everything I do since I heard about it back in 2008 ...and I live in New Zealand

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Laura ginger
10 years ago

SAVE THE SMELL

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Anonymous
10 years ago

For a parking lot? That's stupid

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Mariah Espinal
10 years ago

Keep it up!!! Don't knock it down :/

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Robert
10 years ago

All ages spaces are too few and far between.

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Abbra Price
10 years ago

SAVE THE SMELL

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Alex Maciel
10 years ago

I've been going to the smell since the very beginning and have seen some of the best up and coming artists of the last almost twenty years. I've helped put together shows and record swaps. I've met some of my closest friends because of this space. It's a space for music, art, food, culture, freedom that welcomes everybody no matter who you are or where you come from. It's more then four walls. It's a spirit that can't be broken or halted. It's a safe haven for those that feel like they don't fit in elsewhere. Young people need a place to be creative and find influence without limitations. It not only helps those that attend on a regular basis but the comunity that surrounds it as well. Having many benefits for different organizations too many mention. It also helped out people going through hard times directly by letting them work/help out. All this without charging an arm and a leg. A place like this comes around once in a lifetime which makes this petition that much more important. This place needs to exist because it has to exist. It makes our wonderful city that much more interesting and cool. The smell was the first place on downtown that made it cool and ok to be there altogether. It was there way before all the expensive rents and fancy food. It was the reason why artist started to pay attention to an otherwise forgotten area. The arts district, the central market, the art walk, the renufication of Broadway, and all the museums owe it all to the one that made the area cool again. This place is THE SMELL. Please reconsider your plans to demolish this building. This is more then four walls. This is our lives!

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dylan
10 years ago

We should all put on the effort to register the smell as a California landmark.

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Cynthia Santana-Ramirez
10 years ago

Some of the best moments of my life happened at The Smell.

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Jos McKain
10 years ago

Save dt spaces

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Natasha Jacobs
10 years ago

Don't destroy culture.

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Leilani Jimenez
10 years ago

The Smell makes access available to celebrate the arts, especially for the youth. Demolition of a historic building for the profits of a parking company? And right as LA gathers to celebrate Lummis Day. This is our space, as a community sharing endlessly valuable experiences through music. This is The Smell.

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Kirk Morris
10 years ago

Keep it going!!!

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John Atkinson
10 years ago

World Heritage Site

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Gannon Tanji
10 years ago

The Smell has been an integral aspect of the underground music culture for which Los Angeles is known. The inclusiveness of the venue fosters a community of artists of all ages, which is seldom seen at larger establishments. To remove such a landmark venue would be an immense loss not only to the music community, but to the Neapolitan quality of the city. I sincerely insist that the city take measures to preserve locations of historic value such as The Smell, especially when there is plenty of land for development elsewhere in the confines of the city.