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MID-CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- West of downtown Los Angeles sits a small village that seems supernaturally set apart from the city noise. St. Elmo Village is a hidden treasure named after the ...
Roderick Sykes at work on one of his murals in an undated photo. Sykes, the co-founder of St. Elmo Village, died at 75. (Jacqueline Alexander-Sykes) St. Elmo Village co-founder Roderick Sykes, whose ...