Newsstand where Slash worked

During his struggling early years in Los Angeles, before Guns N' Roses changed everything, Slash worked at a newsstand in the Fairfax District to survive. He was a teenager living hand-to-mouth in Hollywood, sleeping in parking lots and on friends' couches when no floor was available, hustling whatever odd jobs he could find while playing guitar obsessively and chasing the band he could feel forming around him.

The newsstand job is a small footnote in a larger story of genuine hardship. Slash — born Saul Hudson in London in 1965, raised partly in the Fairfax neighbourhood — grew up in close proximity to the music industry without any of its comforts. His grandmother played guitar; his mother designed clothes for rock stars; but none of that insulated him from the reality of being a broke teenager on the LA streets in the early 1980s. He reportedly lost the job at some point and found himself briefly homeless as a result.

The specific newsstand is no longer identifiable — the Fairfax District has changed considerably, and newsstands as a format have largely disappeared from LA streets. The coordinates place you in the neighbourhood where Slash's teenage years unfolded: the same blocks where he'd later return as one of the most recognisable guitarists in the world.