From "Nuestro Pueblo - Los Angeles, City of Romance" Copyright 1940, by Charles H. Owens and Joseph F. Seewerker CHURCH OF THE SLUMS Near Ninth and Soto Streets in Los Angeles, dilapidated shacks are disappearing from acres of land. New buildings, attractive if modest in size, replace them in what might be termed a slum-clearance project. But one building of the section stands untouched, the little Mexican church of Boyle Avenue. Claretian fathers have ministered for a quarter-century to the poor of this district. At first, they had no church. But there were charitable folk about, and willing hands. The Simon Brick Company, the Los Angeles Brick Company, donated materials. Mexicans of the congregation moulded bricks. Presently, Saint Elizabeth’s Church rose in a tiny mission-style building with cool, inviting interior, haven of the troubled and the devout.