What it was like
The murals along this corridor argue with each other, and they have been arguing longer than most of the galleries downtown have existed. No guidebook has ever gotten this neighborhood right, and none of them will.
On the second Saturday of the month it all opens up. La Bodega — a warehouse from 1917 that once held the Bank of Italy — throws its thirty studios open to whoever wanders through the door. Bread and Salt takes the installations nobody else will hang. The smaller rooms along Logan show work by artists who live in the same zip code as their canvases, which is precisely why none of it was made for a La Jolla boutique and why none of it will ever end up in one.
Getting in costs nothing. The tacos do, and they are worth every dollar you hand over.
If you have never walked Barrio Logan on a second Saturday, you have not met the most honest neighborhood in this city yet. Go meet it.