I lived at The Seville Apartments in this neighborhood in 1995-96 and worked at The Blue Mirror restaurant, before the revitalization of U st corridor and 14th St.It's still a little gritty, but nothing like it was back in the day of The Butterfly Club,when members of local law enforcement affectionately referred to this area as "The Combat Zone"...
While now an Indian vegetarian eatery, this door was once the entrance way to Las Cruces Restaurant, where I did a tour of duty as a waiter back in the mid nineties...