Via 1947 Project/Esotouric, the same people to helped publicize the situation over Bukowski’s bunglalow:

URGENT- Craby Joe’s, LA’s Last Skid Row Bar, to close forever on Christmas
Eve

WHAT: A wake for Skid Row’s last bar, Craby Joe’s
WHERE: Craby Joe’s, 656 South Main Street, Los Angeles
WHEN: December 24, 10pm till last call

LOS ANGELES- As Musso & Frank is a living testament to Hollywood’s golden
age, so Craby Joe’s is to downtown Los Angeles’ Main Street tenderloin.
Both are family-owned, and both have contributed greatly to the social
culture of their neighborhoods. At the corner of 7th and Main since 1933,
Craby Joe’s will close it doors for good on Christmas Eve, 2007. A group of
local historians and preservationists, including representatives from
Esotouric and 1947project, will gather at 10pm on December 24 to share what
Hemingway wrote of the custom in his beloved Spain, “La Penultima–the next
to last drink,” for the last one is too bitter a thought.

Craby Joe’s has served as a watering hole to John Fante, Charles Bukowski,
and many other great souls who drew from this well of characters and
atmosphere from the wrong side of the tracks. Its now-dead neon sign blinked
gaily in the opening credits for “Barfly,” and its pickled eggs were the
day’s only protein for too many.

Gentrification has come to Skid Row, and now Craby Joe’s, the final holdout
among the dozens of bars that once lined Main Street, is being shoved into
history’s dustbin. Its neighbor the Cecil Hotel, already on the skids when
Raymond Chandler described it in early short stories, is now a
self-described boutique hotel, a destination for the discerning European
traveler. This fragile coral reef of artists, galleries (the hub of Art
Walk is two blocks away at 5th and Main at Bert Green’s), SRO hotels and
their long time residents will suffer a severe blow with the close of Craby
Joe’s, and its fans and friends will miss the unpretentious neighborhood bar
and its gruff-but-lovable co-owner Jenny.