Places, a Partial List
  • Advance Food Market
  • AFJ Investments
  • Albertson's supermarket, Venice Blvd/Culver
  • Best Buy, Culver City
  • Broadway Federal Bank, Inglewood
  • Broadway Federal Bank, Wilshire
  • Café 50s, Lincoln Blvd.
  • Café 50s, Santa Monica Blvd.
  • Café Beverly Hills
  • Cafe Santa Monica
  • Chase, Venice/Culver
  • Costco, Marina del Rey
  • CVS, Obama/La Brea
  • Denny's Restaurant, Lincoln
  • Denny's Restaurant, San Gabriel
  • Emil’s Hardware, Robertson Blvd.
  • Friends of Israel Jewish Museum, Beverly Hills
  • Fry's Electronics, El Segundo
  • Haendiges Plumbing, Whittier
  • Home Depot, Hyde Park
  • Home Depot, Slauson/Baldwyn Hills
  • Hop Li restaurant, Pico Blvd, WLA
  • Jesus Auto Repair, Adams Blvd
  • Jon's Market, Hollywood
  • Jon's Market, Hollywood (other, now closed?)
  • Kaiser Permanente, Cadillac
  • Kaiser Permanente, Wateridge Medical Offices
  • Kanary Insurance, Culver City
  • Karabagh Bread, Hollywood
  • Koreatown Plaza Grocery Store
  • LAPD, Southwest Division
  • LAPD, Venice Blvd
  • LAPL, Baldwyn branch
  • LAPL, Palms branch
  • LAPL, Robertson branch
  • Launderland Coin-Op Laundry
  • Lowe’s, Mid-Cities
  • Malaysia Airlines, El Segundo
  • Malaysia Airlines, LAX
  • Mi Alma, Hollywood
  • Mitsuwa market
  • Nekter Juice Bar, Newport beach
  • Norm’s restaurant, Lincoln
  • Norm’s restaurant, Pico Blvd.
  • Out of Asia, Culver City
  • Out of Asia, La Brea
  • P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, La Cienega
  • P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Santa Monica
  • Print Palace, SM
  • R Ranch Market
  • Ralphs, Obama Blvd
  • Ralphs, Venice Blvd
  • Ross, Venice Blvd
  • Santa Monica Studios
  • Sawtelle Kitchen
  • Shamshiri Restaurant
  • Staples, Visalia
  • Staples, Wilshire
  • Star Market, WLA
  • Superior Grocers, Baldwyn Hills
  • T-Mobile, Venice Blvd
  • Tehran Market, Santa Monica
  • TJ’s, La Cienega
  • TJ’s, Culver City
  • TJ’s, Santa Monica
  • Toyota, Culver City
  • U-Haul, Obama
  • UCLA Research Library
  • UCLA School of Dentistry, Lincoln Blvd.
  • USC School of Dentistry
  • USPS, Motor Ave.
  • USPS, Washington Blvd
  • Wells Fargo, Fairfax Branch
  • Wells Fargo, La Brea/Baldwyn branch
  • Wells Fargo, Palms branch
  • Wells Fargo, Pico branch
  • Western Mixers Produce and Nuts, Inc., Glendale

 

I call them: "The Movers (and Shakers)":

People in and around our apartment complex who, over the last fourteen years, seem to dedicate themselves to misbehaving. Every neighbor among them moved in after me.They are listed here in no particular order.

  • "Our Lady of the Perpetual Inspections" aka Ms. Tiffany Anderson (landlord)
  • "The Lady Lurk"
  • "Saint Bernard"
  • "Brother Cantinflas"
  • Mrs. "Decibel w.o. Content" aka "Mrs. Saved by the Bell" aka "Mrs. 'Bell" aka l'Épicière
  • "The Banshee(s)"
  • "Miss Mumbles"
  • Tyson "the Corn-fed Golem" (a Shaker)
  • Tyson's associate #1 (a Shaker)
  • Tyson's little boy (a Shaker)
  • "Jackboots Velasquez" (Gadiel's wife)
  • "Tub-thumper" (lives 2 houses from me)
  • LAPD Officer "Tuco" (gave his last name as Ramirez during a visit)
  • Assorted dogs (7 at last count, collectively known to me as "the Damnation Bow-wows)
  • The following family, at one time each occupying 1 of the 3 other bungalows in complex:
    1. "Baba Outrom" and companion (bungalow across from mine)
    2. Ana [last name unknown] former neighbor, (daughter of "Baba Outrom's companion," herself companion of "Karenin")
    3. Miguel Avalos (son of Baba Outrom's companion)

 

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