PORTFOLIO FIVE:
MOSSWOOD
Teddy's, Thirty-Fourth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, 2006.
People from the old neighborhood
Thirty-Fourth and Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oh! Teddy's! This was Teddy's Market when I was a kid. We loved it there. You know, this guy, an Asian guy, came into the store the other day, and he said he'd lived in the neighborhood growing up.
And I said, “Oh did you know Teddy's market?” And he said, “Yes!” And we just laughed and talked about how great it was—you know it was always better then—before was so much better. I love meeting people from the old neighborhood. It makes me so happy.
RIP Marcial, gone January 2006, W. MacArthur Boulevard, 2007.
You sometimes get to say hello to your neighbors.
Thirty-Sixth Street between Webster and Telegraph
Nobody walks anywhere in LA. You walk from your kitchen table to the garage, you get in your car, and then you drive. . . . And that's not true here, because most of the houses don't have attached garages! So at least you have to walk from where you parked your car to get to your house. And in that walking, you sometimes get to say hello to your neighbors.
