S&M Liquor

As we continued up Main Street out of the city limits through Lincoln Heights we passed the LA river and then spotted a mural of the Virgin Mary and S&M Liquors. We had to stop. When we pulled into the parking lot, we immediately met Rico. He asked me if I’d seen the fire down the block and warned that this was one of LA’s craziest corners. Before he had even finished his sentence, a woman in cut-off jeans shorts with stringy bleached blonde hair shot out running across the street while screaming at the top of her lungs at a man who has picking up the pace as she gained on him.

“See?” said Rico.

As we drove a few blocks further, we passed a wonderful, stoic, smiling older man selling peanuts and rainbow umbrella hats.

He smiled at us when we drove by.