I live in the ‘hood. I love it. Affordable housing, good bus service, and lots of useful businesses.
Some of the businesses aren’t just useful, they’re incredibly creative. One that I’ve wanted to highlight for a long time is Triple Cheap Junk Hauling and Barbershop. Yes, a combination junk hauling service and barbarshop. Now, you might think that these businesses simply share a storefront, from which both services are made available. But this is an entirely mobile operation:
The front half is a barbershop; the back half is a truck bed for hauling junk. Make your own mullet joke.
Another creative business combination (photos courtesy of A9’s drive-bys) is the bridal shop down the street. It’s right next to an auto parts store (Schuck’s). Guess which business makes copies of keys?
That’s right. The bridal shop, not the auto parts store, is the business that makes keys. They also do tuxedos, so if you need to look sharp and give others access to your property, they’ve got you covered.
um…that’s a bmw…crop it out and change it to a 89 taurus and i’ll call it a hood, too!
There isn’t any affordable housing in the ‘hood here. There isn’t any affordable housing anywhere, and I’m not even it California.
The bridal shop would also be good if you need to look sharp and gain accedss to other people’s property (unlawfully, of course).
Hehe. True enough - the housing is hardly affordable in absolute terms, just cheaper than elsewhere in the city.
[...] Inspired by Justin Baeder’s Creative Businesses in the Hood, I’m giving you all a shiny post about weird things in the Valley (El Valle de Locura, the Narcissist would say.) On Saturday morning, I grabbed my camera to take some long awaited pictures of creative Valley businesses, and along the way I found some Valley weirdness. [...]