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| Excerpt from DIRTY LAUNDRY |
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This part of Koreatown had been one of the hot zones
of the Rodney King riots, where Latinos and Koreans had
gone to war...and while I didn't know the particulars, I
knew what it felt like to be caught between a rock and a
hard place and how I still bore the scars from the struggle.
So did the neighborhood. The Korean grocer up on Beverly
struggled to keep his store's Asian identity in a neighborhood
that was increasingly Latino. The Japanese wait staff at
Noshi Sushi struggled to learn yet another language, and
the Hallelujah Auto Sound store was just plain struggling
in a down economic market. But what could they expect in
a neighborhood whose very architecture clashed- down-on-their-luck
Chandleresque apartments at war with weary Craftsmen bungalows
and crumbling sixties complexes, the latter infiltrating
the neighborhood during one of the city's many misguided
tear-down crazes.
If you would like to read more of Dirty Laundry, check it
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