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Fuck that guy.
Scientific name is volclonus flatbillus.
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They have a second location Suahiro Mini in Chinatown. But still sad. I like that place.My favorite Japanese restaurant is being evicted
Historic Suehiro Cafe is being evicted. Is rail development harming ethnic communities?
Suehiro Cafe in downtown L.A.'s Little Tokyo is the latest legacy business falling to rail development and gentrification.
I've been going to Suehiro since the mid-Eighties. Ate there last week, probably for the last time. Fuck that greedy douche landlord, who wants to replace a beloved part of the community with - get this - a weed store. Because we don't have enough of those.
Meanwhile, 40 years ago:Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was 'going to hell.' Are we there yet?
Three decades after a national publication probed the city's ills, we gathered a panel of Angelenos to ponder the age-old question: Is Los Angeles hell on earth?
Never liked bad religion. Feel like every song sounds the same.Meanwhile, 40 years ago:
You should name your band Hell and name your debut album How Could Bad Religion Be Any Worse?
Gosh, I gotta say, you always come in here with such a ray of sunshine and positivity. Always such uplifting posts. You really light up the place.I've been going to Suehiro since the mid-Eighties. Ate there last week, probably for the last time. Fuck that greedy douche landlord, who wants to replace a beloved part of the community with - get this - a weed store. Because we don't have enough of those.
65 Restaurants closed in 2023/will be closed by January 31, 2024. Tough city. In 2017 or 2018 Jonathan Gold was asking whether there were too many restaurants in LA. Seems like there's more now.My favorite Japanese restaurant is being evicted
Historic Suehiro Cafe is being evicted. Is rail development harming ethnic communities?
Suehiro Cafe in downtown L.A.'s Little Tokyo is the latest legacy business falling to rail development and gentrification.
Yeah, but 50 years in an HIstoric District? To be replaced by a dispensary? To make the place like Melrose?
Historic preservation is too often thrown out in the name of "progress"Yeah, but 50 years in an HIstoric District? To be replaced by a dispensary? To make the place like Melrose?
Next to go will probably be Fugetsu-do since 1903.
Fugetsu-Do: The Story of an LA Icon
Founded in 1903, the family-owned Fugetsu-Do is renowned for its traditional mochi and modern confections like Peanut Butter Mochi, Korey's Chocolate Mochi, and Rainbow Dango.www.discoverlosangeles.com
I'm a historic preservationist so these things (forcing out historic establishments) bothers me.
again, reconfirming the chithole LA is...Yeah, but 50 years in an HIstoric District? To be replaced by a dispensary? To make the place like Melrose?
Next to go will probably be Fugetsu-do, just down the block.
Fugetsu-Do: The Story of an LA Icon
Founded in 1903, the family-owned Fugetsu-Do is renowned for its traditional mochi and modern confections like Peanut Butter Mochi, Korey's Chocolate Mochi, and Rainbow Dango.
I'm a historic preservationist so these things (forcing out historic establishments) bothers me.
Think that’s a combination of things. Hangover factor from the pandemic, slowdown of the local economy due to the strikes (I know I’ve barely eaten out this past year when I used to multiple times a week) and the transition to DoorDash/uber eats. For all the talk of brick and mortar restaurants competing with street vendors and food trucks I think ghost kitchens are a much more existential threat to them.
I love LA, precisely because of places like Little Tokyo and establishments like Suehiro and Fugetsu-do.
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I grew up around graffiti culture and have friends who are known internationally for their work and have launched real careers and businesses through their roots in street art. But nothing infuriates me more than people who vandalize nature. That and litter.I love LA, precisely because of places like Little Tokyo and establishments like Suehiro and Fugetsu-do.
Little Tokyo has grown in popularity the past ten years, especially with young people. But Little Tokyo is in the historic heart of LA and just a few blocks from Skid Row. Putting a dispensary there is exactly the wrong thing to do to develop the area. People go there for dining and shopping. The dispensary will only attract more skid row residents into the area IMHO.
I'm not saying LA is perfect, just that it isn't so bad. There's a public artwork a block away from there that features my family.
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Unfortunately it had become a homeless camp. You can see the bronzer pillar just right of the portable toilets, between the gingko trees.
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They've been cleared out. We were there last night and the area was fenced off. There was graffiti on the artwork.
Toriumi Plaza temporarily closing to transition homeless to housing
Growing homeless encampment prompted the closure for repairs
Speaking of graffiti. You know how that is one of my pet peeves when I go hiking? I met the guy from Sierra Club/State Parks who is in charge of removing graffiti. He was very philosophical about it, advising me not to get angry. "Humans, animals really, have felt the need to leave their mark since time immemorial. You just remove it. They might come back once and try again but then you remove it again and eventually they give up."
This is what he uses and is now going in my hiking pack -
You can complain, or you can act.
How do they feel about graffiti on artwork? Like on a bronze memorial sculpture?
