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Log In. Please note: This feature is available only to subscribers; make sure you're logged in if you want to follow a story. Log In Subscribe. In a tattoo shop, a needle spat ink, guided by a diligent hand.
A steady trickle of some hard-up men and women made their way in and out of the corner store, some from the nearby half-remodeled motel that has two names and a reputation as a hub for prostitutes and johns. On his stoop, a man watched his dog nose around the grass out front, short steps from Santa Rosa Avenue, which grumbled with twilight traffic.
The building used to house a clock shop. So, yeah, I like it. It suits me. The traffic, and its brief cessations, is the soundtrack to a routine that most of its regular inhabitants, the residents and business people, consider satisfying, at times challenging, invigorating, even inspiring.
The pork-centric restaurant sits on the corner of Santa Rosa Avenue and Sebastopol Avenue, which turns into Mill Street on the east side of the thoroughfare, and faces an auto repair shop.
