We used to have a business here, “Wizard’s Welding and Beauty Salon”.
ETA- there was also a “curio shop” down the street, but they never sold a curio. Run by two ancient Mafia guys. They did sell cigarettes, cigars, soda, and in back they ran illegal gambling card games, mostly with other really old men, and also, as I found out, anything you needed done, legal or not, if they could do it, they would. Literally an all purpose store. I went there when I bought a motorcycle, had given the guy the money but he didn’t sign the title, and disappeared, to ask what to do, they said “bring the title, Frank is a notary!” Um, ok. How much? “Nothing, we do this for you, a favor, yes?”
What a world it was back then, I do think things are better now, it was very violent here and is not anymore, but I do kinda miss the disorganization and the way the world was disconnected so you could disappear, go somewhere else and be someone else, even if I didn’t personally want to do that. Not sure what to call it but it was sort of a reassuring feeling.
We used to have a business here, “Wizard’s Welding and Beauty Salon”.
ETA- there was also a “curio shop” down the street, but they never sold a curio. Run by two ancient Mafia guys. They did sell cigarettes, cigars, soda, and in back they ran illegal gambling card games, mostly with other really old men, and also, as I found out, anything you needed done, legal or not, if they could do it, they would. Literally an all purpose store. I went there when I bought a motorcycle, had given the guy the money but he didn’t sign the title, and disappeared, to ask what to do, they said “bring the title, Frank is a notary!” Um, ok. How much? “Nothing, we do this for you, a favor, yes?”
What a world it was back then, I do think things are better now, it was very violent here and is not anymore, but I do kinda miss the disorganization and the way the world was disconnected so you could disappear, go somewhere else and be someone else, even if I didn’t personally want to do that. Not sure what to call it but it was sort of a reassuring feeling.