January 7th
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 07:17PM Today I drove downtown to the fashion district to buy inventory for my business. My business is selling purses and sunglasses 'wholesale' to as many people as i can find in this city. But as for the garment/fashion district, its part bizarre, part circus, part actual wholesale/retail stores and part zoo. The heart of it is 'santee alley' and you can see a pic of it in 'urban art'. This is an alley full of handbag stores, suit outlets, perfume and sunglasses stalls and stores and clothing stores. All of these stores are run by a cornucopia- of- the -world bunch of vendors. A veritable melting pot of vendors from all over the world:Pakis, Mexicans, Jews, Indians, Koreans and Chinese. Black guys from Senegal listening to the koran in the morning and African music in the afternoon. Rasta guys chillin to the reggae mon, selling pipes and paraphernalia. And some guy from Juarez or Tijuana blasting out banda, my most disliked music ranking somewhere next to polka. Everywhere in The Alley are people bustling to buy. Blond soccer moms from Orange County who made the 'dangerous' trip downtown for a fake designer handbag, Salvadorian mothers pushing baby carts looking for socks, bored guys being dragged around by their wives and girlfriends, and me, trying to dodge everyone in my endless pursuit of inventory. Whatever. All I know is, you better not go there on a saturday because saturday is the official shopping day of the Latin American community and if you do not get there by 9 am, you will find yourself swept along in a sea of humanity and screaming babies, which, though a part of humanity, are defiantly a sub-culture unto themselves. A very loud one. I love The Alley. Its exciting, interesting and fun. And very much a part of downtown.
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