Dean Store
In 1999, Dean was the leather child of LA artisan Danny Dean Davis when he sought to find a wide leather watch band that had both vintage and modern sensibilities. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention and it spurred Davis on to creating an entire line of leather goods using construction techniques like the whip stitch band of the past and melding them with fashion forward design and color.
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Pull My DaisySeven years running and the one of oldest stores in Sunset Junction, Pull My Daisy boutique offers playful, couture punk fashion for men and women. Owner Sarah Dale, spotlights local designers and artists, complete with a sex toy section. All jewelry and t-shirts are made locally. Currently, she’s selling two female [...]
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Bar KeeperWhen out with my seventy-eight year old grandfather, I used to be embarrassed when he would send his martini to be remade not once, not twice but sometimes three times to get the perfectly chilled concoction of the gods. After an afternoon at Bar Keeper in Sunset Junction with owner Joe Keeper,
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IntelligentsiaJust when you think you’ve mastered Starbuck coffee lingo, Sunset Junction’s Intelligentsia coffee shop introduces a graduate level of vocabulary including words like chemex, single-origin Clover brews and ristretto. A Chicago based company, Intelligentsia prides itself on using only coffee beans in season (just like your local farmers’ market produce), on-site roasting and boycotting [...]
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The Good Luck BarYour fortune will be looking up after a visit to the Good Luck bar, a long time staple of Sunset Junction nightlife. The Good Luck is a red cacophony of Chinese artifacts and paper lanterns (fitting as red is the color of luck in Chinese culture). The bar opens up to opium [...]
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