The Cantina bustled on Friday. Cinco de Mayo would rock Saturday and parties rolled all over the city and especially in the Hispanic neighborhoods. Los Angeles grew to almost 50 percent Hispanic, and Wilmington, just south of San Pedro grew to 90 percent Latino. It would glisten on Saturday night for the party. Sidebar: Saturday […]
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Marko blasted back to the Cantina. Nothing bothered him more than a brother getting his bike stolen. This brother, Bart, was a big stout machinist union member who had fallen on hard times. He was once well off, but a nasty divorce and the 2008 collapse left his engineering business in shambles, so he returned
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Marko rubbed his eyes. It was almost 3:00 a.m., a bastard of a time to be awake. He turned to the phone base system and pressed the button for messages. He recognized Dr. Feng’s number and called him back. “Come in, over?” Dr. Feng said. “You called the Cantina about a girl?” Marko asked. “Yes,
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The full moon crested the harbor like an evil glow over Transylvania. The hue from the Los Angeles sky foreground turned the color of the perfect globe a dense, almost Harley Orange. It didn’t exude the aura of freedom and chrome, but maybe a darker spirit like Halloween. There was something eerie about the night.
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Friday night happy hour time was in high gear as the sun began to set over the Los Angeles Harbor. The Cantina parking lot was packed with bikes, longshoremen’s trucks, and girls who rolled over from Long Beach, three bridges away with the dreaded Terminal Island in between. Halloween approached and so did the evil
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A lull hung over the Cantina starting in March. Maybe it was the calm before the summer storm. Folks came and departed like clockwork, as if on tranquil drugs. They drank their booze, ate nachos and shrimp enchiladas, and paid their tabs. No drama. No kidnapped women or unusual sex on the docks or in
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