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  1. The Essentials

    When I took this photo back in 2016, it was a combination coffee/Chinese food restaurant: they sold coffee in the mornings and Chinese food for lunch and dinner. The owner had previously run a separate coffee shop (The Bean Counter, IIRC) in the same shopping center, then combined the two businesses to save on rent. It was one of our go-to Chinese takeout sources, and I’d sometimes grab coffee in the mornings if I was in the area or on my way somewhere in that direction.

    The old coffee location sat vacant for a few years until a bakery (with coffee on the side) moved in. Amusingly, the bakery — with is still there today — also chose a pun-based name: Redondough (as in Redondo Beach).

    In early 2020 — and I mean early, either January or February — they were offered a really nice buyout price by someone who wanted to turn-key convert it overnight to a Hawaiian restaurant. I imagine when mid-March rolled around and the initial Covid lockdown started, they were extremely relieved to have accepted it!

    I never did get around to trying the Hawaiian place, even for takeout. Eventually it was taken over by a Hawaiian-style fast food chain.

    Photo taken February 27, 2016 and originally posted on my Instagram account a few days later with this title, but no commentary.

    #coffee #InternetCafe #RedondoBeach #restaurant #SeeAlsoInstagram #signs #WiFi

    https://hyperborea.org/journal/2024/05/the-essentials/

  2. The Essentials

    When I took this photo back in 2016, it was a combination coffee/Chinese food restaurant: they sold coffee in the mornings and Chinese food for lunch and dinner. The owner had previously run a separate coffee shop (The Bean Counter, IIRC) in the same shopping center, then combined the two businesses to save on rent. It was one of our go-to Chinese takeout sources, and I’d sometimes grab coffee in the mornings if I was in the area or on my way somewhere in that direction.

    The old coffee location sat vacant for a few years until a bakery (with coffee on the side) moved in. Amusingly, the bakery — with is still there today — also chose a pun-based name: Redondough (as in Redondo Beach).

    In early 2020 — and I mean early, either January or February — they were offered a really nice buyout price by someone who wanted to turn-key convert it overnight to a Hawaiian restaurant. I imagine when mid-March rolled around and the initial Covid lockdown started, they were extremely relieved to have accepted it!

    I never did get around to trying the Hawaiian place, even for takeout. Eventually it was taken over by a Hawaiian-style fast food chain.

    Photo taken February 27, 2016 and originally posted on my Instagram account a few days later with this title, but no commentary.

    #coffee #InternetCafe #RedondoBeach #restaurant #SeeAlsoInstagram #signs #WiFi

    https://hyperborea.org/journal/2024/05/the-essentials/

  3. The Essentials

    When I took this photo back in 2016, it was a combination coffee/Chinese food restaurant: they sold coffee in the mornings and Chinese food for lunch and dinner. The owner had previously run a separate coffee shop (The Bean Counter, IIRC) in the same shopping center, then combined the two businesses to save on rent. It was one of our go-to Chinese takeout sources, and I’d sometimes grab coffee in the mornings if I was in the area or on my way somewhere in that direction.

    The old coffee location sat vacant for a few years until a bakery (with coffee on the side) moved in. Amusingly, the bakery — with is still there today — also chose a pun-based name: Redondough (as in Redondo Beach).

    In early 2020 — and I mean early, either January or February — they were offered a really nice buyout price by someone who wanted to turn-key convert it overnight to a Hawaiian restaurant. I imagine when mid-March rolled around and the initial Covid lockdown started, they were extremely relieved to have accepted it!

    I never did get around to trying the Hawaiian place, even for takeout. Eventually it was taken over by a Hawaiian-style fast food chain.

    Photo taken February 27, 2016 and originally posted on my Instagram account a few days later with this title, but no commentary.

    #coffee #InternetCafe #RedondoBeach #restaurant #SeeAlsoInstagram #signs #WiFi

    https://hyperborea.org/journal/2024/05/the-essentials/

  4. Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named Buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington.

    #EndAlz
    #WorldAlzheimersMonth
    #DogsofMastodon

  5. Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington. All power to the #DogsOfMastodon!