Miracle Mile Lunch Trucks examines the competition between “permanent” businesses and food trucks in one neighborhood in Los Angeles:
For food truck lovers — and there are many in this city — Wilshire Boulevard near South Curson Avenue is a mecca, distinguished by the sheer number of upscale trucks it attracts. On Wednesday about 1 p.m., there were nearly a dozen. Across the street from the La Brea Tar Pits, the India Jones Chow Truck, Mrs. Beasley’s Dessert Truck and Fishlips Sushi were all crowded into half a block.
For restaurant owners, the trucks are competition that take away business and hog precious metered parking spaces. Some shop owners are said to have called the police on trucks that languish beyond the allowed hour at a meter.
It sounds delicious—but I can understand why “permanent” business owners are threatened. On the other hand (I used to work in this area), I wish the permanent businesses were tastier.
Read Your Brain on Computers and see if it doesn’t resonate just a bit.
I had a terrarium when I was a kid that made me quite happy. While reading Terrariums Make a Comback, I wondered if perhaps these were the perfect cubicle toy: easy to care for, pleasing to look at, and infinitely interesting. Slideshow for terrariums here and ideas for making one here.