Downtown LA Record Store Owner Has Curated the Same Staff Recommendation Wall for Eighteen Years – Screw the News
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Downtown LA Record Store Owner Has Curated the Same Staff Recommendation Wall for Eighteen Years – Screw the News

Handwritten personal recommendations become trusted alternatives to algorithmic music suggestions Downtown LA Record Store Owner Has Curated the Same Staff Recommendation Wall for Eighteen Years LOS ANGELES – A beloved downtown record store’s staff recommendation wall, featuring handwritten notes accompanying favorite vinyl selections, has developed such devoted following among neighborhood regulars over eighteen years that …

Koreatown Karaoke Bar’s Sound Engineer Has Worked the Same Booth for Twenty-Two Years and Knows Every Regular’s Song – Screw the News
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Koreatown Karaoke Bar’s Sound Engineer Has Worked the Same Booth for Twenty-Two Years and Knows Every Regular’s Song – Screw the News

Two decades of attentive observation produce anticipation accurate enough to queue songs before performers arrive Koreatown Karaoke Bar’s Sound Engineer Has Worked the Same Booth for Twenty-Two Years and Knows Every Regular’s Song KOREATOWN, Calif. – A longtime Koreatown karaoke bar sound engineer has developed such an extraordinary familiarity with regular customers that he reportedly …

Pasadena Antique Shop Owner Has Tracked Every Item’s Provenance By Memory for Thirty-Five Years – Screw the News
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Pasadena Antique Shop Owner Has Tracked Every Item’s Provenance By Memory for Thirty-Five Years – Screw the News

Three and a half decades of attentive dealing produce recall spanning detailed histories of countless items Pasadena Antique Shop Owner Has Tracked Every Item’s Provenance By Memory for Thirty-Five Years PASADENA, Calif. – A longtime Pasadena antique shop owner has developed such a remarkable memory for individual item histories that he reportedly can recount the …

Long Beach Diner’s Regulars Have Maintained a Sunday Morning Chess Tournament for Nineteen Years Straight – Screw the News
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Long Beach Diner’s Regulars Have Maintained a Sunday Morning Chess Tournament for Nineteen Years Straight – Screw the News

A rotating bracket system helps an informal weekly tradition outlast three separate changes in diner ownership Long Beach Diner’s Regulars Have Maintained a Sunday Morning Chess Tournament for Nineteen Years Straight LONG BEACH, Calif. – A neighborhood diner’s informal Sunday morning chess tournament, organized entirely by a rotating group of dedicated regulars, has continued uninterrupted …

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Surf Shop Owner’s Handwritten Wax Recipe Notebook Survived a House Fire That Destroyed Everything Else – Surfing LA

A fireproof safe accidentally preserves the only surviving copy of a beloved shop’s proprietary formula Surf Shop Owner’s Handwritten Wax Recipe Notebook Survived a House Fire That Destroyed Everything Else OCEANSIDE, Calif. – A beloved local surf shop’s proprietary wax formula notebook, the only surviving record of a recipe refined across three decades, miraculously survived …

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Longboard Club’s Fifty-Year Anniversary Reveals a Membership Roster Spanning Four Generations of the Same Families – Surfing LA

Founding families’ descendants now represent four generations on the active roster of this recreational club Longboard Club’s Fifty-Year Anniversary Reveals a Membership Roster Spanning Four Generations of the Same Families SAN ONOFRE, Calif. – As a longtime local longboard club celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, club historians reviewing membership records have discovered that several …

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Pier Fishing Regular’s Encyclopedic Knowledge of Tide Patterns Has Made Him the Unofficial Weather Oracle of His Pier – Surfing LA

Three decades of personal tracking produce forecasts anglers trust more than official weather service predictions Pier Fishing Regular’s Encyclopedic Knowledge of Tide Patterns Has Made Him the Unofficial Weather Oracle of His Pier HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – A pier fishing regular who has studied local tide and weather patterns for over thirty years has developed …

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Beachfront Bar’s Regulars Have Maintained a Sunset Toast Tradition Every Single Evening for Over a Decade – Surfing LA

An informal gesture becomes an unbroken decade-long nightly ritual surviving multiple changes in bar ownership Beachfront Bar’s Regulars Have Maintained a Sunset Toast Tradition Every Single Evening for Over a Decade PISMO BEACH, Calif. – A beachfront bar’s core group of regulars has maintained an unbroken tradition of gathering for a collective sunset toast every …