#shopping-centers

#shopping-centers

"Back in the day, this place was packed, you'd see people everywhere. Now, a lot of those shops are gone, and you can feel the emptiness. It's like the heart of it is missing."

My mother once chased an unruly grocery cart that held me in its front basket as it rolled through the parking lot of the Victorian-looking strip mall at the corner of San Gabriel Boulevard and New Avenue.