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JUNE 2015 ISSUE 10 THE INSIDER GUIDE TO DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES PAGE 4 EAST SIDE MOTO BABES Meet the women who ride LA’s perilous roads on the meanest machines in town. Kort Havens & Logan Havens Havens Kort Photographed by: Photographed FISHERMAN’S OUTLET DOWNTOWN MAP KING EDDY SALOON A marketplace for seafood enthusiasts who don’t PAGE 10 The bar seems to have struck a balance between hold back when getting down and dirty with finger its predecessors: the 80s dance club, the skid row lickin’ goodness. EVENT CALENDAR dive, the speakeasy. PAGE 6 PAGE 19 PAGE 8 WWW.LADOWNTOWNER.COM 2 3 FROM THE EDITOR TYPE LONG LIVE Yo Santosa DOWNTOWN PAINT THE TOWN DOWNTOWN Written & Photographed By Rachel Elnar, TypeEd Sonny Mouneu understands paint. “I started off painting motorcycles, doing custom paint on THE INSIDER’S VIEW OF DOWNTOWN Harleys and choppers, custom cars,” says Sonny. With the busy sounds of Main Street going CULTURE, FOOD, DRINKS, FASHION by, the sign painter, better known as Sonny Boy Last July, the team from Ferroconcrete and I Paint, stands in front of the Prufrock Pizzeria & THE PEOPLE WHO SHAPE IT. were drinking at the Golden Gopher, like we restaurant at the Regent Theater, giving the do most Friday nights. A few drinks in and we storefront a facelift. started professing our love for Downtown LA. SUBSCRIBE CONTRIBUTORS CONTACT US Neighborhood shops, restaurants and bars My love affair with Downtown started 12 For the latest finds: A FERROCONCRETE PUBLICATION Got a cool tip to share?: in the area are attracting downtown types with years ago when I moved into a loft on Main LADowntowner.com/subscribe — ferroconcrete.com — [email protected] a look that’s bringing back to life LA’s golden age Follow us on Twitter: Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director: Yo Santosa Feedback or just to say hello: Street. I’ve lived in Indonesia, Singapore, Ohio, from the 1920s. @LADowntowner Managing Editor: Scott Meisse [email protected] and Pasadena. These places never felt like “Prufrock wanted vintage phrases on their Like us on Facebook: Designer & Art Director: Mike Payne Looking to advertise? home, they felt transient. Downtown has shop windows, like what pharmacies and markets facebook.com/LADowntowner Assistant Editor & Staff Writer: Janica de Guzman [email protected] been good to me. I started my first company Writers: Linda Hosmer, Rayna Jensen, Cleo Tobbi used to do. Little sayings to catch people’s Ferroconcrete here — then früute, a cookie Photographers: Janica de Guzman, Michael De La Madrid, Eslee, attention.” Sonny designed the three sayings company and next came Commodity, a Alyse Gilbert, Kort Havens, Logan Havens, Samantha Romero, Christian Thomas together as one piece to make sure it looks fragrance company. cohesive. “Paul, Prufrock’s interior designer, sent That night at the Golden Gopher we me a lot of reference to feed my research. This IN THIS ISSUE wanted to come up with a project that old 1920s style, I have an eye for. Look all around would allow us to play a part and make a downtown LA, you’ll see the ghost signs still contribution to shaping the new Downtown. exist on the site of buildings. The style wasn’t EAST SIDE FISHERMAN’S KING EDDY It was a eureka moment. Let’s create a 4 6 8 super crazy, just solid colors with drop shadows.” MOTO BABES OUTLET SALOON publication that celebrates the culture, Sonny Boy got his start in Whittier and food, drinks, fashion and the people who Meet the women who ride LA’s A marketplace for seafood enthusiasts The bar seems to have struck a balance learned from Dennis Jones. “Dennis is from Los perilous roads on the meanest who don’t hold back when getting down between its predecessors: the 80s dance shape this new Metropolis. An insider’s guide Angeles Trade Tech College. When I was 12, machines in town. and dirty with finger lickin’ goodness. club, the skid row dive, the speakeasy. for the growing number of people who, like I watched him pin stripe bikes. My dad used us have decided to make Downtown our him a lot, and I got to watch him.” Sonny then home. We named it the LA Downtowner and began lettering, which he learned from watching it became our passion project for the summer MAP OF FORT AUNTIE EM’S others. “I’m more interested in the letterforms 10 12 14 of 2014. Two months later our first printed DOWNTOWN KITCHENETTE and spacing.” In an outer vein of downtown, one that issue hit the streets in conjunction with the A few of his downtown projects include The Food, drinks and things to do. has yet to be fully pumped with foot New comers from the land of Eagle Rock, launch the LA Downtowner website. Find your next stop. traffic, founder Jacqueline Sharp runs Auntie Em’s Kitchenette graces the Historic Regent Theater, Love Song Bar, Ledlow and the I think of the publication as a love letter her reclaimed furniture shop. Core with high-grade home cookin’. old Pete’s Cafe, Verve Coffee, Juice Served Here, to Downtown LA. Secret Headquarters and Orsa and Winston. Today I rarely leave Downtown. “There’s a lot of improvising on this one. This Everything I need is right here. But when I do is going to get a drop shadow. And I’m going to venture out, heading back I would abandon 16 DOWNTOWN 18 CAÑA RUM BAR 19 DOWNTOWN add orange in the flames so it isn’t so flat. I’m my GPS, drive towards the brightly lit tall STREET STYLE Tucked away in the bottom floor of one of EVENT CALENDAR trying to give it some life, make it catchy.” buildings and they will guide me home. This No two streets are alike. Discover the Downtown’s many unassuming stone buildings Upcoming events to refill your would be my favorite moment, when the city eclectic style of LA Downtowners. of a certain age, Caña is anything but the social calendar. kitschy tourist trap one might expect. welcomes me back. FIND MORE HERE: yosantosa.com sonnyboypaint.blogspot.com JUNE 2015 / ISSUE 10 — © 2015 LA Downtowner, Inc. WWW.LADOWNTOWNER.COM 4 5 out new locations for rides, though LA’s streets and maintaining a vintage bike are certainly EAST SIDE Yard The Selvedge for Pommier Scott challenges. “It’s intimidating,” says London, “but it’s become the building block to tackle other by: Photo MOTO BABES challenges in my life. These are skills you use in other parts of your life: balancing relationships, SISTERS OF THE STREET challenging situations. It’s invaluable, all the things I’ve learned from this club.” Written By Scott Meisse & Photographed By Kort Havens & Logan Havens “Riding downtown at night is fun to see the architecture in a different way, the buildings lit up at night. The 2nd street tunnel is a favorite, The East Side Moto Babes, an all-female also the loop of The Music Center, Disney motorcycle club, are not trailblazers. “Women Concert Hall and how 4th street is lit up, pretty have always ridden motorcycles, it’s nothing magical. Approaching downtown from the North, new”, says Stacie B. London, the club’s founder. seeing the skyline from the bridges, entering The former exhibition designer for MOCA didn’t China Town is so dramatic and awe inspiring.” grow up wrenching bikes but, “It was always While the ranks of the East Side MotoBabes something I wanted to do, always been a part of continue to swell, the club welcomes more my imagination”. women to join. “I feel like I’m just getting started”, On this day, the Moto Babes ride from says London. For many DTLA women, the East Glendale to MOCA, where riders trade stories, Side Moto Babes might just be the start of a life talk shop, and talk life. “There’s a certain intimacy, once only left to the imagination. camaraderie among riders. I wanted that”, says Yard The Selvedge for Pommier Scott London. She founded the club a year after Photo by: Photo she bought her first bike, a 1969 BMW R60US, FIND THEM HERE: facebook.com/eastsidemotobabes no less. “It’s constantly evolving. We’re always planning, trying to bring people together”. AND WATCH THE FEATURETTE: The ESMB are always mixing it up, seeking ladowntowner.com/moto-babes JUNE 2015 / ISSUE 10 — © 2015 LA Downtowner, Inc. WWW.LADOWNTOWNER.COM 6 7 or salad. The countermen will work in chaotic FISHERMAN’S harmony to get your order hot and ready. Fisherman’s Outlet is owned by family OUTLET operated Ore-Cal, the seafood distributor across the street who generates over $200 million in GARLIC BUTTER DREAMS sales annually and supplies those impossible to reserve 5-star seafood restaurants — so you Written By Janica de Guzman & Photographed By Eslee can relax, gastrointestinal confidence has stood strong at this dusty, offshore location since 1972. For $16 you can fill up on the Charbroil This isn’t a date place nor is it a place to Sampler — giant shrimp, salmon, and tiger impress clients. This is the Fisherman’s Outlet, a shrimp seeping over pile of golden fries. Every marketplace for seafood enthusiasts who don’t order comes with a tub full of garlic butter, hold back when getting down and dirty with Cajun, and teriyaki sauce, which is used at finger lickin’ goodness. This is what garlic butter your own gluttonous discretion. Keep utensil dreams are made of. etiquette at minimum, food tastes better when On 6th and Central, where dodging big rigs things get messy.