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Article: Is Santee Alley L.A.'s most fashion-forward shopping strip?
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- July 1, 2008
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SANTEE ALLEY IS UNLIKE any other stretch of pavement in Los Angeles, Nearly 20 feet wide, it drops for three blocks through downtown's Fashion District, from Olympic south to Pico, The alley supports more than 200 merchants, immigrants who hail from Kenya, Lebanon, Korea, Pakistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Israel, Mexico, and Egypt, At around one every afternoon the Senegalese drift from the alley's mouth on Olympic for daily prayer, Santee gets the same foot traffic as Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade and is so cramped and loud and visually exotic, it can remind visitors of medinas in Fez or Tripoli, Its shops don't have front doors; they have metal shutters that ...