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Article: MONTROSE HAS THAT HOMETOWN FEELING; QUAINTNESS MAINTAINED.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 1998
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Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer
Frank Roberts spent most of his career running a janitorial service, but about 22 years ago he gave it up to buy a candle and gift store in the Montrose Shopping Park.
``This place smelled so damn good, I couldn't resist,'' Roberts said in his shop, the Candle Tree.
Not much has changed at the shopping park in those 22 years and that's how Roberts and many of the shoppers who come here like it.
Not much has changed at his store either.
``We haven't changed anything but the rug,'' Roberts said.
Roberts, 78, likens the community of Montrose to Mayberry, the quintessential TV ...