Article: Shelf-life: they're tiny, they're cramped, and we'd have them no other way. An ode to canyon stores.

AT MARY'S MARKET in Sierra Madre you can rent a video and talk about rattlesnake sightings. Up the road a chain-link fence guards a dam and the border of the Angeles National Forest. Back of the Stallion Market in Sun Valley, in the northern San Fernando Valley, just past the metal hitching post where riders tether their horses and the upturned wire bobbin that serves as a table, Sheldon Street peters out into open country. Although they re not always in canyons, we call them canyon stores, for that word conveys some of the hardiness and grit that distinguishes them. Often in actuality and always in spirit, canyon stores are outposts where the city ends and the brush ...

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