On this ordinary city block there is a bus stop, with about 70% of a bench still in place where it's bolted to the sidewalk. There is a hot dog stand. There is an Italian restaurant, and a bunch of traffic cones around a hole where some guys're doing some work on the pipes belowground, and a bank, and a black hairstylist, and a T-Mobile, and a Goodwill, and -

Between the Goodwill and the Walgreens, there is a curious shop that looks as out of place here as would a Mongolian yurt. No concrete construction, it's all made of gnarled wood with moss and little sprouting plants and a few mushrooms on it, and the glass windows are small and smoky, and the sign's scrubbed to obscurity to the point where it's not clear if it was in English to begin with.