This is the company owned by the young woman who gives me a spiritual inspiration on the bus home from Morelia, after my harrowing experience in Patzcuaro - read about it in that section.

The smell's killing us so it's time to do something here besides just look.

The accents are predominantly South LA at this market. Not much Spanish spoken in this crowd.

It's more good than bad because the bigger money can keep the organic effort going hopefully. It's always a fear though if not competition like this, certainly the massive big box effort poses a threat to cross-town historical city municipal market.

If the massive deep pockets of investors like Mega, Chadraui, Bodega (re-branded Wal-Mart) don't take down the city market, then perhaps nothing will and it will linger on for a few decades more.

Certainly comparing these breads and vegetables to the fruit fly breeding ground we encountered shopping at Bodega (aka Wal-Mart), it's easy to see why convenience doesn't always trump the freshness we've only experienced here.

Hint to casual passers-by - do not hinder sister Suzanne in her completion of this weekly transaction. (You have been warned ;-)