At the Knitting Tree in Inglewood, the mood is considerably lighter now that Kamala Harris is on a roll in the presidential race.
She had me at “emotional support chickens.” My friend Susan Kaufman was telling me about a yarn store in Inglewood where a multiracial, multigenerational crowd gathers twice a week to commune and knit. The store’s owner has created do-it-yourself knitting kits for overstuffed chickens with fanciful names like Baraaawk Obama, Hennifer Lopez and Paulina Poultryskova.
“More like ‘Cheers,’ ” added Ana Petrova, 83, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution was crushed by the Soviet army and ended up in Venice, where she and her husband, Peter, operated a business on Lincoln Boulevard, selling and repairing British cars. “At the barbershop,” said Camacho, “they just gossip and gossip, and we don’t do that here.” “Everybody knows your name,” said Petrova. “And sometimes we do drink.
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