Does anyone ever wonder why 176th Street between 58th and Highway 10 is always lined with parked cars no matter what time of day or night it is? Today I walked my dogs downtown around 8:30am. Between 58th and 57th there wasn't a parking space to be had at the side of the road. So what's open in Cloverdale at that hour? The market on the corner of 176th and 58th is open. But they have their own parking lot. Three cars were parked there. The only restaurant that is open at this time of morning is the one at the Clover Inn. I peeked in as I walked past and there were customers at one table. I also saw one person getting a haircut at the beauty salon. Seemed a little early for me for the hairdresser to be open, but they were. The drycleaner's was also open and had one customer. The only person I saw on the street was an older man of questionable status who was lurking in the bushes next to La Belle Vie (the former pawn shop). I somehow don't think he arrived by car.
Its too early for people to be lining up for the 1:30 matinee at the Clova. The Vault isn't open. The fish and chips shop, Sea Shanty, isn't open, even that tea shop that opened last summer next to the Clova isn't open this early.
The only place that's rocking at this hour is the Cloverdale Legion because of their pancake breakfast this morning. But they're around the corner and there is still plenty of room in their parking lot so people don't need to overflow out to 176th and walk that extra distance.
So there you have it. Nothing really open this early in Cloverdale, a couple of customers in the shops that are open, and not a parking space to be had on the street.
One of Cloverdale's unexplained mysteries.
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