Siteline | On Summerland’s Western Fringe

Siteline | On Summerland’s Western Fringe

I parked in front of Sandpiper Liquor, one of the last vestiges of funkiness on Summerland’s main drag, which has undergone a wave of gentrification in recent years. The store reminds me of how my hometown of Huntington Beach used to be, before so much of Main Street got rebuilt as a generic strip mall. Someone once told me that Sandpiper’s proprietor also owns the building, protection against it getting the boot, but of course change may noneth…